That assumes that the riders are the only possible culprits.
How about this: A rider gets popped for cheating - any sort of cheating - and it's game over for the balance of the season.
The team is also out for the season. Ignorance of cheating is no excuse. It's the team's job to know what's going on with the team members, so if they truly don't know about a rider cheating then they're too frikkin stupid to be on the tour in the first place. Pack your !@#$, hit the road, and we'll see you next year, maybe.
Sponsors are out for the season. If your company is putting up ridiculous amounts of money to sponsor a team, it's incumbent on you to make sure the terms of the contract are being fulfilled. If you sponsor teams that cheat, then you are sponsoring cheating and culpable. Out for the season. That includes sponsorship of additional teams, clean or not
The officials who should have prevented the cheating are fired. The biggest reason cheating is such a problem with cheating is because rules against it aren't enforced. The officials aren't doing their job. shitcan them.
In short, everybody involved is involved. One fails, all fail.
Start treating cheating like the crime people seem to want us to think it is and maybe we'll see an end to it.
How about this: A rider gets popped for cheating - any sort of cheating - and it's game over for the balance of the season.
The team is also out for the season. Ignorance of cheating is no excuse. It's the team's job to know what's going on with the team members, so if they truly don't know about a rider cheating then they're too frikkin stupid to be on the tour in the first place. Pack your !@#$, hit the road, and we'll see you next year, maybe.
Sponsors are out for the season. If your company is putting up ridiculous amounts of money to sponsor a team, it's incumbent on you to make sure the terms of the contract are being fulfilled. If you sponsor teams that cheat, then you are sponsoring cheating and culpable. Out for the season. That includes sponsorship of additional teams, clean or not
The officials who should have prevented the cheating are fired. The biggest reason cheating is such a problem with cheating is because rules against it aren't enforced. The officials aren't doing their job. shitcan them.
In short, everybody involved is involved. One fails, all fail.
Start treating cheating like the crime people seem to want us to think it is and maybe we'll see an end to it.