The Painkiller That Cycling Wants to See Banned – Wall Street Journal

When the World Anti-Doping Agency published its 2017 list of banned substances last month, it was most notable for a drug that wasn’t on the list: a powerful painkiller called tramadol.

More surprising, perhaps, is the group lobbying for it to be banned: professional cycling, a sport wracked by doping for more than two decades.

Since 2011, cycling authorities have begged WADA to add tramadol to the list of prohibited…