By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 19, 2010
Alexander Vinokourov’s drug ban is over, so like Michael Rasmussen, he’s ready for another go on the Tour. Vino says he won’t be pursuing a title, but if something should happen to team leader Contador, we would assume all bets are off. The Tour de France 2010 is shaping up as the biggest Dopers Reunion [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged alexander vinokourov, blood doping, michael rasmussen, tour de france 2010, tyler hamilton
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 18, 2010
Lance Armstrong is dropping the idea of personal doping tests (our impression was that he never began them). And why not. He isn’t going to change anyone’s mind about the past by testing clean now. And as Joe Papp and others have revealed, there are so many ways to beat the system’s drug testing that [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cozy beehive, joe papp, lance armstrong
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 12, 2010
Over at Cozy Beehive, former pro cyclist Joe Papp unveils the secrets pros use to defeat anti-doping controls. It’s a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the cycling world’s subterfuge. One point I’d like to see Joe or someone else close to pro cycling address: Just how much looking the other way goes on. I’ve discussed this [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged alberto contador, blood doping, cycling, joe papp, lance armstrong, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 28, 2009
Bicycle.net quotes Zirbel to the effect that he doesn’t know what happened. Particularly when a new year is coming, and you want to have hope, you wish you could believe a rider who says he was wronged. But you have to think that the monitoring system is set up in a rigorous enough way that [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, DHEA, tom zirbel
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 14, 2009
Great post on BikePure re Joe Papp’s reformed doper saga. We linked to Papp recently for perspective on the Kenny Williams fall from grace. Kenny could do worse than follow Joe’s lead in taking the pledge. And thanks to BikePure for providing an alternative vision to our doping-besotted sport.
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged BikePure, blood doping, joe papp, kenny williams
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 11, 2009
DrunkCyclist truth squads Dr. Ferrari on doping (via Cycling Weekly). By the way, reading what Ferrari says in the Cycling Weekly story, you have to ask yourself: What was he smoking?
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cycling doping, dr. michele ferrari
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
