By Paul Andrews, BI editor on September 30, 2010
Justice may be served if Andy Schleck winds up with the 2010 Tour de France title.
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged 2010 Tour de France, alberto contador, Andy Schleck, blood doping, clenbuterol, cycling doping, uci
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on June 25, 2010
This year’s Giro d’Italia established a new “post-doping era” baseline, but can the Tour de France live up to the Giro’s example?
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged AFLD, blood doping, cycling doping, french anti-doping agency, giro d'italia 2010, tour de france 2010, uci, world anti-doping agency
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 25, 2010
Reading between the lines yields a sense that the Armstrong case is getting closer to “official” (i.e., legal) status.
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cycling doping, floyd landis, jeff novitzky, lance armstrong, marion jones, uci
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 21, 2010
Unless an official investigation is opened and pursued, the Landis email may wind up whistling in the dark.
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, cycling doping, EPO, floyd landis, floyd landis accusation, hein verbruggen, john bruyneel, lance armstrong, uci
By BikeIntelligencer staff on May 7, 2010
Giro may be so clean that the squeaky you hear won’t be the riders’ bearings!
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, Giro d'Italia, uci
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 5, 2010
Our continuing roundup of cycling’s sad and seamy side . . .
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged anne gripper, blood doping, humanplasma, thomas dekker, uci
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
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 9, 2009
The French and the UCI are fighting again … bring out the Ritalin! UCI fires back at French anti-doping authority accusations: Did not! Did not favor Lance, Bert & Astana! But the French aren’t backing down. Saying they’re really really skeptical of 2009′s “squeaky clean” Tour de France, the AFLD announced they won’t play along [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged AFLD, bicycle anti-doping, uci
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on October 8, 2009
Team Astana, including stars Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador, got preferential treatment when it came to drug testing, two leading French newspapers have reported (linked by Bicycle.net). This is part of an ongoing snit between the UCI, the international cycling governing body, and French anti-doping authorities over the rigorousness of dope testing during the Tour [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged AFLD, alberto contador, bicycle doping, bikesnobnyc, doping, lance armstrong, Team Astana, Tour de France, uci
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on August 2, 2009
About that “Pure Tour” of 2009? It’s getting closer to dirty. Spaniard Mikel Astarioza’s breakaway seemed unreal on the 16th stage. Now it seems it wasn’t unreal, just unclean. The UCI has suspended Astarioza for testing positive for EPO in June. It was before the Tour began, so technically we still have a clean Tour. [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged BikePure, doping, michael rasmussen, Mikel Astarioza, riccardo ricco, Tour de France, uci
