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Dekker Gets Two Year Suspension
Thomas Dekker has been handed a two year suspension for an EPO doping positive from a sample taken from him last year. Dekker has his racing license in Monaco, which is why his suspension was handed down from the Monaco Cycling Federation.
Last year the UCI retested a sample from Dekker that was taken from [...]
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- Disgraced Di Luca Handed Handed Fine And Two-Year Ban
February 1st, 2010ROME, Feb 1, 2010 (AFP) – Italian Danilo Di Luca was handed a two-year doping ban and a hefty fine by the Italian Olympic Commitee (CONI) on Monday.
Di Luca, the 2007 Tour of Italy champion, finished second to Russia’s Denis Menchov in a thrilling finish to [...] - Vania Rossi Positive For CERA
January 29th, 2010CONI has confirmed that Vania Rossi (partner of Riccardo Riccò) has tested positive for EPO CERA throught heir website today. The test was conducted at the Italian Women’s National Cyclo-Cross Championships where Rossi placed second on January 10, 2010.
Rossi gave birth to the couples baby boy recently, and then made speedy return [...] - CAS Dismisses Schumacher’s Appeal
January 25th, 2010World 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 Mourns Death of EPO Test Pioneer De Ceaurriz
January 5th, 2010PARIS, 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
January 2nd, 2010A 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 [...] - Blood Doping Kits Found With Astana At Tour de France
December 23rd, 2009PARIS, 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, [...] - Prosecutor Asks For Three-Year Doping Ban For Di Luca
December 17th, 2009Italy’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 [...] - Bosisio Pleads Innocence In Doping Case
November 23rd, 2009ROME, Nov 23, 2009 (AFP) – Italian cyclist Gabriele Bosisio pleaded his innocence at a hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee’s Anti-doping prosecutor on Monday.
The 29-year-old LPR rider was caught by an out-of-competition test in September which detected traces of the banned blood-booster EPO.
“I’ve never taken EPO and I repeat that I am innocent,” [...] - Austrian Cyclist Pfannberger Banned For Life
November 22nd, 2009VIENNA, Nov 21, 2009 (AFP) – Austrian cyclist Christian Pfannberger has received a lifelong ban for repeated doping offenses, the national anti-doping agency announced on Saturday.
Pfannberger, 30, tested positive in March for the banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin) as he prepared to start in the three-week Tour of Italy as part of the Russian [...] - Rebellin To Be Stripped Of Olympic Silver Medal
November 17th, 2009PARIS, Nov 18, 2009 (AFP) – Veteran Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin who tested positive for the new generation of EPO (CERA) at the 2008 Olympic Games is to be stripped of his road race silver medal the sport’s governing body the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced on Tuesday.
The UCI confirmed that the International Olympic [...] - Spanish Rider Provisionally Suspended For Doping
November 6th, 2009GENEVA, Nov 5, 2009 (AFP) – World cycling’s ruling body the UCI said Thursday it has provisionally suspended Spanish cyclist Alberto Fernandez De La Puebla Ramos after he failed a doping test.
“The decision to provisionally suspend this rider was made in response to a report from the WADA accredited laboratory in Lausanne indicating an [...] - Spanish Rider Provisionally Suspended For Doping
November 5th, 2009GENEVA, Nov 5, 2009 (AFP) – World cycling’s ruling body the UCI said Thursday it has provisionally suspended Spanish cyclist Alberto Fernandez De La Puebla Ramos after he failed a doping test.
“The decision to provisionally suspend this rider was made in response to a report from the WADA accredited [...] - Another Italian Cyclist Caught Using EPO
October 7th, 2009ROME, Oct 7, 2009 (AFP) – A day after it was revealed that Italian Gabriele Bosisio had failed a dope test, his countryman Francesco De Bonis has also been flagged as an EPO user.
