Some folks argue that if HGH and EPO become legal for amateurs and pros in cycling (and lots of other sports) then everyone will be even, because the presumption will be that everyone’s juiced. There’s just one flaw: Everyone would have to dope — and some would die. And, in this response to a middle-aged reader considering taking EPO to aid his performance in master’s races, columnist Charles Pelkey states the obvious but timeless point that if you’re going to race, don’t you want to know you won — or even finished last — fair and square?

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