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Analysis: Why F1 doesn't have doping scandals

While other sports have become mired in doping scandals, Formula 1 has been drug-free territory for most of its history. Kate Walker explains why. While doping in sport is serious business, every once in a while the stories verge on the ridiculous. For every competitive cyclist undergoing a full blood transfusion in their hotel room (perhaps not every, as there were quite a few…), a club-level racing driver will face a ban for that well-known performance enhancing drug, marijuana. A well-known performance enhancer in the field of competitive-eating, that is, but rather less efficacious when it comes to manoeuvring a two- or four-wheeled machine to high-speed victory. The majority of...
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