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• Alberto Contador Doping Decision Due Mid January By CAS
  December 21st, 2011
  

  PARIS, Dec 21, 2011 – Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will find out “between January 15 and 20″ whether he is to be handed a doping ban from [...]

• CAS Postpones Contador Hearing For Second Time
  July 27th, 2011
  

  GENEVA, July 27, 2011 (AFP) – World sport’s top court said on Tuesday it has agreed to postpone a doping hearing concerning Spanish three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, [...]

• The Contador CAS Case to Be Heard In November
  July 26th, 2011
  

  Lausanne, 26 July 2011 – In the arbitration between the International Cycling Union (UCI) World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and Alberto Contador (RFEC), the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has [...]

• UCI Says More Passport Doping Positives Could Be On The Way
  June 25th, 2011
  

  PARIS, June 23, 2011 – World cycling’s governing body warned on Thursday that several blood samples are undergoing expert scrutiny to determine whether blood doping or manipulation has taken place. [...]

• UCI Calls For Understanding On Contador Controversy
  June 18th, 2011
  

  PARIS, June 16, 2011 (AFP) – World cycling chiefs have backed calls for Alberto Contador to be presumed innocent of doping until proven guilty, as the Spaniard prepares to embark [...]

• Contador Hearing At CAS Set After Tour de France
  May 31st, 2011
  

  PARIS, May 31, 2011 – Spain’s controversial three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador edged closer to taking part in the Tour de France after his doping hearing before the [...]

• CAS Has Set Date For Contador Appeal
  May 20th, 2011
  

  LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 20, 2011 – The doping case concerning three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will be heard before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over three [...]

• WADA Prepares To Probe UCI Document Leak
  May 15th, 2011
  

  MONTREAL, May 15, 2011 (AFP) – World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officials will investigate the leak of an International Cycling Union (UCI) document that ranked riders at the 2010 Tour de [...]

• UCI Lashes Out At Doping Results Leak
  May 12th, 2011
  

  PARIS, May 12, 2011 (AFP) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday criticized the decision by respected French sports daily L’Equipe to publish results from dope tests taken on [...]

• Keisse Has To Serve Rest of Doping Ban Despite His Fight
  May 6th, 2011
  

  PARIS, May 6, 2011 – Belgian track cyclist Iljo Keisse had a doping ban confirmed Friday despite his refusal to accept an initial sanction by the International Cycling Union (UCI). [...]

• UCI Wants Doping Ban For Mosquera
  April 29th, 2011
  

  PARIS, April 29, 2011 – World cycling chiefs on Friday called on the Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) to open disciplinary proceedings against Tour of Spain runner-up Ezequiel Mosquera. Mosquera tested [...]

• WADA Is To Appeal The Contador Doping Acquittal
  March 30th, 2011
  

  MADRID, March 30, 2011 – The World Anti-Doping Agency said it has joined world’s cycling’s governing body in appealing the Spanish federation’s decision to acquit three-time Tour de France winner [...]

• UCI To Appeal The Contador Doping Acquital
  March 24th, 2011
  

  MADRID, March 24, 2011 – Cycling’s governing body on Thursday revived a doping case against three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador by announcing it would appeal the Spanish federation’s [...]

• UCI, WADA, Mull Over Contador Appeal
  March 5th, 2011
  

  Cycling’s governing body will decide later this month whether to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the decision by Spanish authorities not to press charges against [...]

• Contador Vows To Fight Any Doping Ban
  March 2nd, 2011
  

  MADRID, Feb 16, 2011 – Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador vowed to fight any attempt to re-impose doping sanctions, in an interview published Wednesday. Contador tested positive for [...]

• Contador Cleared Of All Doping Charges
  February 15th, 2011
  

  Written by: Daniel Silva MADRID, Feb 15, 2011 – Spain’s cycling federation cleared three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of knowingly using a banned substance, his spokesman said Tuesday, [...]

• Contador To Be Cleared Of Doping Charges
  February 15th, 2011
  

  Written by: Denholm Barnetson MADRID, Feb 15, 2011 (AFP) – Spain’s cycling federation was expected to issue a decision Tuesday clearing three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of using [...]

• Prudhomme wants Fast Decison On Contador Verdict
  February 11th, 2011
  

  BARCELONA, Spain, Feb 10, 2011 – Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme said Thursday he hopes a swift verdict will be reached in the case of reigning champion Alberto Contador, [...]

• WADA Chief Laments Ricco Affair “Tragic”
  February 10th, 2011
  

  PARIS, Feb 10, 2011 (AFP) – World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey has described as “tragic” the case of Riccardo Ricco, the Italian rider taken to hospital after a self-administered [...]

• Contador Refuses Call To Accept One-Year Ban
  February 7th, 2011
  

  MADRID – Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, who is facing a one-year ban for taking performance enhancing drugs, on Monday rejected calls that he accept the ban instead [...]

• Spanish To Consult WADA and UCI On Contador
  January 10th, 2011
  

  MADRID – The Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) will consult the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Cycling Union (UCI) as it grapples with the case of triple Tour de [...]

• WADA Rejects Contador Clenbuterol Doping Defense
  November 17th, 2010
  

  MADRID – A study by the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) has found no evidence to support Alberto Contador’s claim that contaminated meat was responsible for his positive doping test, a [...]

• French Anti-Doping Outlaws Called Back To The Fold
  November 2nd, 2010
  

  PARIS, Nov 2, 2010 (AFP) – France’s national anti-doping agency (AFLD) said it is once again ready to help play a role beating the drugs cheats on the Tour de [...]

• UCI To Study Tour de France Doping Report
  October 30th, 2010
  

  PARIS – The International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Friday that it will study recommendations about Tour de France drug-testing procedures made in an independent report. A team of six [...]

