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Right, but wouldn't you be better off by admitting it, then making amends to address it? At least you will be seen as having some shred of integrity. You're banned from the sport for a period of time regardless. IMO continuing to deny the obvious is way worse than addressing it head on and moving forward.

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>Right, but wouldn't you be better off by admitting it, then making amends to address it?

No? By denying it there's still a chance you'll get out of it, however tiny that chance is. That chance becomes zero when you admit it. A "shred of integrity" won't pay your trainers mortgage.

are there cases of anyone doing that and being allowed back?

Are there any cases where someone was caught cheating and promptly copped to it? I guess it’s hard to tell if that’s never happened. I’m truly intrigued.

Yes, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lorz They were initially banned for life. Maybe copping to it eventually let their sentence be commuted, hard to say.

There's probably more recent ones too, this was posted here recently so was on my mind.

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