…and everyone in the cycling community is pumping themselves full of legal and illegal substances, disregarding their health, at the precise border of appearing clean during testing times/days.
You don't seem to understand. In the Olympia completions its a grey area and every one knows that they have to do it . Being illegal doesn't matter they don't have to appear clean .
With cycling competitions it's very regulated and they try to do substances that don't appear in the tests
https://www.velonews.com/news/road/circ-report-20-90-percent...