What sport do you think is the dirtiest?

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What sport do you think is the dirtiest when it comes to cheating and drug use? I’m torn between Pro Cycling and Pro Boxing.
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This is just my opinion and I could be waaaaaay off. I apologize if I offend anyone

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Since my deep dive into the rabbit hole of cycling the last couple weeks, I can’t imagine another sport that put more effort into cheating than these top cycling teams. To consistently travel around cheating while being rigorously tested is unreal. The level and lengths they go/went to blows my mind.

It was almost a sport in itself to just get away with it. I don’t think the sport will ever recover from what Lance and his era did. It’s crazy, if he’d just been a hair less of an asshole, he might have gotten away with it lol
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Although, the Movie Icarus about the Russian doping was unreal as well. I don’t know which sport is the worst, but It’s all fascinating.

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Talisker wrote:
What sport do you think is the dirtiest when it comes to cheating and drug use? I’m torn between Pro Cycling and Pro Boxing.
What exactly are you asking with “dirty”? Do you mean athletes shaving points or throwing games to guarantee a loss? Or officials fixing games like they had in the NBA a few years back? Professional motorsports teams with illegal equipment? That’s just an amusing strategy in NASCAR where if you ain’t cheating you ain’t trying.

All professional sports and most amateur ones are full of athletes using PEDS. That genie won’t ever be put back into the bottle.
7/18/2021 6:29pm
Read Floyd Landis' book.
It is absolutely staggering how dirty the sport was then. It really is a fantastic book


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Horse racing.
It doesn't even seem like there's consequences for cheating in horse racing. This was the 7th time the guy who trained this year's Kentucky Derby winner has been busted.
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My uneducated guess.....competitive eating.
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What’s that saying- There’s cheaters and there’s losers

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Look up Smokey Eunik.
He once got inspected post race.
They removed his fuel tank and measured its volume.

After the scrutineers decided it was good, he threw it in the back, and drove the car back to his hauler.

His roll cage was full of fuel.

He had tons of cheats.
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7/19/2021 9:45pm
Cycling, track and field and nordic skiing all have pretty bad histories with doping. From a physiological standpoint, those sports are the worst.

I've been in cycling for 30 years, pretty much from when I stopped racing MX. It's very hard to accept that what we see out of a guy like Pogacar is pure. The past few years we've all been told not eating is the new doping, being rail thin and lean like Froome and exploiting Watts/kg was the secret to success. And marginal gains, every little detail matters. Now a young Slovenian man-boy comes along, still carrying baby fat and not looking really crazy lean or ripped and completely dominating everyone. He wins the first time trial riding a relatively unaerodynamic setup in terms of bike frame and wheel tech. So much for marginal gains I guess.

I think I feel this way on the Monday after every Tour de France since 1998 (Festina affair).
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Weight lifting is historically the “ cheatist “
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Baseball is the worst, from small things to big things. They invented professional sports cheating. They hire known cheaters for their shows. The NBA players don't seem to cheat as much but they are one level below WWF on outcome determination.
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Not too many sports where you get paid big money is there no cheating involved. Just the facts. The better question is, what sport are not cheating lol.
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