By Paul Andrews, BI editor on September 7, 2010
Who put orange juice in Andy’s orange juice?
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged Andy Schleck, spanish la vuelta d'espagne, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 20, 2010
Italian Alessandro Petacchi becomes the 2010 Tour de France’s first doping story, but it’s unrelated to the Tour itself.
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged alessandro petacchi, blood doping, cycling doping, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 20, 2010
If the Landis accusations are truthful, here’s how Lance could help the cycling world shake its black cloud and move on.
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cycling doping, Dave Wiens, david zabriskie, EPO, floyd landis, George Hincapie, johan bruyneel, lance armstrong, Leadville 100, Levi Leipheimer, steroids, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 19, 2010
Mark Cavendish cracked, and Tyler Farrar may see the light for the rest of 2010.
Posted in Racing | Tagged amgen tour of california 2010 stage 4, Mark Cavendish, Tour de France, tyler farrar
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 30, 2010
Having a baby and winning the Tour de France compared …
Posted in Lance's Chances | Tagged lance armstrong, Tour de France
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 8, 2010
Jonathan Vaughters made a careless comment about Lance Armstrong, who tweeted revenge. We like to see Lance mad because it makes him a better cyclist. Perhaps he will stick Vaughters’ comment on his top tube. Every time his head starts to sag a bit from fatigue, he will read it there and all hell will [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, gene doping, jonathan vaughters, lance armstrong, Tour de France
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 January 3, 2010
The recent passing of Bernie Hoffacker, founder of Palo Alto Bicycles, rekindled a lot of memories from our roadie days back in the ’70s. When the Euro revolution was just starting to sink in, Hoffacker’s Palo Alto Bicycles and Ric and Jon Hjertberg’s Wheelsmith a couple blocks away made Palo Alto one of the coolest [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged Bernie Hoffacker, eric hjertberg, greg lemond, jacques boyer, jon hjertberg, lance armstrong, palo alto bicycles, Tour de France, wheelsmith
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 2, 2009
Doping scandals aplenty, Velo News reports. They’re taking another look at 2008 Giro d’Italia samples for CERA, undetectable previously but now testable. The same may happen for the 2009 Giro and Tour as testing catches up with ever newer, previously undetectable substances. “The report also outlined a new blood doping practice which evaded current testing [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged Cadel Evans, cycling doping, euskaltel-euskadi, floyd landis, Giro d'Italia, michael rasmussen, Tour de France, uci
