What might a partially relaxed anti-doping regime in professional cycling look like?

Cycling has a long and agitated relationship with doping. Despite important efforts, doping in cycling is ongoing. Frequent calls for more surveillance and repression suggest a goal justifies the means runaway dynamic. Since anti-doping already today comes with important even though mostly unintended side-effects, discussing alternatives for the current harsh anti-doping policy based on a ‘zero-tolerance’ stance is warranted. I here discuss what a partial relaxation of the anti-doping rule within a framework of harm-minimisation might look like. By keeping only the health risk criterion to forbid or limit the use of doping technology, anti-doping would become better aligned with the crux of elite athletic endeavour, i.e. the quest for performance enhancement, and developments of human enhancement in wider society.