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France Toughens Anti-Doping Law Ahead Of The Tour de France
PARIS, April 30, 2008 (AFP) - The French government on Wednesday moved to toughen anti-doping legislation ahead of this summer’s Tour de France.
Members of Parliament adopted a new law which penalizes the possession and trafficking of doping products in sport with prison sentences and fines.
Under the [...]
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- UCI boss slams colluding ASO and French sports ministry
March 7th, 2008PARIS, March 7, 2008 (AFP) - World cycling chief Pat McQuaid on Friday
stoked the feud with race organisers Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO),
accusing them of colluding to form a private league with the backing of the
French sports ministry.
International Cycling Union (UCI) president McQuaid made his accusations in
a column in French daily Le Monde just two days [...] - TOUR OF CAMARILLO
March 5th, 2008TOUR OF CAMARILLO.
Well, another Tour of California has come and gone, too bad about the weather, it looked way ugly even on TV. I kept waiting for the big “hydro-pro” in the field sprints. Every time those guys cranked their bikes through a hard turn and across those painted crosswalks in a downpour, I [...]
- Plaza makes Benfica work as Mirco wins fourth stage
February 29th, 2008MADRID, Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) - Former Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro fell victim to a determined chasing peloton Friday before Italian Lorenzetto Mirco took out a well-deserved sprint win at the Tour of the Valencia Community. Mirco, of Lampre, held off fellow Spaniard Xavier Florencio, of Bouygues Telecom, and Italian Filippo Pozzato of [...]
- Tom Boonen opts for Italian stage race over Paris-Nice
February 29th, 2008BRUSSELS, Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) - Belgium’s former world champion Tom Boonen has opted to race at the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race instead of Paris-Nice, his Quick Step team said Friday.
Boonen, a one-day specialist who would use either race as preparation for the upcoming classics season, says the profile of the French ‘Race to the [...] - Operation Puerto affair reopened
February 14th, 2008MADRID, 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 [...] - Exclusive Photos: CSC at training camp in Southern California
February 14th, 2008Team CSC Stopping For Coffee At Training Camp by: Phil Polishook
Team CSC On the Road During Their Training Camp in SoCal by: Phil Polishook
Team CSC Riding Their Cervelo Steeds by: Phil Polishook
- Kloeden furious at Astana’s Tour rejection
February 14th, 2008Kloeden furious at Astana’s Tour rejection
by Ryland James
BERLIN, Feb 14, 2008 (AFP) - German cyclist Andreas Kloeden has reacted angrily to the news his Astana team - including reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador - have been barred from competing in this year’srace.
On Wednesday, Astana were officially barred from the [...] - How Do You Say “Cycling Apartheid” in French? (SATIRE)
February 13th, 2008Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning “separation” or “being apart”.
[SATIRE... sort of]
Is it now accurate to use apartheid to describe a policy that exists in France in the latter 20th and early 21st centuries? This system is used to mistreat and deny opportunity to superior non-French cyclists. The ASO allowed the French minority to [...] - Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer of Astana kicked out of Tour de France
February 13th, 2008Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer Astana kicked out of Tour de France
PARIS, Feb 13, 2008 (AFP) - The Astana team of reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador have been barred from competing in this year’s race as a result of doping scandals over the past two years, organisers confirmed on Wednesday.
ASO (Amaury [...] - Tour de France Winner Alberto Contador May Not Be Guaranteed 2008 Start
February 1st, 2008Tour de France winner Alberto Contador not guaranteed 2008 place
Feb 1, 2008 (AFP) - Reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, who has signed for the disgraced Astana team, will not be a guaranteed a starting place in the 2008 race.
Patrice Clerc, the president of Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) [...] - Cycling Can Shed Black Sheep Status: So Says Prudhomme
January 29th, 2008Cycling can shed black sheep status: Prudhomme
by Benoit Noel
DOHA, Jan 29, 2008 (AFP) - The head of the Tour de France, Christian
Prudhomme, said Tuesday he believed the advent of biological passports would
help the sport to shed its “black sheep” status after years of doping
scandals.
Speaking in Doha on the sidelines [...] - Floyd Landis gets his long awaited CAS court date
January 15th, 2008Floyd Landis gets his long awaited CAS court date
Floyd Landis will not get his chance to present his appeal to a Court of Arbitration for Sport panel in New York on March 19, the American’s lawyer Maurice Suh announced. The CAS appearance is the final stage of appeal in the former professional cyclists’ 18-month long [...] - Scotland open talks for tartan Tour de France
December 19th, 2007Richard Moore
Thursday December 20, 2007
The Guardian
Scotland has emerged as a candidate to host the Grand Départ of the Tour de France after the success of London last summer. EventScotland, the Scottish government-funded agency, travelled to Paris in September for discussions with the Tour director, Christian Prudhomme, on taking the race north of the border, [...] - Michael Rasmussen to sue Rabobank - Does anyone really care
December 18th, 2007Michael Rasmussen is apparently planning to take Team Rabobank to court to contest his withdrawal from the Tour de France and his dismissal from the team this summer. The 33 year-old Dane has hired Dutch lawyers, who have confirmed to the Belga press agency that they have been engaged.
Rasmussen was fired from Rabobank this summer [...] - 2009 Tour de France - stages in Monaco confirmed
December 16th, 2007The 2009 Tour de France will kick off from the tiny Mediterranean Principality of Monaco, the race’s organizer officially announced the Grand Tour’s first few stages Friday. The Grand Départ will start with a 15-kilometer time trial that will take place partly on the world-renowned Monaco Grand Prix circuit, July 4, making 2009 the fifth [...]
- The Inside Dope on Sports Testing
December 12th, 2007I 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 [...] - Confusion over T-Mobile and the 2006 Tour
December 10th, 2007German anti-doping crusader Doctor Werner Franke continued to insist that at least five T-Mobile riders left Strasbourg, France – site of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France – on the evening of Saturday, July 1, 2006 and drove to Freiburg, Germany, for blood transfusions. However, the head of a committee investigating the University [...]
- Teams request changes to Paris-Nice contract
November 30th, 1999PARIS, Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) - Cyclists due to compete in the Paris-Nice stage race have asked organisers to make amendments to a proposed teams’ contract, which in midweek prompted anger from the sport’s world ruling body.
The first major European stage race of the season will be held under a cloud after organisers controversially [...]
