Originally Posted by Medium Size Dog

Over the years as doping scandals have come and gone I have thought that maybe there should be a distinct class in professional sports. I don't know, call it something like 'The Ghoul Games' where all the participants and all the spectators know that the athletes are doping as much as they want. We might see some impressive performances but we would know why and we would also have serious cautionary tales from seeing the wreckage caused, health problems, shortened careers, etc. In the TdF maybe have special jerseys for the dopers or a separate race. There are still are athletes throughout all sports that care about ethics and integrity. They would consent to being poked and probed and sampled endlessly but we would hopefully have some athletes for a while we could believe, or believe in, until the challenge to trick that system got too tempting and blew it again.