De Bonis, who rides with the Diquigiovanni team, tested positive for the new-generation EPO called Cera [...] - Team Silence Sack Dope Cheat Dekker, And Change Team Name
October 1st, 2009BRUSSELS, Oct 1, 2009 (AFP) – Belgian cycling team Silence announced they had sacked Dutch drugs cheat Thomas Dekker on Thursday.
The team run by Marc Sergeant, and which has claimed two Tour de France runner-up places in three years thanks to Austrlian Cadel Evans, also announced they will change [...] - Dekker B-Sample Comes Back Positive
September 30th, 2009The B-sample requested by Dutch cyclist Thomas Dekker has confirmed his positive drugs test for the banned blood-booster EPO, the ANP news agency reported on Wednesday.
Dekker has accepted the findings and is awaiting his sanction, ANP reported.
The 24-year-old Silence rider risks a four-year ban.
The sample was [...] - UCI Suspends Tour of Portugal Champion For Doping
September 18th, 2009GENEVA, Sept 18, 2009 (AFP) – Cycling’s world ruling body said Friday it has suspended recently-crowned Tour of Portugal champion Nuno Ribeiro and two of his teammates from racing after they tested positive for doping.
Ribeiro and Liberty Seguros teammates Hector Guerra and Isidro Nozal had tested positive for the banned [...] - UCI Suspends Biondo – Tour of Denmark Runner-Up For Doping
September 14th, 2009PARIS, Sept 14, 2009 (AFP) – Cycling’s world ruling body on Monday suspended Italian Maurizio Biondo, of the Ceramica Flaminia team, for doping after an adverse finding for the banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin).
Biondo won the time trial at last month’s Tour of Denmark, where he finished second overall.
A [...] - Di Luca Screaming Foul Over Positive CERA Tests
August 26th, 2009Italian cyclist Danilo Di Luca on Wednesday claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy after twice testing positive for banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin) during May’s Tour of Italy.
Di Luca finished second in the event he previously won in 2007 but returned positive tests for the new-generation EPO [...] - WADA Labs Corrupted By Disgraced Austrian, Claims Kohl
August 14th, 2009VIENNA, Aug 14, 2009 (AFP) – Disgraced Tour de France cyclist Bernard Kohl said Friday that scientists working in laboratories accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) were bribed by his former manager, the alleged head of a doping network.
Austrian Stefan Matschiner, who managed the careers of several top [...] - Mikel Astarloza Fails Doping Test
July 31st, 2009GENEVA, July 31, 2009 (AFP) – Spanish cyclist Mikel Astarloza, who won the 16th stage of the Tour de France, has been suspended after he failed an out of competition doping test, international cycling’s governing body said Friday.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) said it had informed Astarloza of the [...] - Tour Chief Hails Clean Race, But Says The Doping War Not Over
July 27th, 2009by Justin Davis
PARIS, July 27, 2009 (AFP) – Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme was understandably cautious after celebrating a scandal-free 96th edition here Sunday.
For the first time in living memory the world’s biggest bike race avoided being dragged through the mire by drugs cheats.
On this year’s [...] - Di Luca Suspended After Failing Drug Tests At Tour of Italy
July 22nd, 2009LE GRAND BORNAND, France, July 22, 2009 (AFP) – Italian rider Danilo Di Luca has been provisionally suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Wednesday after failing two drug tests for EPO CERA during the Tour of Italy.
The 33-year-old LPR team leader, who is not competing in the [...] - UCI Suspends Two Spanish Cyclists On Doping Tests
July 17th, 2009GENEVA, July 17, 2009 (AFP) – World cycling’s governing body said Friday that Spanish cyclists Inigo Landaluze and Ricardo Serrano have been suspended after traces of illicit drug CERA were found in their blood samples recently.
“The decision to provisionally suspend the two riders was made in response to reports [...] - Italian Ploice Arrest Failed Pro Aleksandar Nikacevic In Doping Ring
July 16th, 2009Written by: Myles McCorry
As the eyes of the world are on cycling, it happens again. As the non-bikers tune in for their annual cheer for the yellow jersey- yet again, cycling messes up. All the hard work by the riders and teams to clean up the sport- destroyed.
