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• Disgraced Tour de France Rider Beltran Fails Second Drug Test
  September 2nd, 2008
  

  MADRID, Sept 2, 2008 (AFP) - The second sample provided by Spanish rider Manuel Beltran, who tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) during the Tour de France, has also tested positive for the blood booster, a source close to the dossier said Tuesday.
  The test on the second sample, known [...]

• Barloworld Positive, But Slam Drugs Cheat Duenas
  July 19th, 2008
  

  by 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 [...]

• Tour Chief Prudhomme, Riders, and Teams Support Snaring Cheats
  July 17th, 2008
  

  by 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 [...]

• More Scandal For Tour de France As Ricco Tests Positive
  July 17th, 2008
  

  by 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 [...]

• UCI Chief Pat McQuaid Calls For Spanish To Clean Up Cycling
  July 16th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  FOIX, France, July 16, 2008 (AFP) - World cycling chief Pat McQuaid has called on the Spanish authorities to increase their efforts in the fight against doping after the latest doping affair at the Tour de France.
  Moises Duenas of the Barloworld team became the [...]

• Spanish Rider Moises Duenas of BarloWorld Tests Positive In Tour de France
  July 16th, 2008
  

  LANNEMEZAN, 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 [...]

• Seven Observations From The First Week Of The Tour de France
  July 14th, 2008
  

  1) Craig Hummer needs a nickname. I suggest The Leprechaun. Why? Because until this swim coach/bull riding commentator showed up at the Tour de France, I thought there was no announcer on earth worse than Al Trautwig. But nope, Versus achieved the impossible and found that mythical creature without all the hassle of going to [...]

• Beltran Tests Positive - Reaction Video by Versus
  July 12th, 2008
  

  This 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 [...]

• Liquigas Team Now At Risk Of Tour Expulsion As Beltran Tests Positive
  July 11th, 2008
  

  by 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 [...]