Oh, bullshit.<p>Look at how rotten soccer is from FIFA on down.  Look at US sports where those guys were oozing steroids out there ears with basically no consequences.<p>It&#x27;s just that cycling is kind of a working man&#x27;s sport in Europe and is sort of caught in a no-man&#x27;s land: it&#x27;s not wealthy enough to buy its way out of trouble like soccer and US sports, but does have enough money to attract cheaters.<p>When the scandal linked below hit, all the cyclists got caught and punished (rightfully so!), but people in other sports?  The judge has ordered the evidence destroyed!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operaci%C3%B3n_Puerto_doping_case" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operaci%C3%B3n_Puerto_doping_c...</a><p>This was roughly the time period when the Spanish soccer team was running away with all kinds of international success.<p>Cycling has surely had its share of problems, but it is also making a big effort to clean things up, with fairly draconian out of competition testing that would no way, no how be accepted by stars in other sports.<p>See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;veloropa&#x2F;status&#x2F;725359244443262976" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;veloropa&#x2F;status&#x2F;725359244443262976</a><p>And like the response says, the only reason soccer doesn&#x27;t have a bunch more is because they don&#x27;t test well.  If there&#x27;s doping in cycling, you can bet that, at 10X (at least) the money in soccer, there&#x27;s some serious doping going on there too.