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Jeff Gravley: Who Do You Believe?

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Until they solve the deep, doping issues in the self-propelled professional sports like track & field and cycling, just shut them down. Stop the races, start from scratch. Both are in shambles. I don't know who to believe anymore!!

There are different shades of lies...I have never taken steroids...I have never failed a drug test...I don't know how that drug got in my body. As a coach, I have never given performance enhancing drugs to any of my athletes. They are walls of words to hide behind.

Great performances in track and cycling are met with skepticism because of the cheaters who will do anything to make a buck. Cycling and track athletes have small windows of earning power so the temptation is there to take whatever they need to in order to maximize the cash flow.

There are those involved with track and cycling who have NEVER cheated and are equally as sick as I am about what seems to be a daily dose of doping news. We are not supposed to paint with broad brushes but it's getting harder every day.

I'll close with lyrics from a song.."Cheaters, cheaters never win. They always get it, they always get it, in the end."