You are browsing the tag archive for blood doping.

• Self-Injecting Blood Cheats Keep UCI On Their Toes
  June 11th, 2009
  

  by Justin Davis
  PARIS, June 11, 2009 (AFP) – Pledges to take the battle to the drugs cheats at next month’s Tour de France are [...]

• Spanish Judge Blocks Release Of Valverde Samples From Doping Affair
  April 18th, 2009
  

  MADRID, April 18, 2009 (AFP) – The Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) said Saturday a judge has again refused to hand over blood samples that could prove whether [...]

• Italian Prosecutor Demanding Two-Year Ban For Valverde
  April 1st, 2009
  

  ROME, April 1, 2009 (AFP) – Italian National Olympic Committee (Coni) anti-doping prosecutor Ettore Torri on Wednesday called for Alejandro Valverde, embroiled in a Spanish blood doping [...]

• Bernard Kohl Admits His Blood Doping Ways
  March 31st, 2009
  

  VIENNA, March 31, 2009 (AFP) – Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl, stripped of third in last year’s Tour de France for drugs, faces a maximum five-year prison sentence [...]

• AFLD Drug Chief Pierre Bordry Targeting Tour de France Blood Dopers
  October 8th, 2008
  

  BERLIN, Oct 8, 2008 (AFP) – French national anti-doping agency (AFLD) chief Pierre Bordry on Wednesday said there was “considerable evidence” of doping irregularities from blood transfusions [...]

• 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 [...]

• Scientific American: Game Theory, Doping and Cyclists
  April 9th, 2008
  

  Game theory helps to explain the pervasive abuse of drugs in cycling, baseball and other sports, says an article from the latest issue of Scientific American. In The Doping [...]