Exactly right. I think if you were to be taking something orally you would wonder but to go through a systematic injecting program and just go along with it is mindblowingly dumb. I don't care who you are.
There is a financial advice book I have by Scott Mercier who was also an Olympian at Barcelona in the road cycling team. The book has a chapter that deals with his past life. He was picked to compete in Barcelona, no real star, didn't win a medal or anything but he was good enough to get noticed by US Postal. He got sent out to the Asian tours, a bit like 1st Division for cycling and once again did alright, won the odd stage but never won a tour but certainly did well enough to think he could cut it with the big boys on the European tour.
So, he got picked for the Euro tour and went out to train and couldn't up with the peleton at training let alone in a race situation. He got called aside by the team Doc after this went on for months and was sent home with a bag of 'vitamins" which he later knew to be EPO. He was given strict instructions to take them all in a strict regimen and to ride something like 2000km a week and then after a few weeks come back. He decided not to do it, but did the km's thinking he just needed to be fitter. Got back same deal, couldn't get within cooee of the rest of them. Once again the Doc gave him stuff, but this time told him what they were .... and he gave the sport away. Was replaced by Lance Armstrong.
But he was originally told they were not performance enhancing. Some days it was tablets he had to take, and some days it was injections and from memory it was the idea of injecting himself that he baulked at thought something wasn't quite right. That was 1997. I find it staggering that athletes put there still wouldn't speak out about or refuse to inject anything without taking the vial, taking it to their own doc and asking for some independent advice.