
choppedshyt
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You do realize biological passports can now track hormonal fluctuations and blood values over time, allowing for indirect detection? It's not about catching one spike in a test, it's about long term patterns that suggest tampering. Athletes who try to game the system repeatedly can still be flagged.Most athletes be using HGH throughout the season since it's very rare to test for it and it can only be detected within 24 hours.
Your arguments is stuck in the 90s. Major reforms have since been implemented the refinement of the abp. The abp doesnt rely on detecting a specific banned substance, it monitors long term biological markers - hemoglobin levels, testosterone ratios, and reticulocyte counts - that reveal unnatural physiological changes. Even sophisticated tactics like microdosing or autologous blood transfusions are not invisible. They still leave detectable traces in these biomarkers over time. In fact several cyclists have been sanctioned based solely on ABP anomalies, even without testing positive for a specific drug.In sports like cycling or where much more sophisticated, teams use doctors to get scripts for PEDs, and to administer certain drugs to hide steroids from the biological passport. They use blood transfusions to beat the biological passport also.
Saying that a doctors prescription provides a loophole is pure cope. Tues are tightly regulated, any suspicious or excessive use of medically prescribed substances (ESPECIALLY for performance purpose) comes under investigation. Abuse of tues has been exposed in the past, but following the Russian controversy from a decade ago, regulations have tightened significantly.
It would legit be impossible for a team to systematically prescribe PEDs without raising flags within the anti doping system.
As for blood transfusions, modern anti doping agencies use both biological data and indirect testing methods to flag those practices.
Also large scale doping leaves behind both digital and human evidence. Most of cyclings major doping scandals unraveled not through testing alone but through multiple whistleblowers and investigations. The increased transparency, oversight, and media scrutiny in modern cycling make it literally impossible for teams to sustain such programs today. While no anti-doping system is perfect, saying that these methods are still successfully used in the big 2025 is based merely on outdated narratives
Muh elite athletes get away with it, meanwhile back in the real world:The thing is you can't reliably beat tests as a nobody in a sport (you), it's why they only ever seem to pop random 3rd worlders. You need an elite coach or a team to help you, you need insider knowledge, and in some cases you need a corrupt domestic drug testing organsation like in Jamaica or the USA. So this sort of sophisticated drug cheating is only for the genetic elite for whom it is worth it.
- Paul Pogba (France, world cup winner, ballon dor contender, played for Manchester united and juve)
- Rashard lewis
- Shawn merriman
- Wayne odensik
- pat mendis
- Jon Jones
- samir nasri
All from USA or other western countries, list goes on btw
I mean even if every athlete in the world did drugs I still wouldn't wanna go that path where I have to rely on drugs to be confident in my skills. Im already above average, I don't care to be pro I just like to play the sport that I loveYou do know that athletes also inject right? Be it peptides or steroids most aren’t natural but you only get to see ones that get caught like Pogba for example now think of possibly how many others there are![]()