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Originally Posted by Warrian  Do tell us the control differences between baseball/football and cycling. Which one is more strict and why? You seem to know what you're talking about.  |
Its hard to find out how people are tested in baseball and football and I won't pretend I know anything about it. For pro cycling people are randomly tested at their hotels in the morning( alot of the times the testers show up before they are even awake) and the winner and other randomly selected people are tested right after the end of the race. Test and samples are held onto for a long time so that they know what the normal blood cell and hormone levels are for each rider. There is also no Union of lawyers on the side of the cyclist. And finally the governments are spending time and money to catch people and charge them in court.
Oh and testing positive in cycling gets you kicked off your team and suspended for 2 years. The MLB has a 10 day suspension. Bud Selig stated this was their zero-tolerance program. According to a USA Today article I googled on steroid testing from 2005 the MLB said that 5% of test results in 2003 were positive yet no one was kicked out of the sport.
