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• UCI Says More Passport Doping Positives Could Be On The Way
  June 25th, 2011
  

  PARIS, June 23, 2011 – World cycling’s governing body warned on Thursday that several blood samples are undergoing expert scrutiny to determine whether blood doping or manipulation has taken place. [...]

• Paris-Nice A Big Doping Negative
  March 31st, 2011
  

  All of the doping controls that were performed at Paris-Nice in early March, came back with 100% of them with a negative result, it was reported by official sources on [...]

• AFLD Invokes Confidentiality In Armstrong Investigation
  February 10th, 2011
  

  The French Agency for fight against doping (AFLD) returned Thursday to a “secret investigation” by refusing to say whether it had sent samples to U.S. investigators on rider Cyclist Lance [...]

• AFLD Interviewed Regarding Armstrong
  November 17th, 2010
  

  PARIS- Members of the French Agency in the fight against doping (AFLD) is being interviewed this week in Lyon as part of a survey in the United States on the [...]

• French Anti-Doping Outlaws Called Back To The Fold
  November 2nd, 2010
  

  PARIS, Nov 2, 2010 (AFP) – France’s national anti-doping agency (AFLD) said it is once again ready to help play a role beating the drugs cheats on the Tour de [...]

• AFLD “very impressed” With Case Against Armstrong
  September 16th, 2010
  

  PARIS – The president of the French Agency for the fight against doping (AFLD), Pierre Bordry, said Thursday he was “very impressed” by the work of U.S. authorities investigating the [...]

• WADA Rejects French Testers’ Tour de France Request
  June 23rd, 2010
  

  PARIS, June 23, 2010 – The World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) on Wednesday turned down a request from the French Anti-doping Agency (AFLD), who wanted to carry out their own drug [...]

• AFLD To Ask For Additional Tour Tests
  May 12th, 2010
  

  PARIS, May 12, 2010 – The French anti-doping agency (AFLD) will ask the International Cycling Union and the World Anti-Doping Agency to be able to conduct their own additional anti-doping [...]

• Pat McQuaid: “In our view, the AFLD has no credibility”
  May 10th, 2010
  

  MONTREAL, May 10, 2010 (AFP) – Pat McQuaid, president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), said that “the French Agency (AFLD) has no more credibility in the fight against doping, [...]

• Pat McQuaid Not Worried By French Anti-Doping Snub
  March 6th, 2010
  

  PARIS, March 6, 2010 (AFP) – Cycling boss Pat McQuaid said Saturday he was not surprised by the French anti-doping agency’s (AFLD) announcement they would not be cooperating with the [...]

• Arrest Warrant Issued For Floyd Landis
  February 15th, 2010
  

  PARIS, Feb 15, 2010 (AFP) – An arrest warrant has been issued for US cyclist Floyd Landis, accused of hacking into a French drug-testing laboratory, France’s anti-doping authority (AFLD) said [...]

• CAS Dismisses Schumacher’s Appeal
  January 25th, 2010
  

  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 [...]

• WADA Mourns Death of EPO Test Pioneer De Ceaurriz
  January 5th, 2010
  

  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 [...]

• UCI In Fresh Spat With French Anti-Doping Agency
  October 29th, 2009
  

  PARIS, Oct 30, 2009 (AFP) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday reopened a war of words with the French anti-doping agency AFLD in blasting an AFLD report which [...]

• UCI In Fresh Spat With French Anti-Doping Agency
  October 29th, 2009
  

  PARIS, Oct 30, 2009 (AFP) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday reopened a war of words with the French anti-doping agency AFLD in blasting an AFLD report which [...]

• Contador, Astana Say They Have Nothing To Hide
  October 14th, 2009
  

  PARIS, Oct 14, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador played down the threat of a drugs probe that was launched a day before the presentation [...]

• Tour de France Doping Investigation Opened
  October 13th, 2009
  

  Paris prosecutors on Tuesday revealed that they have launched an investigation after the discovery of suspicious medical equipment including “syringes and drips” during the Tour de France in July. The [...]

• UCI Responds To AFLD Attack
  October 7th, 2009
  

  A doping inspector with the International Cycling Union (UCI) has backed the body’s claims that Lance Armstrong’s team were not given special treatment by UCI anti-doping inspectors at the 2009 [...]

• AFLD Chief Slams The UCI and Astana
  October 7th, 2009
  

  French anti-doping chiefs (AFLD) said Wednesday they were surprised at the lack of positive doping tests at this year’s Tour de France and said they won’t collaborate with world cycling’s [...]

• Team Astana And Contador Had Easy Ride On Dope Tests Claims Newspaper Le Monde
  October 5th, 2009
  

  The International Cycling Union (UCI) on Monday rejected accusations by the French Anti-doping Agency (AFLD) that they showed the Astana team preferential treatment over drug tests at the Tour de [...]

