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AFLD Drug Chief Pierre Bordry Targeting Tour de France Blood Dopers
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 taken at this year’s Tour de France.
“We possess considerable evidence from blood transfusions. We will only say later who it is,” Bordry [...]
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- 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 [...]
