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This Day in Doping: Ullrich mentor confesses

Paul Andrews, BI editor — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:19:29 +0000

Another chink in cycling’s institutional doping armor turned up with the confession of Rudy Pevenage, former T-Mobile manager, that he organized trips for former Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich to see Spanish blood-lab doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.

Underlining the “everybody did it” argument we ultimately feel Lance Armstrong will legitimately adopt, Pevenage says, “Back then I wasn’t under the impression we were doing anything wrong.” That he can say it with a straight face shows how ingrained — and tolerated — the doping culture was for so many years in pro cycling.

Key line: “But the Belgian also hit out at riders who, he claims, have spoken out against doping having also been clients of Fuentes.”

Pevenage named no names in this report, but you have to wonder if he hasn’t been visited by investigators following up on the Floyd Landis allegations.

This Day in Doping: About those tires…

Paul Andrews, BI editor — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:39:37 +0000

Kid gets busted for trying to smuggle pot into the country in his bike tire tubes. Getting 2.5 lbs. of mj into bike tubes sounds like a lot of work, and our first question would be why not go tubeless?

BikePure.org on closing the file on Jan Ullrich.

This Day in Doping: Needle marks and double embolism

Paul Andrews, BI editor — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:21:40 +0000

More allegations of doping against Jan Ullrich. More assertions of denial from Jan Ullrich.

“On Monday, German magazine Der Spiegel cited a police investigation report which states Ullrich went to Madrid 24 times between 2003 and 2006 to see doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, the man at the center of the Spanish probe Operation Puerto.”

Belgian cyclist Franck Vandenbroucke died of heart trouble, doctors say, but had needle marks all over his left arm.