This morning, Italian police arrested failed [...] - Italian Police Swoop In On Doping Ring
July 16th, 2009A Serbian cycling official has been arrested in a swoop on a suspected doping ring, police in the north Italian city of Padua said on Thursday.
Aleksandar Nikacevic, formerly involved in the top-level management of cycling in Serbia, is suspected of smuggling and of receiving banned substances including the [...] - Schumacher’s Failed Drugs Test Confirmed By B sample
July 7th, 2009BERLIN, July 7, 2009 (AFP) – The positive test of German cyclist Stefan Schumacher for EPO Cera during last year’s Olympic Games has been confirmed by the B sample, his lawyer Michael Lehner said on Tuesday.
The 27-year-old rider, however, continues to protest his innocence and is determined to clear [...] - Dekker – A Young Talent Gone Bad?
July 3rd, 2009Written by: Myles McCorry
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At the World Championships in Varese last Autumn Thomas Dekker’s agent was trying hard to secure his rider a contract for the 2009 season. The reasons for Dekkers removal from the Rabobank squad last year are still unclear. Dekker said it was due to his non selection for the Tour de France, [...] - Thomas Dekker Tests Positive For EPO And Is Out Of 2009 Tour de France
July 1st, 2009BRUSSELS, July 1, 2009 (AFP) – Dutch cyclist Thomas Dekker has been ruled out of the Tour de France three days before the start after testing positive for the banned blood-booster EPO, his Silence team announced Wednesday.
The sample was originally taken on December 24, 2007, but Silence said that [...] - Dutch Cycling Great Rooks Admits To Taking EPO
June 19th, 2009THE HAGUE, June 19, 2009 (AFP) – Dutch cycling great Steven Rooks became the latest former cyclist to confess to taking EPO in a book released this week.
The 48-year-old – second in the 1988 Tour de France when he won the classic Alpe d’Huez stage – admits in the [...] - Scandal-Free Tour Is Possible, Says Pat McQuaid
June 13th, 2009by Justin Davis
PARIS, June 11, 2009 (AFP) – Hopes of a scandal-free Tour de France in 2009 may be pie in the sky to some, but cycling’s most obstinate cheats have been warned they face a rocky road towards glory on the world’s biggest bike race.
On [...] - Tour de France 2009 Peloton To Face An Anti-Doping Army
June 10th, 2009by 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 event next month, UCI chief Pat McQuaid has warned.
McQuaid, the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), [...] - Antonio Colom Of Katusha Test Positive For EPO
June 9th, 2009Colom suspended after positive EPO test
PARIS, June 9, 2009 (AFP) – Spanish cyclist Antonio Colom has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for the banned substance EPO, the International Cycling Union (UCI) revealed on Tuesday.
Colom had been scheduled to race for the Katusha team in the Tour de France, which begins [...] - Positive Doping Test Takes Pfannberger Out Of Tour of Italy
May 7th, 2009PARIS, May 7, 2009 (AFP) – Austrian professional Christian Pfannberger has been suspended by the Russian Katusha team following a positive test from a random doping control, the team announced late Wednesday.
Pfannberger, 29, was due to start the three-week Tour of Italy this coming Saturday but he has been provisionally suspended [...] - Valverde To Take Legal Action Against CONI Prosecutor
May 6th, 2009MADRID, May 6, 2009 (AFP) – Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde announced on Wednesday that he is bringing a lawsuit against Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) anti-doping prosecutor Ettore Torri.
“Mr Torri acts, in a repeatedly obstinate manner, with total disregard for the Spanish legal authorities, refusing to submit to the decision [...] - Former Austrian Nordic Coach Mayer Released From Custody
May 1st, 2009VIENNA, April 30, 2009 (AFP) – Former Austrian nordic skiing coach Walter Mayer was released on Thursday after spending over a month in custody, on suspicion of dealing in doping substances, court sources said.