• French Minister Says UCI Must Not Waver
  July 16th, 2009
  

  VITTEL, France, July 16, 2009 (AFP) – French Minister for Sport Roselyne Bachelot hit out Thursday at cycling’s world ruling body, calling for a more stringent approach to carrying out [...]

• Tour de France 2009 Peloton To Face An Anti-Doping Army
  June 10th, 2009
  

  by Justin Davis PARIS, June 10, 2009 (AFP) – Potential drugs cheats at the 2009 Tour de France will face the biggest anti-doping army ever seen at a major sports [...]

• Canon and VeloGuy Trade Fire Over Lance Armstrong And The AFLD
  April 25th, 2009
  

  POINT by: VeloGuy Okay, so there you are, you are just getting back home from a 5 hour ride, and there is some guy you have never seen before standing [...]

• No French Doping Action Against Armstrong
  April 24th, 2009
  

  The French anti-doping agency (AFLD) said Friday it would not be launching a disciplinary procedure against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. Armstrong claimed this month that French anti-doping [...]

• Armstrong Accused In Doping Test In France
  April 11th, 2009
  

  This is a CNN video of the Lance Armstrong / AFLD doping test conterversy. Bicycle.net has the belief that this is really just a very weak attempt by the AFLD [...]

• Lance Armstrong Speaks Out In Video About The French and His CollarBone
  April 11th, 2009
  

  This is a video of Lance Armstrong talking about his broken collarbone and the recovery. How he is feeling and when we can expect to see him race again. He [...]

• Lance Armstrong Is Outraged Over AFLD Misbehaviour Claims
  April 8th, 2009
  

  American cycling legend Lance Armstrong has expressed his outrage at claims from France that he had not behaved himself during an out of competition drug test earlier this season. The [...]

• Armstrong Criticized For Drug-Test Attitude
  April 6th, 2009
  

  PARIS, April 6, 2009 (AFP) – A report has been complied on the behavior of American cycling legend Lance Armstrong during a recent out of competition drug test, the French [...]

• UCI and AFLD Reach AN Anti-Doping Collaboration
  March 6th, 2009
  

  The International Cycling Union (UCI) and the French Anti-doping Agency (AFLD) reached an agreement on Friday over drug-testing measures in the Paris-Nice stage race, which starts on Sunday. This new [...]

• French Lab AFLD Offers To Test Lance Armstrong’s Past Test Samples
  October 1st, 2008
  

  PARIS, Oct 1, 2008 (AFP) – France’s national anti-doping agency (AFLD) on Wednesday offered to test allegedly suspect samples taken from US rider Lance Armstrong during the 1999 Tour de [...]

• Tour de France Doping Czar Bordry Begins Search For CERA-Type EPO
  September 27th, 2008
  

  France’s national anti-doping agency (AFLD) is to begin retroactively testing blood samples from riders at this year’s Tour de France in a bid to find a type of EPO which [...]

• Tour’s Anti-Doping Chief Regrets Lack Of UCI Help
  July 26th, 2008
  

  PARIS, July 26, 2008 (AFP) – The chief of anti-doping operations at this year’s Tour de France has hit out at the International Cycling Union (UCI) over a lack of [...]

• Riccardo Ricco Denies EPO Use As Doping Chief Backs Controls
  July 22nd, 2008
  

  JAUSIERS, France, July 22, 2008 (AFP) – The threat of being caught cheating at this year’s Tour de France has proved a major deterrent, according to the chief of France’s [...]

• Riccardo Ricco Fails Drug Test At The Tour de France
  July 17th, 2008
  

  LAVELANET, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) – Italian rider Ricardo Ricco of Saunier Duval has tested positive for blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), the French national anti-doping agency (AFLD) confirmed on [...]

• Liquigas Team Now At Risk Of Tour Expulsion As Beltran Tests Positive
  July 11th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis AURILLAC, France, July 11, 2008 (AFP) – French police have taken Spanish cyclist Manuel Beltran, of the Liquigas team, away for questioning in the wake of the [...]

• AFLD Shhots Down Doping Report At Tour de France
  July 11th, 2008
  

  AURILLAC, France, July 11, 2008 (AFP) – The agency charged with carrying out anti-doping controls at this year’s Tour de France has played down a report that 10 riders are [...]

• Robbie Hunter Given Exception To Go And See His New Baby And Wife
  July 3rd, 2008
  

  New dad Hunter given special Tour treatment BREST, France, July 3, 2008 (AFP) – South African cyclist Robert Hunter, who rides for Barloworld, has been given special permission by Tour [...]

• Tour de France Anti-Doping Facts
  July 3rd, 2008
  

  BREST, France, July 3, 2008 (AFP) – Details of doping controls prior to and during the 2008 Tour de France which begins here Saturday: Who carries out the controls? After [...]