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| | Guardian Unlimited Sport | Cycling | Cycling: Does cycling take its drug problem seriously enough? |
 | | Cycling's governing body, the UCI, does indeed take this issue seriously; seriously enough to tackle banned drug use on three fronts, which are interconnected: prevention, control and repression, and anticipation. |
 | | In 2000, we introduced the "health booklet", which obliges professional cyclists to write down all medicines they use which may contain products on the banned list and that can be used only under certain conditions (for example: beta-mimetics, corticosteroids). |
 | | This forces the athletes to be open, and can be used for education by giving the example of top athletes' clean booklets to those who are using many medicines. |
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