‘Education has helped. Plus many riders today weren’t even born when the past offences happened. However, we always have to be awake to fight against doping. It can never stop.’
The words of Nicholas Raudenski, head of the ITA, aka International Testing Agency, an independent organisation that implements anti-doping programmes for international sports federations. It was created in 2018 under the supervision of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Raudenski’s note of anti-doping optimism was struck just before last year’s Tour de France in a webinar hosted by the ITA. But how clean is professional cycling in the modern era?
Pragmatism rules
‘I feel it’s in a better place than years gone by but it’s always good to leave the light on,’ says Roger Legeay, president of the MPCC, from his farmhouse near Le Mans, France. The MPCC is the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Credible and is a voluntary cycling organisation set up in
