"Sport is about money and sponsorship. The crowds want to see fast times and world records broken. They want to see athletes pushing well-conditioned bodies to the limit and the authorities want to see full stadiums
It would be nice if everyone competed clean, but they know that won’t ever happen. The chemists will always be one step ahead of the authorities and those, such as Victor Conte, are very rich men.
The governing bodies’ solution to this is random drugs testing, occasionally catching a cheat and parading him or her before the world’s media.
A scapegoat is nice now and again: a top athlete, maybe someone with a little character, slightly arrogant perhaps.
And when they do catch someone, it’s important to keep them in the limelight for as long as possible."
