"Given cycling's past the question is not an illegitimate one" - Christian Prudhomme honest about Pogacar doping doubts

Let's be honest, the real issue is most fans no longer care about doping, so there's little incentive to spend money on grossly underfunded anti doping agencies. Doping was never considered by the common fan to be an organized, widespread issue until the 90's and the Festina scandal. The Armstrong years were so polarizing because the idea of doping and unfairness was fresh to the layman. Some 20 years later here we are and doping discussion has just exhausted everyone. The fact positive tests are few and far between these days only shows the bleeding edge of doping science is so far ahead of bureaucracy and testing methodology, there's almost no way to catch up. The only thing we can do at this point is retain samples for the maximum of 10 years under WADA protocol and hope the science catches up so they can be retested in the future.