The 52-year-old was arrested on March 22, suspected of obtaining and providing illegal doping substances, including [...] - Coni Confirm Rebellin’s Positive Dope Test
April 29th, 2009ROME, April 29, 2009 (AFP) – The Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Wednesday confirmed that cyclist Davide Rebellin was under investigation for doping due to a positive test returned at last year’s Olympics.
The 37-year-old, who earlier this month won the prestigious Fleche Wallonne race, tested for the new generation of EPO, [...] - Stefan Schumacher Tests Positive For CERA At Olympics
April 29th, 2009BERLIN, April 29, 2009 (AFP) – German cyclist Stefan Schumacher was identified on Wednesday as one of the six athletes from the Beijing Olympic Games who has tested positive for banned blood-booster EPO CERA.
“The German Cycling Federation (BDR) have passed documents about a failed doping test on to the sportsman Stefan Schumacher,” said [...] - Olympic Silver Medal Winner Davide Rebellin Failed Drug Test
April 28th, 2009Veteran Italian rider Davide Rebellin tested positive for EPO CERA at last year’s Beijing Olympics where he won silver in the road race, Italian media reported on Tuesday.
The 37-year-old – who this month won a record-equalling third Fleche-Wallone classic – numbers many memorable one day victories during his career [...] - Some Life Bans For A Coach & Doctor In Canadian Cycling Doping Case
April 1st, 2009Retired Canadian cyclist Genevieve Jeanson received a 10-year ban while her coach, Andre Aubut, and physician Maurice Duquette were handed life bans Wednesday by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.
The punishments against a coach and support personnel were the first taken in Canada under the anti-doping code and [...] - Cyclist In Austrian Doping Case Freed
March 24th, 2009VIENNA, March 24, 2009 (AFP) – Austrian cyclist Christof Kerschbaum, who was provisionally detained as part of an investigation into the trafficking of doping products, has been released, a judiciary source revealed on Tuesday.
The former coach of the Austrian Nordic skiing team, Walter Mayer, was arrested on suspicion of [...] - Former Austria Ski Coach Arrested In New Doping Case
March 23rd, 2009VIENNA, March 23, 2009 (AFP) – Former Austrian nordic ski coach Walter Mayer, who was involved in the 2006 Turin Olympics doping scandal, has been arrested in connection with new doping allegations, Vienna prosecutors said Monday.
Mayer, who was arrested Sunday, is suspected of having provided a top Austrian [...] - UCI and AFLD Reach AN Anti-Doping Collaboration
March 6th, 2009The 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 agreement will strengthen the anti-doping stance that professional cycling has worked very hard to create.
“There was a strong [...] - Doping, Comebacks and a Man Named Contador
December 20th, 2008by Justin Davis
PARIS, Dec 20, 2008 (AFP) – History was made, new talents were revealed as drugs cheats and one of sport’s biggest names, Lance Armstrong, decided to emerge from retirement to show rivals ten years his junior a trick or two.
In all, 2008 was another [...] - AFLD Drug Chief Pierre Bordry Targeting Tour de France Blood Dopers
October 8th, 2008BERLIN, 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 taken at this year’s Tour de France.
“We possess considerable evidence from blood transfusions. We will only say later who it is,” Bordry [...] - IOC Planing To Retest Beijing Olympic Blood Samples
October 8th, 2008PARIS, Oct 8, 2008 (AFP) – Blood samples taken at the Beijing Olympics are to be reanalyzed for the banned blood booster EPO using a new detection system developed for the Tour de France, the IOC announced Wednesday.
The retroactive controls are designed to seek out the presence of the [...] - World Cycling Chief Pat McQuaid Wants Support, Not Criticism
August 11th, 2008World cycling chief Pat McQuaid has called for more support from the World Anti Doping Agency following comments by WADA president John Fahey which placed doubt on cycling’s future at the Olympics.
