I didn't fully elaborate. Obviously you have to have something reasonable in your doping rules, but I think banned for life if you disrespect the process. Otherwise just allow doping. Athletes dodge meets and tests so they can dope and get away with it. If they aren't going to enforce it, just allow it, at least then the athletes would show up and compete. If they are going to enforce it, kick out completely the dopers. So sure, allow 3 whereabouts failures, but if you have 3, you're gone for good because you're not professional enough to be in the sport. Maybe you're not even a doper but you are making the sport look like it is full of cheaters.
Why are we afraid to get rid of talented athletes that damage the sport? If Tom Brady said the n word in an interview he'd be fined and suspended and maybe allowed back but if he did it a second time he'd be done for good. Who cares how talented they are if they ruin the sport? Same goes for coaches. Imagine if an NFL coach said whatever he wanted to in front of the camera...in fact it's already happened and many have been fired for running their mouth. Who is arbitrating that? Do you say whatever you want at work with no expectation of being able to be fired? Try lying on a financial form for a business and see what happens.
Team time trials (with exception of during COVID) can be done at a meet where other people not on your team are allowed to compete. Why let them set up a cultivated safe meet so they can qualify? Would the Chiefs play the Chiefs practice squad, wallop them, and then be allowed to play in the Superbowl? Make people compete, otherwise it's not a sport. It didn't bother me as much back in the day when an athlete would have a couple of key meets where everything was set up for them, then they raced the rest of the season, often losing or even bombing out. Manzano used to choke hard in some meets running something awful like a 4:07 mile and then show up medal a few weeks later. Now we see a couple cultivated efforts, complete radio silence, then nationals (unless they have a bye) and Worlds, and then nothing forever. Admittedly this is mostly an American problem.
Whatever, I probably shouldn't care at all, but track is the only sport I watch anymore...