Floyd Landis speaks...

[OakLeaf]

Paint me cynical.

But the bottom line is that regardless of who was or was not technically breaking the rules, "doping" and biotech generally is regulated, not banned. I'm sure there's no one active in professional sport who's never had sport-related surgery; tweaked their body position in a wind tunnel; used caffeine, ibuprofen, lab-tested amino acid combinations or other substances that are legal in sport; etc., etc., etc. I mean, if all drugs were banned to all competitors, Lance would probably be dead, right (or more realistically, have never competed after his diagnosis)?

Sport is about rules. Rules by definition have a point at which they are completely arbitrary, and the sanctioning body just has to draw a line somewhere. The job of everyone on any team in any sport is to find a way around the rules. Sometimes people get carried away and go through instead of around. And then it's the sanctioning body's job to disqualify them, whether the violation is taking steroids or wearing a string around one's wrist.