WADA chief Fahey said Monday that cycling was among several sports, including weightlifting, that risked their Olympic [...] - UCI ‘Disgusted’ At Spanish Rider Moreno Positive Doping Test At Olympics
August 11th, 2008by Justin Davis
BEIJING, Aug 11, 2008 (AFP) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) expressed disgust Monday after a Spanish rider became the first athlete to fail a drugs test at the Olympics, blasting the country’s “lax attitude” to doping.
Maria Isobel Moreno produced tested positive for blood-booster [...] - Emanuele Sella Admits Doping At CONI Hearing
August 8th, 2008ROME, Aug 8, 2008 (AFP) – Italian cyclist Emanuele Sella admitted to taking
the banned blood booster EPO at an Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) hearing
here on Friday.
After the hearing, in which he and Italian women’s cyclist Marta
Bastianelli were banned from all competitions, Sella issued a statement in
which he admitted taking the drug.
[...] - Coni Bans Bastianelli and Sella From All Competitions
August 7th, 2008ROMA, Aug 7, 2008 (AFP) – Italian cyclists Marta Bastianelli and Emanuele Sella, who have both recently failed drugs tests, were banned from all competitions by the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Thursday.
The ban means Bastianelli, 21, the 2007 women’s race race world champion, will miss the Beijing [...] - Leonardo Piepoli Denies Doping At Coni Hearing
July 31st, 2008ROME, July 31, 2008 (AFP) – Italian cyclist Leonardo Piepoli said he had
“denied everything” following his doping hearing with the Italian Olympic
Committee (Coni) on Thursday.
Piepoli was heard just a day after his former Saunier-Duval team-mate
Ricardo Ricco, who admitted to using EPO.
Ricco was kicked out of the Tour de France [...] - Riccardo Ricco Mans Up And Admits To Using EPO
July 30th, 2008ROME, July 30, 2008 (AFP) – Italian cyclist Ricardo Ricco admitted to using banned blood booster EPO when interviewed by the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Wednesday about his positive dope test on the Tour de France.
Ricco, who had won two stages, was kicked off the Tour after testing [...] - Danish Olympic Cyclist Fails Doping Test
July 28th, 2008COPENHAGEN, July 28, 2008 (AFP) – Denmark’s cross-country mountain bike champion Peter Riis Andersen, who was to compete in the Beijing Olympics, has failed a drugs test, the Danish sporting federation DIF said on Monday.
Andersen, 28, one of 84 Danish athletes selected to take part in the Games, tested [...] - Riccardo Ricco To Face Coni At Month’s End
July 23rd, 2008ROME, July 23, 2008 (AFP) – Disgraced Italian cyclist Ricardo Ricco is to be interviewed by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) at the end of the month, Italian news agency Ansa said on Wednesday.
The 24-year-old became one of the major attractions of this year’s Tour de France when he [...] - Riccardo Ricco Caught By Secret Doping Molecule
July 22nd, 2008SYDNEY, July 23, 2008 (AFP) – The world doping agency said Wednesday Italian rider Riccardo Ricco tested positive at the Tour de France after a secret molecule was planted in the blood booster EPO during its manufacture.
Ricco, 24, upset the big names of the sport to win two stages [...] - Riccardo Ricco Denies EPO Use As Doping Chief Backs Controls
July 22nd, 2008JAUSIERS, 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 national anti-doping agency (AFLD) on Tuesday.
AFLD chief Pierre Bordry said prior to the race’s 16th stage from Cuneo, [...] - Barloworld Positive, But Slam Drugs Cheat Duenas
July 19th, 2008by Justin Davis
DIGNES-LES-BAINS, France, July 19, 2008 (AFP) – Kenyan-born Briton Chris Froome hit out at Barloworld teammate Moises Duenas here on Saturday after the Spaniard’s positive doping control at the Tour de France.
Duenas’s positive test for the banned blood booster EPO (erythrpoietin) on stage four [...] - Moises Duenas Blames Spanish Doctor For Positive Dope Test
July 19th, 2008MADRID, July 19, 2008 (AFP) – Spanish rider Moises Duenas, kicked out of the Tour de France, has blamed a Spanish doctor for his positive test for the blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), the daily El Pais reported on Saturday.
