Posted June 22nd, 2007
The doping authorities are getting smarter and more pro-active in targeting specific athletes.
With the Tour de France just weeks away, there’s a high stakes game of cat and mouse between a half-dozen so-called suspect riders identified by the UCI and anti-doping testers. Anne Gripper, director of the UCI’s anti-doping program, told the AFP that […]
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Posted June 17th, 2007
Landis continues to scale new heights in the shark jumping event. Time for another test I think.
In his newly published book, Tour de France champion Floyd Landis claims the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency spent so much money in an obsessed mission to nail him for drug violations, it passed on prosecuting other cases […]
One of the […]
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Posted June 16th, 2007
Ivan Basso walks the green mile.
Since I confessed my errors I have started to feel better with myself and towards my family. It is true that I deceived for one year because I was afraid of being uncovered, but it is human to make mistakes.
Now I will pay the consequences of my errors, but […]
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Posted June 13th, 2007
There’s an interesting perspective on the doping issue in Velo News that makes several notable points and at least one contentious statement.
Ask the Doctor.
For four years I’ve been privately interviewing professional cyclists who are in recovery from doping so that I might better understand what draws them to dope and what happens to them once […]
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Posted May 30th, 2007
Via Cyclingnews, Indurain on Riis.
I don’t want to detract from what Riis did, but my impression is that he did not overwhelm me, that it was me who lost the Tour. I did all I could to be in front and at the end I did not reach this goal. Riis and many others were […]
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Posted May 26th, 2007
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Or in the words of Bjarne Riis.
That also means that I did things that I shouldn’t have and I have regretted that ever since. Those were mistakes that I […]
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Posted May 25th, 2007
Bloomberg.
Riis News Conference. Denmark’s Bjarne Riis, who won the 1996 Tour de France with the Telekom team, will hold a news conference in Copenhagen tomorrow, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported. Brian Nygaard, a spokesman for the CSC team that Riis now manages, didn’t immediately answer a phone message seeking comment.
technorati tags: cycling, doping, riis
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Posted May 24th, 2007
Dietz, Henn and shortly, Aldag.
BONN, May 23 (CP) - In an interview with the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, T-Mobile General Manager Bob Stapleton has revealed that Sports Manager Rolf Aldag will admit to having doped as an active rider. “Rolf had a weak moment,” Stapleton said.
Any other weaklings out there? Say it ain’t so Eric? […]
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Posted May 20th, 2007
So, Landis was in the room when Geoghegan made the call to Lemond but didn’t hear it. It’ll be interesting to see if this holds up under further scrutiny. Either way, in the battle for hearts, we have a self inflicted wound that no amount of winning may heal. Increasingly Landis is looking like the […]
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Posted May 18th, 2007
Greg Lemond.
You hear a lot of these athletes saying we should take down USADA, we should take down WADA, we should get rid of the UCI. Today I say thank God there’s WADA and USADA. Because we all know what’s happening to the sport of cycling. I love cycling
technorati tags: cycling, bicycles, greg, lemond
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