Damn. Cycling is not fucking around, anymore.
Yeah, you're right. Dimspace got into the anti-doping testing more intimately earlier in the thread. A lot of it isn't transparent to us. I had taken Serena at face value, but I think other posters already pointed out that even her central claim wasn't true:
The most ironic thing about this thread is that all the leftists guffawed at my reading that Serena was pandering to racism/sexism victimization tribalism, rallied around
@panamaican (who is not a leftist), insisted I was a fool for my nuanced insight into the allusions to Henrietta Lacks, and to my reading of Serena's exploitative strategy to shift blame to those policing her integrity. They all insisted that she wasn't pandering, and that this was about her "physique". I think very few knew Henrietta Lacks, or her significance, but even upon me illuminating this, they maintained this defense.
Yet, now that she has
openly embraced this strategy on the back of a childish temper tantrum, in response to a valid penalty for
cheating, have all of these leftists said, "Aha! Madmick was right. He saw right through her. Enough of this brat"? No, they've rallied around her errant allegations of racism and sexism!
It's mind-boggling. It's downright Pavlovian.