Duenas, who was charged with “use and possession of poisonous substances”
before [...] - Basso Worth A Second Chance, Says Liquigas Chief
July 18th, 2008by Justin Davis
NARBONNE, France, July 18, 2008 (AFP) – Disgraced Italian cycling star Ivan
Basso deserves a second chance of resurrecting his career, the Italian’s
future manager at the Liquigas team said Friday.
Basso is nearing the end of a ban handed down after he admitted, without
having tested positive for banned substances, [...] - Ricco Remanded After Doping Scandal
July 18th, 2008FOIX, France, July 18, 2008 (AFP) – Italian racer Riccardo Ricco, kicked
off the Tour de France for doping, was Friday remanded in custody for “using a
poisonous substance,” the public prosecutor at Foix said.
Prosecutor Antoine Leroy said Ricco had been remanded for “using a
substance classed poisonous under the terms of the public [...] - A Prognostication We Hoped We’d Be Wrong About
July 18th, 2008A Prognostication We Hoped We’d Be Wrong About
Sometimes The Labs Confirm What Our Noses Already Sensed…
As the Tour headed into the Pyrenees in recent days we wrote that “young gun” Ricardo Ricco was positively en fiero, and we added a few innocuous words as a sort of footnote, or perhaps as a garlic clove intended [...] - Ricco Swears Innocence, But Sacked Along With Piepoli
July 18th, 2008by Justin Davis
NIMES, France, July 18, 2008 (AFP) – Spanish cycling team Saunier Duval
have sacked Italian star Riccardo Ricco following his positive doping control
for EPO (erythropoietin) at the Tour de France, it was announced Friday.
Team manager Mauro Gianetti said that both Ricco and his Italian teammate
Leonardo Piepoli, who was [...] - Barloworld Can Stay For Now, Says Tour Official Patrice Clerc
July 17th, 2008by Justin Davis
NARBONNE, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) – Top Tour de France official Patrice Clerc said Barloworld would remain in the race unless new evidence from a police investigation pointed to organized doping within the team.
Barloworld, along with two other teams, have come under the [...] - Tour Chief Prudhomme, Riders, and Teams Support Snaring Cheats
July 17th, 2008by Justin Davis
NARBONNE, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) – Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme has warned cyclists, their teams and sponsors who pour millions into the sport that the noose is tightening around the drugs cheats.
The world’s biggest bike race was rocked Thursday by a [...] - The Dopers and Cheats Won’t Stop Cavendish From Winning Stages
July 17th, 2008by Justin Davis
NARBONNE, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) – Britain’s Mark Cavendish was forced to hold back his anger and frustration here at the Tour de France Thursday on a day when celebration should have been his sole priority.
The 23-year-old Isle of Man sprinter made cycling [...] - More Scandal For Tour de France As Ricco Tests Positive
July 17th, 2008by Justin Davis
LAVELANET, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) – The Tour de France was rocked by a third positive doping scandal Thursday after Italian Riccardo Ricco tested positive for banned substances.
Ricco, who won two climbing stages last week, was taken into custody by French police amid [...] - Give Dopers and Cheats A Lifetime Ban, says Stuart O’Grady
July 17th, 2008by Justin Davis
LAVELANET, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) – Australian Stuart O’Grady has called for dope cheats to be handed life bans following the latest scandal to hit the Tour de France on Thursday.
O’Grady spoke out after Ricardo Ricco, one of Italy’s biggest cycling stars, left [...] - Riccardo Ricco Fails Drug Test At The Tour de France
July 17th, 2008LAVELANET, 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 Thursday.
The 24-year-old Ricco, winner of two mountain stages, provided a urine sample which contained the banned subtance CERA (Continuous [...] - Stash of Banned Doping Products Found Among Duenas’ Belongings
July 17th, 2008TOULOUSE, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) – A stash of medical material and a banned substance were among items seized by police from the room of Spanish cyclist Moises Duenas who has been kicked out of the Tour de France after failing a drug test, a French court heard on Thursday.
