Checking out the Cycling News & Blogs at Cycling News & Blogs - Gym Chat Sports Message Boards you get a lot about the doping cases and athlete suspensions. The cycylists themselves, most notably Floyd Landis, have been saying that all the pros, amateurs - everyone - are doping and Italy's anti-doping prosecutor, 78 year old Ettore Torri is convinced: "I'm not the only one saying it. Lately, all of the cyclists I've interrogated have said that everyone dopes," he said to the Associated Press in his first interview in two years. Since Torri took over the position in 2006, champions he has prosecuted on behalf of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) include Ivan Basso, Danilo Di Luca, Alessandro Pettacchi, and Riccardo Ricco. He's following court cases in Perugia, Padua, Como, Mantova, Sardinia and Rome. More from Torri: [QUOTE]He said doping is more widespread at the amateur level, noting how the winner of this summer's Maratona dei Dolomiti - one of the country's biggest amateur races - tested positive. [/QUOTE] Solution 1: Legalize it - but not healthy (kind of reminds you of the new California law going into voting to legalize all Marijauna -not just medical Marijuna): [QUOTE]"The longer I'm involved in this, the more I marvel at how widespread doping is," Torri said. "And I don't think it will be eradicated. Because it just evolves continuously. There are new substances coming out that can't be tested for." Torri said legalizing doping would be a possible solution if that didn't harm the health of cyclists, noting that anti-doping authorities prosecute only a small percentage of offenders. "It's not fair when we single out one rider in a 100," he said. "If the other 99 have doped, too, but are not prosecuted, it's not fair."[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]"As long as doping is a viable economic option, it's always going to exist," he said. "It needs to be made so that it's no longer worth it economically."[/QUOTE] Technology trying to keep up with doping practices: [QUOTE]"Anti-doping is always behind the dopers. For example, anyone who used (AICAR) until yesterday got off," he said. "Every time we develop a test, we've already lost 50 percent of those who have doped with a substance."[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]"There are always ways to use micro dosages that are not discovered in tests," Torri said. "These trainers are really good at their jobs, and they're able to prescribe just enough of the drug that it remains under the banned levels." The current rules created by the World Anti-Doping Agency and the UCI's new biological passport program need to be simplified, according to Torri. "In some cases, rules complications favor the defendants," he said. [/QUOTE] via Prosecutor: All Pro Cyclists Are Doping - Cycling News - Roadcycling.com