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

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  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 Dilemma, key concepts are highlighted:

  An alarming number of sports—baseball, football, track and field, and especially cycling—have been shaken [...]

• Italy’s Eddy Mazzoleni ‘Oil for Drug’ Affair BAN - Two Years
  April 8th, 2008
  

  Join the forum discussion on this post ROME, April 8, 2008 (AFP) - Eddy Mazzoleni, third in last year’s Tour of Italy (Giro d’Italia), has been handed a two-year ban by the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) for his involvement in the “Oil for Drug” affair, the FCI said on Tuesday.
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• Operation Puerto affair reopened
  February 14th, 2008
  

  MADRID, Feb 14, 2008 (AFP) - The Operation Puerto blood-doping affair
  involving about 60 cyclists and which erupted in May 2006, has been reopened,
  Madrid prosecutors’ said on Thursday.
  A raid on the Madrid laboratory of Dr Eufemiano Fuentes uncovered doping products, bags of blood and codenames which appeared to link top athletes to a highly-organised system of [...]

• Fired Lotto doctor, Dr. Sam Vermeire defends himself
  December 21st, 2007
  

  Fired Lotto doctor, Dr. Sam Vermeire defends himself
  Dr. Sam Vermeire, who was fired from the Predictor-Lotto squad this week as he was blamed for Björn Leukemans’ positive anti-doping test result for artificial testosterone, has admitted that he prescribed Prasteron, which contains the forbidden hormone DHEA, to the rider. “I made a mistake, yes,” he told [...]

• Danilo Di Luca to appeal his three-month suspension
  December 16th, 2007
  

  The 2007Giro d’Italia winner, Danilo Di Luca has appealed his three-month suspension in the Oil for Drugs investigation. The 31 year old Italian from Abruzzo, is accused of using the services of Doctor Carlo Santuccione, has appealed the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) Disciplinary Commission’s decision last October to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) [...]

• Telekom (T-Mobile) doctors falsified riders records
  December 14th, 2007
  

  Telekom doctors falsified patient records
  By Susan Westemeyer @ CylingNews.com
  Former Team Telekom/T-Mobile doctors apparently faked patient data in connection with their doping activities involving the team’s riders, the Freiburg University Clinic announced on Thursday. In a press release, the Clinic said, “As part of its investigation, the Freiburg University Clinic has found in its electronic [...]

• The Inside Dope on Sports Testing
  December 12th, 2007
  

  I found this article in the Wall Street Journal and I thought it was an interesting read. It is really written as a
  The Inside Dope on Sports Testing
  By SKIP ROZIN
  November 28, 2007; Page D9
  With the announcement earlier this month that tennis star Martina Hingis would fight her positive test for cocaine use, sports [...]

• Liquigas is again visited by UCI doping controllers again
  December 11th, 2007
  

  Team Liquigas was visited for the second time during its off-season training camps by International Cycling Union (UCI) anti-doping controllers. The Italian ProTour team – in Benicásim, Spain, from December 10 to 18 – was subjected to blood checks according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The UCI had previously visited the team during its Italian [...]

• High Road signs with ACE for anti-doping program
  December 10th, 2007
  

  Team High Road’s anti-doping programme for 2008 will be run by the Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE), which also runs the program for the American Professional Continental Team Slipstream. High Road manager Bob Stapleton called it “the most comprehensive program out there. It is what the team needs and what the sport needs.”
  According to the [...]