This Day in Doping
Bicycling and doping, including CERA, EPO, blood doping, testosterone, masking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 17, 2009
Cycling News has a piece about irregularities in testing the Astana team, led by Lance Armstrong, er Alberto Contador. Whatever. The French anti-doping agency has warned the UCI “to treat all teams the same” after testing of Astana was delayed last Saturday. Interesting side note: The French don’t really trust the UCI to conduct doping [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged AFLD, doping, lance armstrong, Tour de France, uci
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 16, 2009
It was another listless day in the peloton today, but in one respect that may be a good thing. So far this Tour has been remarkable in one instance (and one only): No doping violations have been announced. There may be a lag factor here: Samples have to be collected, transported, tested and re-tested. That [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged cycling doping, greg lemond, lance armstrong, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 9, 2009
New York Times: Germany’s new cycling star hopes to put Germany’s doping troubles behind Germany. The question being: Since when are doping problems restricted or disproportionate to Germany? Statistically, does Germany even surpass other countries in doping problems? As a friend put it recently, doping in pro cycling is big news as long as it [...]
Posted in Culture, Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged doping, lance armstrong, synacthene, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 7, 2009
OK, something big may be going on here. Now Jan Ullrich, 1997 Tour winner and perennial runnerup to Lance during the glory years, is under investigation by Swiss authorities for doping. Ullrich has been previously implicated, of course, but the fact these guys are being dredged up from the past may be a signal that [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged doping scandal, Jan UIlrich, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 6, 2009
This Day in Doping: Lance Armstrong will be “particularly monitored” for doping violations throughout the Tour. Not that monitoring “particularly works,” given the rampant abuses, but the UCI wants to at least keep up appearances. The “particularly monitored” Tom Boonen was kicked out of this year’s tour for cocaine use, then reinstated. (Rightly so, since [...]
Posted in Culture, News Cycle, Rider Down, This Day in Doping | Tagged bicycle fatality, Bicycling magazine, lance armstrong, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 2, 2009
This Day in Drugs: Thomas Dekker is out of the Tour for doping…in 2007! Think the UCI honchos are trying to send a message here? Wonder how many of Lance’s old samples they have lying around, waiting for some new technology to analyze? BC Bike Race, Day 3: Morons are removing course flags to screw [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, This Day in Doping | Tagged BC Bike Race, cascade bicycle club, Dave Wiens, lance armstrong, thomas dekker, Tour de France, tyler farrar
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on June 23, 2009
You hate to see this: Former world downhill champion Missy Giove arrested on pot charges. On the other hand, this is just one more high-profile reason to legalize pot, tax that sucker, and make big bucks for economic stimulus and state budgets, free law enforcement for more serious and pressing matters, end the moronic War [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged alejandro valverde, downhill mountain biking, legalize pot, missy giove
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on June 12, 2009
Thanks to Bicycle.net for bird-dogging the cycling-illegal substances links. Self-injecting blood cheats pose a real problem for testing. This is where the cyclist freezes his own blood, saving it for a later date, and injects it on race day. Doing this with someone else’s compatible blood is generally detectable. With his own blood, well, that’s [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged Bernard HInault, blood doping, Culture, greg lemond, Laurent Fignon, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on June 11, 2009
Drug scandals are in the air over international cycling. Hmmm…must be about time for the 2009 Tour de France! Bernhard Kohl, recently banned for two years, quitting the sport entirely, weighs in on rampant corruption among the peloton. Lots of riders involved. “What were the French authorities going to do? Delete the overall classification for [...]
Posted in Culture, This Day in Doping | Tagged bernhard kohl, cycling drugs, greg lemond, lance armstrong, Tour de France, uci
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 26, 2009
That’s the lament offered by Bernhard Kohl, an Austrian cycling star and last year’s Tour de France king of the mountains winner, as he departs the sport after being banned for doping: “I doped voluntarily in a system in which you cannot win without doping. The weeks after [being caught] were tough for me. But [...]
Posted in Culture, Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged bernhard kohl, cycling, doping, Tour de France
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