[...] - Spanish Rider Moises Duenas of BarloWorld Tests Positive In Tour de France
July 16th, 2008LANNEMEZAN, France, July 16, 2008 (AFP) – Spanish rider Moises Duenas of the Barloworld team has tested positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) during the Tour de France and banned products have been found in his room during a search, his team revealed on Wednesday.
The 27-year-old tested positive during the [...] - Riccardo Ricco Loves Pantani, But Not The Doping Rumors
July 13th, 2008by Justin Davis
BAGNERES-DE-BIGORRE, France, July 13, 2008 (AFP) – Italian Riccardo Ricco has pleaded to be left alone following days of reports which claim he could be among several cyclists to be targeted by the anti-doping authorities.
Ricco claimed his second victory win on the Tour de [...] - Beltran Tests Positive – Reaction Video by Versus
July 12th, 2008This Bicycle.net video is supplied by our friends at Versus.com
Beltran Caught, Expelled
By Bob Roll
Stage 8 of the 2008 Tour de France will be marked as the great statement for Mark Cavendish, but it will also be remembered as the day that Manual Beltran was expelled from the Tour for giving a positive sample of the [...] - Vino, Mayo and Moreni To Face Criminal Charges
July 12th, 2008PAU, France, July 12, 2008 (AFP) – Former Astana team leader Alexandre Vinokourov is among three riders set to face criminal charges following the discovery of drugs at last year’s Tour de France, a report said on Friday.
According to Sud Ouest newspaper Vinokourov, kicked off last year’s race along [...] - Tour de France President Patrice Clerc Calls For Calm After First Doping Case
July 12th, 2008TOULOUSE, France, July 12, 2008 (AFP) – Tour de France president Patrice Clerc has backed the news of the first positive doping test at this year’s race, and said it proves the current system is effective.
Liquigas rider Manuel Beltran was taken away for questioning by police on Friday after [...] - Liquigas Team Now At Risk Of Tour Expulsion As Beltran Tests Positive
July 11th, 2008by 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 first doping scandal to emerge at this year’s Tour de France.
Beltran, best known for helping Lance Armstrong to the [...] - AFLD Shhots Down Doping Report At Tour de France
July 11th, 2008AURILLAC, 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 about to be issued warnings for “suspect” blood samples.
A report in Le Monde newspaper suggested that the riders were [...] - David Millar Has High Hopes For Tour de France Glory In 2008
July 3rd, 2008by Justin Davis
BREST, France, July 3, 2008 (AFP) – This time last year David Millar came back to the Tour de France with the air of a debutant trying to find his way in the race hierarchy.
Ahead of the first stage on Saturday, a 197.5km [...] - Doping Expert Skeptical Over Actually Cathcing Cheats At Tour de France
July 3rd, 2008by Justin Davis
BREST, France, July 3, 2008 (AFP) – Hopes of an entirely clean peloton contesting this year’s Tour de France should not be taken too seriously, if the claims of a top anti-doping expert are to be believed.
The world’s biggest bike race clicks into [...] - Tour de France Anti-Doping Facts
July 3rd, 2008BREST, 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 a rupture between the International Cycling Union (UCI) and the company which runs the Tour, ASO, the race [...] - Study: Olympic and Tour de France Enhanced Performance Drug Testing Flawed
June 26th, 2008International Herald Tribune: Study shows problems with Olympic-style tests
Athletes who want to cheat by injecting themselves with a performance-enhancing drug that boosts their blood cell count can do so with little risk of getting caught, a new study indicates, possibly exposing another flaw in what is regarded as the world’s toughest anti-doping program.
A urine [...] - Italy’s Eddy Mazzoleni ‘Oil for Drug’ Affair BAN – Two Years
April 8th, 2008ROME, 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.
The FCI also banned 28-year-old former Ceramica [...]
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