Kanak Jha suspended for missed doping tests

In fact, it would allow for a lot of things that definitely look very bad.

https://www.globalsportsadvocates.com/library/sports-attorney-whereabouts-failure.cfm

The existence of doping agencies runs completely counter to this.  People do want to know how the sausage was made, to borrow your phraseology. 

Outside of sports, even for things like movies, the existence and popularity of social media influencers like Derek from "More Plates for Dates" where he comments on whether certain entertainer bodybuilding results are achieved naturally or not shows there is some interest in the truth even if it isn't universal. The desire to know exists in a substantial part of the population. It is even more salient because there are people who want to emulate these stars so they need to have some rough idea of what is achievable through emulation.  Saying that no one cares how the sausage was made is IMHO an overstatement. 

With Kanak part of the challenge is that this is coming up after a period of good results.  In any case I hope for the best. The look is really bad though. 

Those are the things that make it not look good. 

I don't have a big problem with doping for table tennis players compared to other sports. Rather than needing big advantages in strength and stamina levels, I feel like doping just allows players to train the skills of the sport with less injuries. Just by training, there are so many repetitive movements that inevitably lead to wear and tear and injuries for different joints and muscles.

I'd be curious to know how widespread it is at the top level. I wouldn't be surprised if it was very common

A lot of modern testing of athletes is done using a baseline view of that the athlete is like and seeing how far your test results deviate from the baseline.  If you are not where you said you would be and it causes a delay in access, it can throw off the ability to build a consistent profile that shows your biological profile.  

USADA testing can be pretty frustrating and lots of athletes complain about it, especially in tennis.  Obviously we are all waiting to hear the details but it isn't a good look in the absence of information.  

I should've been more clear - the general public is very much anti-drugs as a whole, but the sports themselves are filled with drug users [or 'cheats']. The issue is that people want their 'heroes' to be clean and hate on them when they are not, which is even most movie-stars that are clearly juicing, claim 'natty.' The organizations in charge of the sports just want the stars and games to be played, and the drug agencies operate with that in mind...

I think it would be remiss to not research drug agencies and whose interests they are serving.

USADA has been incredibly shady WRT their servicing of the UFC, and the only members of the media with journalistic integrity are pretty unanimous in expressing that sentiment.

There's a reason none of the high profile fighters pop, and if they do, they invent bogus stuff like 'pulsing' in such a way that's ridiculed by anyone with half a brain cell, and obviously someone like Derek shits on them for [Jon Jones].

The care is more virtue signalling / public wanting their athletes to be clean, but the athletes are not clean and the organizations [from the ATP to the UFC to the NFL] not wanting to clean up the sport, rather just maintain the image that the sport is clean so the public isn't irate, the stars have a good image and the show goes on.

In some sports (cycling) almost everyone cheats.

Some people are quick to accuse others of cheating, because if they were in the same position, they would cheat.

There are others that think that to get to the highest level in a sport, competitors have to cheat.

Some think that if everyone does it and the rule is not enforced (boosting) it's not really cheating.

I find at times if my opponent calls the score wrong in my favor and I'm not sure, or I don't question it, I will lose the next few points, feeling I may have cheated.

The biological profile I think you can find n article on and it pretty much detects anything.   Any major drug consumption will have a hormonal effect that deviates significantly from your normal profile. Doesn't matter what it is.

Of course if commercial interests don't want the most stringent testing, then it doesn't matter.