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• Pellizotti, Caucchioli Get Two Year Doping Ban
  March 8th, 2011
  

  ROME, March 8, 2011 – Italian cyclist Franco Pellizotti has been banned for two years for doping by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) along with compatriot Pietro Caucchiolia, [...]

• Caucchioli First Rider To Challenge The Biological Passport To CAS
  October 26th, 2010
  

  Italian cyclist Pietro Caucchioli, suspended for two years for a doping positive, will be the first cyclist to challenge the biological passport before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), [...]

• Pellizotti Acquitted of Doping For Insufficient Evidence
  October 21st, 2010
  

  Italian cyclist Franco Pellizotti, third in the 2009 Tour of Italy, was on Thursday cleared of any wrongdoing in a case of suspected doping. The Liquigas rider was suspended by [...]

• Bike Pure Present at ‘New Pathways for Pro Cycling’ Conference in Melbourne
  September 23rd, 2010
  

  Bike Pure will form part of a panel of representatives speaking at the forthcoming ‘New Pathways for Pro Cycling’ anti-doping conference in Melbourne this coming Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th [...]

• Lobato Suspended Using The Biological Passport For Two Years
  July 27th, 2010
  

  Spanish rider Ruben Lobato has been banned for two years for doping by his national federation based on irregular readings on his biological passport, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said [...]

• Serrano Handed Two-Year Doping Ban
  June 17th, 2010
  

  PARIS, June 17, 2010 (AFP) – Spaniard Ricardo Serrano has been handed a two-year ban by his national federation after he was found guilty of doping based on suspect readings [...]

• Caucchioli Suspended Two Years
  June 3rd, 2010
  

  Italian, Pietro Caucchioli, convicted of doping from abnormalities found in his biological passport was suspended for two years by the National Anti-Doping Tribunal of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). Caucchioli, [...]

• De Bonis First Rider Sanctioned Using Biological Passport
  May 27th, 2010
  

  GENEVA, May 27, 2010 – Italian rider Francesco De Bonis has become the first cyclist to be sanctioned for doping on the basis of irregular readings on his biological passport, [...]

• Pellizotti Called Before Coni For Doping
  May 4th, 2010
  

  ROME, May 4, 2010 (AFP) – Italian cyclist Franco Pellizotti was on Tuesday called before the Italian Olympic Committee’s (Coni) anti-doping prosecutor to explain anomalies in his biological passport. The [...]

• Team AG2R Responds To Valjavec Doping
  May 3rd, 2010
  

  Following the announcement by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) regarding the irregularities found in the biological passport of Slovenian rider Tadej Valjavec, the management team of AG2R La Mondiale has [...]

• Pellizotti Out Of Giro On Doping Suspicion
  May 3rd, 2010
  

  ROME, May 3, 2010 – Italian rider Franco Pellizotti of Liquigas, rated as one of the favourites for the Tour of Italy, will be unable to compete in the event [...]

• Even though UCI Snares Five Cheats Vast Majority Are Clean
  June 18th, 2009
  

  by Stephanie Pertuiset PARIS, June 18, 2009 (AFP) – World cycling’s anti-doping chief Anne Gripper said the vast majority of the elite peloton appear to be riding clean after months-long [...]

• Biological Passport Doping Cheats Suspended By Teams
  June 17th, 2009
  

  Two of the Italian cyclists identified in cyclings new rigorous anti-doping biological passport program have been suspended by their teams, officials said on Wednesday. The decision concerning the two riders, [...]

• Blood Passport Program – Judgement Day
  June 17th, 2009
  

  Written by: Myles McCorry Ag2R/La Mondiale team doctor Eric Bouvat was very angry last week when convicted doper, turned informer, Bernard Kohl, allegedly accused many other riders of using performance-enhancing [...]

• The UCI Catch Five Doping Cheats With The Biological Passports
  June 17th, 2009
  

  The UCI announced on today (Wednesday) that five professional cyclists would face doping charges based solely on the irregularities found in blood samples from their biological passports. Igor Astarloa of [...]