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Seconded, there is no clear line between banned drugs that help you cheat and drugs that fix medical conditions. There are drugs that are allowed if you have a doctor's note, and there are drugs that you can use only up to a certain amount.

Asthma meds for cycling, some of which are steroids, are one of the more popular examples:

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/the-truth-abo...

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WADA rules do not ban a drug just because it is performance enhancing. Otherwise caffeine would be banned.

Two out of three factors have to be present to ban a drug:

- be performance enhancing - present a health risk - violate the spirit of sport

The third one is a bit harder to define but there is a WADA code defining the spirit of sport.

Most banned drugs are banned because of the first two.

> Two out of three factors have to be present to ban a drug:

> - be performance enhancing - present a health risk - violate the spirit of sport

There also are drugs banned that mask the use of performance enhancing drugs. You could call that “violate the spirit of the sport”, but that’s so vague a term it could cover anything.

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