My bias in Floyd’s favor is offset by the familiarity I developed with performance-enhancing drugs while in high school; I know the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs is far more prevalent than is being reported… If Floyd used, it wouldn’t be shocking. Cycling has been dirty for over two decades.
Having said that, I have serious and well-founded doubts that organization ssuch as the WADA or UCI can be effective at making determinations about drug use, at least not without checks and balances and good independent oversight.
My understanding of the underlying issues goes beyond the mere anecdotal. I’ve worked professionally as a researcher in gene toxicology at the NIEHS and later helped start two organizations in the US federal government that evaluate governmental test method standards both in the US and internationally.”
