Is the world's oldest profession prostitution or cheating? Cheating in sport started as soon as people cared about the outcome, only now with ubiquitous data sources has it become increasing hard to succeed at. Cheaters hope they fly just between the fine line of amazement in their outcome and interest that would invoke investigation and lead to their downfall. The bank robber whose holdup note is written on the back of their deposit slip never thinks they'll be caught, so is the athlete who fails to consider the power of the data and dedication of slighted peers to unearth it.
I'm not in disbelief that she was caught, only that so many others weren't... Yet.
I find part of the entertainment value of sport to be the cat-and-mouse between two factions: journalists and competitors, and cheaters. No matter how much we deny it, this spectacle is the "meta-race" that gives these events real human drama.
