Cycling is a sport with anti-doping culture

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Cycling may be closer to an "anti-doping" subculture that pro bodybuilding but it still has a long way to go...

Thirteen years after the Festina affair rocked the sport, cycling has been the first sport to introduce a test to detect the banned blood-boosting erythropoietin (in 2001) and created the biological passport in 2008, prompting a cultural change, according to Pat McQuaid.

"Bit by bit, cycling has been changing from a sport which has a doping culture to a sport which has an anti-doping culture," the Irishman told a press conference at the world championships, which end on Sunday with the men's road race.

Cycling now a sport with anti-doping culture, says McQuaid - Times Of India