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The results may provide a contribution for further research on doping as well as for policymakers in the fight against doping in sport (both medical and financial).
No longer is it positive evidence of doping that is punishable, but what becomes punishable is an abnormality, in the cyclist’s location, or their body, which suggests a probability that the invisible act of doping may have occurred.
With the help of Bayesian logic, it can be shown that the interpretation of doping test results is far from trivial with reference to individual athletes and single doping tests, but that these tests can reveal results which can be fairly dependable when it comes to estimating the prevalence of doping.
There is conclusive evidence that some doping agents are anabolic and ergogenic.
We argue that a growing body of evidence indicates that anti-doping regulation under the World Anti-Doping Agency is sometimes arbitrary and too often not grounded in a solid foundation of evidence.
Due to numerous structural similarities between the policy of anti-doping and UEFA’s intended policy to fight financial doping, in particular the latter may learn from former experiences.

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