What are your thoughts about the recent events of PEDs in Triathlon?

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Greg Bennett · Answer

What are my thoughts about the recent events of performance enhancing drugs in triathlon? Wow. Well, let's be specific. Colin Chartier of the US was recently caught for taking EPO, and he admitted to taking EPO to enhance his performances. I don't know that he's admitted everything yet. And Colin, I think you might want to re-look at everything. But I think there's still more to come. In terms of what I've seen, the backlash from the sport has been spot on. From his peers in the triathlon community, everybody's hurt, they're outraged, they're disappointed. And fair enough. As a fan of the sport, and somebody that did the sport for his entire life, I was tremendously disappointed. I truly believe, I genuinely believe, our sport is very, very clean. I really do. As an athlete, there was a professional athlete for 27 years, I never not once saw any drugs, I was never offered any drugs, I wouldn't have known how to get any drugs. It was a very clean sport for me. And so the idea that performance enhancing drugs come into the sport, I don't even understand it. But look, I also have a healthy skepticism in the sport. When you see something, when you see a performance that's beyond what you've seen before from that athlete, that's significantly beyond. Or when you see a performance in the world of triathlon that just blows your mind. I think it's okay to have a healthy skepticism. And I think if the drug testers want to get this right, and they want to get the cheats out of here, they need to talk to the athletes. Talk to the athletes, who should we be drug testing? As an athlete, you know. I could have told you a couple of people during my time that I was pretty certain were doing something. But they weren't tested, or whatever. And I think we have that in our sport now. I'm sure there's a few. And I'm sure you're listening to me and you even know who the few are. It's okay to have a little bit of healthy skepticism.

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"What are your thoughts about the recent events of PEDs in Triathlon?"