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IOC Planing To Retest Beijing Olympic Blood Samples
PARIS, 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 [...]
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- IOC Anti-Doping Chief Arne Ljungqvist Backs Up Cycling At Olympic Games
August 15th, 2008BEIJING, Aug 15, 2008 (AFP) - Professor Arne Ljungqvist, head of the
International Olympic Committee’s medical commission, has brushed off a
suggestion that the troubled sport of cycling should be barred from the Games.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief John Fahey said last week that sports
tarnished by doping, including cycling and weightlifting, risked being
expelled [...] - 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 [...] - Scientist Donald Barry: Anti-Doping Tests Do Not Pass Statistical muster
August 6th, 2008PARIS Aug 6, 2008 (AFP) - Anti-doping tests used at the Olympics and other major sporting events are too often based on faulty science and statistical methods that can yield erroneous results, a researcher charged Wednesday in a leading scientific journal.
Donald Berry, an expert in biostatistics at the University of Texas, used the case of [...] - Masked US Cyclists Apologize To Beijing Olympic Organizers (with Video)
August 6th, 2008by Jim Slater
BEIJING, Aug 6, 2008 (AFP) - Four US cyclists who wore masks over their
nose and mouths over pollution fears when arriving in Beijing apologized
Wednesday to Olympic organizers, US Olympic Committee chief executive Jim
Scherr said.
Mike Friedman, Bobby Lea, Sarah Hammer and Jennie Reed were among about 200
athletes from [...] - 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 [...]
