CAS Dismisses Schumacher’s Appeal
World sport’s top court CAS on Monday rejected an appeal by disgraced German cyclist Stefan Schumacher against a two-year ban for doping, related to offences at the 2008 Tour de France.
Schumacher tested positive for the banned blood booster EPO CERA both at the Tour de France and Olympic Games in [...]
WADA Comment On Current Anti-Doping Strategies
The World Ant-Doping Agency (WADA) have stated today that greater collaboration with drug companies could be one of the biggest weapons in combating cheating in sport. WADA Director General David Howman said “I think this year will provide further results in that area.” Riders who were using the new blood booster CERA, thought that the [...]
WADA Mourns Death of EPO Test Pioneer De Ceaurriz
PARIS, Jan 5, 2010 (AFP) – World Anti-Doping Agency chiefs offered their condolences Tuesday following the death of Jacques de Ceaurriz, a leading light in the fight against doping in sport.
The head of the Chatenay-Malabry laboratory near Paris, De Ceaurriz’s death at the age of 60 on Tuesday was [...]
A Discussion About EPO
A Discussion about EPO with Award Winning Renal Specialist Dr JohnHarty:
Dr John Harty is a Consultant nephrologist at Daisy Hill Hospital in Ireland. He is a renal (Kidney) specialist, Consultant of the year in 2008 and himself a cyclist. Bike Pure asked Dr Harty to clarify the unfortunately common, illegal doping abuse of Erythropoietin (EPO).
Bike [...]
Tom Zirbel Tests Positive For DHEA
Tom Zirbel who has raced with the Bissell Pro Cycling team has had a “A” test come back positive for the banned substance DHEA. Zirbel was scheduled to race with Team Garmin-Transitions for the 2010 race season but was surprisingly missing from the roster when it was announced. It left Bicycle.net wondering [...]
Blood Doping Kits Found With Astana At Tour de France
PARIS, Dec 23, 2009 (AFP) – Blood doping kits were discovered in a search of medical equipment belonging to the Astana team during this year’s Tour de France.
Blood transfusions are banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The find, which was first reported by French newspaper Le Monde, [...]
Clearidium and Team Saxo Bank Part Ways
Rasmus’ company Clearidium will work directly for the UCI next year and it is therefore not possible for Rasmus to continue the private programs he initiated.
Autumn 2006 Bjarne Riis and Rasmus Damsgaard started the first private anti-doping program based on information and the 12-4-4 concept – 12 blood profiles, 4 steroid profiles and 4 EPO [...]
US Cyclist Mock Hit With Cannabis Violation
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Dec 17, 2009 (AFP) – David Mock, a 32-year-old American cyclist, accepted a three-month doping ban after testing positive for a marijuana metabolite in August, the US Anti-Doping Agency announced Thursday.
Mock tested positive for the banned substance Carboxy THC, a cannabis class drug, in a urine [...]
Prosecutor Asks For Three-Year Doping Ban For Di Luca
Italy’s anti-doping prosecutor on Thursday asked the Italian Olympic Committee’s anti-doping tribunal to hit former Tour of Italy winner Danilo Di Luca with a three-year ban.
Di Luca tested positive for the banned blood-booster EPO twice during May’s Tour of Italy, in which he finished second behind Russian Denis [...]
Doping Consequences: A Case Study With Joe Papp
by Myles McCorry
It is said that a cat burglar designs the best security system and for this reason Bike Pure sought the reformed doper Joe Papp to help us define solutions for the problem our wonderful sport has with drugs.
On May 7, 2006, at the UCI Tour of Turkey, Papp was found positive for metabolites [...]
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