OFFICIAL: UCI bans controversial carbon monoxide rebreathing "to protect the health of riders"

Of course not. Also, there's no need for sarcasm.

There’s also no need for baseless accusations. Argue with some facts, evidence, logic or even just give is criteria on which your thinking is based and start a real discussion. Otherwise your statement/opinion is no more relevant or useful than the thousands of similar equally pointless or those of people telling us the date they think the world will end, which at least are never in the past, unlike punishment for doping.

Not 20 years ago, we had Lance Armstrong, Ulrich, and before that Anquetil, Merckx and Hinault. Whatever they claim, all were dopers (before stricter control). The Tour has only gotten harder. A lot. And you think superhumans like Pogacar (and, for that matter, the entire UAE team) and Vingegaard (to name just 2) tapdance through 21 days of this as if it's a flat parking lot?

I’m sorry, I’ve been around a long time and I am gobsmacked at the speeds ALL half serious cyclists ride at today and for sure none of the amateurs have access to this so-called top secret elusive product or technique, if they had, someone would spill the beans. Can you imagine how much a desperate ex pro like Wiggins or whoever could sell his story to some outlets for if he could provide even half-verifiable information about how top teams evade getting caught? It’s gotten a lot harder and riskier to count on collective omertas, too much money involved in different directions today.

Why should cycling not speed up when running still does, the whole range from 60m to marathon and ultra even though far more is invested in technology for cycling and there is far more to be gained technologically from efficiency, especially aerodynamics. Look qt the speeds or distances today of tennis, golf, base or cricket balls, look at speeds us amateurs reach compared to the historical elite, I’m approaching 60 and when the guys in front push us, we still reach average race speeds over 40, on water and often no food for lack of time or hunger at breakfast. It’s not like the peleton suddenly improved by 5% and it’s not like the top guys are riding the others into the ground my abnormal margins, proportionally everything’s the same with maybe a 1km/h increase above the historical growth in speed over the past decade, that doesn’t sound like a sudden discovery but collective change in approach towards preparation, training racing strategy, lifestyle and hygiene, changed approach to incentivising riders for exciting fans more, etc.
In the past I, having come from a different sport, I was always a bit surprised at how unprofessional cyclists were about training and how unserious the talent promotion seemed to be, many young riders being destroyed prematurely and many being selected more through networking than a form of meritocracy, the sad side effect of it being considered more a team than individual sport even though ironically we’re only interested in that one top performer of a team. If cycling didn’t have such a heavy doping burden to carry around, we wouldn’t even be having this discussion in this era.