> If everyone is doping, then you could argue it's still a fair playing field, just with a higher skill ceiling. No, because now you have at least two contests

> If everyone is doping, then you could argue it's still a fair playing field, just with a higher skill ceiling. No, because now you have at least two contests in parallel: the race event for the cyclist and through-the-year "doping and not getting caught" for medical/management team. For example one prominent olympic level swimmer was disqualified because they failed to appear for testing multiple times. Why would one do that just to come back after disqualification?