This is more or less an aside but the snide generalisation about doping in cycling piss me off as they're usually made by people who don't follow things that closely or haven't bothered investigating things like why so many athletes get asthma, which is actually interesting if you look into it.
Seb Coe was on Five Live this morning praising the new process that is now in place in athletics to catch and convict the dopers, how transparent it all is and how the IAAF is now talking openly about doping in Athletics and how everyone can see what they are up to. How many cases are going through this process at the moment, I hear you ask. Well I'll tell you. A 120. A hundred and farking 20! They're probably all Russians I hear you say. Well, you're not completely wrong, half of them are. But a hundred and farking 20, Olympic level athletes, that's a joke!
Are there any dirtier sports than athletics? Well you might want to cast your eye towards Rugby. But nothing is sacred, swimming, weightlifting is the obvious one, in fact virtually any sport. Cycling is not clean but it's gone a long way from where it was and I would even suggest, it's ahead of other sports. Of course Sir Coe would like to think he's leading the way but he's wrong, otherwise Kenyan athletes would not be top of the running pile.