• What’s In Santa’s Bag For Your Favorite Cyclist?
  October 29th, 2010
  

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• Tour de France Doping Suspects Face Overnight Tests
  October 28th, 2010
  

  PARIS – Tour de France riders suspected of doping may face more intrusive testing from next year that could include night-time checks, independent observers for the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) [...]

• Pat McQuaid (UCI) Calls For Patience During Contador Doping Case
  October 19th, 2010
  

  Written by: Justin Davis PARIS- World cycling chief Pat McQuaid called for patience Tuesday as he faced queries about the fate of reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador. Contador [...]

• Da Pena Suspended After Second Tour of Spain Positive Doping Test
  October 6th, 2010
  

  GENEVA – Spanish cyclist David Garcia Da Pena has been suspended after he failed a second anti-doping test during the Tour of Spain, world cycling’s ruling body the International Cycling [...]

• Contador Says He Might Quit If Banned For Doping
  October 3rd, 2010
  

  MADRID – Tour de France champion Alberto Contador says he may quit cycling if he is banned for doping. “If this is not resolved favorably and in just fashion then [...]

• UCI Hoping To Clear Contador Doping Case Up “Quickly”
  October 2nd, 2010
  

  GEELONG, Australia – World cycling chiefs said Saturday they would look to resolve “as quickly as possible” the doping controversy surrounding Tour de France champion Alberto Contador. Contador has been [...]

• WADA Chief Calls For Global Push Against Suppliers
  October 2nd, 2010
  

  Written by: Martin Parry NEW DELHI – World Anti-Doping Agency chief David Howman on Saturday urged greater international efforts to clamp down on people supplying drugs to athletes amid the [...]

• Armstrong To Cooperate, Unless It Becomes A ‘Witch Hunt’
  July 14th, 2010
  

  GAP, France – Lance Armstrong said Wednesday he was prepared to cooperate in a federal investigation into alleged doping fraud by his former team US Postal — as long as [...]

• Landis Probe Is ‘Significant’ Says Wada
  July 6th, 2010
  

  LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 6, 2010 (AFP) – Disgraced champion Floyd Landis’s allegations about doping in cycling have sparked a “significant” inquiry that could take months to complete, a world anti-doping [...]

• WADA Rejects French Testers’ Tour de France Request
  June 23rd, 2010
  

  PARIS, June 23, 2010 – The World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) on Wednesday turned down a request from the French Anti-doping Agency (AFLD), who wanted to carry out their own drug [...]

• WADA To Watch Tour de France Drug Testing
  June 23rd, 2010
  

  MONTREAL, June 22, 2010 (AFP) – The World Anti-Doping Agency says it plans to monitor doping controls at next month’s Tour de France. The International Cycling Union signed the deal [...]

• Spanish Rider Valverde Banned Until End of 2011
  May 31st, 2010
  

  Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde on Monday received a two-year ban from world sport’s top court, the CAS, over his implication in the Operation Puerto drugs scandal which erupted in 2006. [...]

• WADA ‘Frustrated’ But Closing In On ‘Cheat’ Valverde
  May 12th, 2010
  

  by Stephanie Pertuiset MONTREAL, May 12, 2010 (AFP) – World Anti-Doping Agency legal chief Olivier Niggli believes the anti-doping authorities are set to end Alejandro Valverde’s winning streak by handing [...]

• AFLD To Ask For Additional Tour Tests
  May 12th, 2010
  

  PARIS, May 12, 2010 – The French anti-doping agency (AFLD) will ask the International Cycling Union and the World Anti-Doping Agency to be able to conduct their own additional anti-doping [...]

• WADA Comment On Current Anti-Doping Strategies
  January 23rd, 2010
  

  The World Ant-Doping Agency (WADA) have stated today that greater collaboration with drug companies could be one of the biggest weapons in combating cheating in sport. WADA Director General David [...]

• Valverde Doping Decision Delayed Until March
  January 14th, 2010
  

  GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan 14, 2010 (AFP) – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday was unable to rule on demands to impose a two-yearinternational ban on cyclist Alejandro [...]

• WADA Mourns Death of EPO Test Pioneer De Ceaurriz
  January 5th, 2010
  

  PARIS, 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 [...]

• Verbruggen and Pound Close War Of Words
  December 17th, 2009
  

  GENEVA, Dec 17, 2009 (AFP) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) and former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Dick Pound said Thursday that they had settled a lawsuit over allegedly [...]

• CAS Postpones Hearing In Valverde Doping Case
  November 9th, 2009
  

  GENEVA, Nov 9, 2009 (AFP) – The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) said on Monday that it had postponed a hearing into Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde’s appeal against a [...]

• Spanish Rider Provisionally Suspended For Doping
  November 6th, 2009
  

  GENEVA, 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 [...]

• Spanish Rider Provisionally Suspended For Doping
  November 5th, 2009
  

  GENEVA, 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 [...]

• Contador, Astana Say They Have Nothing To Hide
  October 14th, 2009
  

  PARIS, Oct 14, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador played down the threat of a drugs probe that was launched a day before the presentation [...]

• AFLD Chief Slams The UCI and Astana
  October 7th, 2009
  

  French anti-doping chiefs (AFLD) said Wednesday they were surprised at the lack of positive doping tests at this year’s Tour de France and said they won’t collaborate with world cycling’s [...]

• WADA Labs Corrupted By Disgraced Austrian, Claims Kohl
  August 14th, 2009
  

  VIENNA, 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 [...]

• BISSELL Pro Cycling Removes Kirk O’Bee from Team for Contract Violation
  August 1st, 2009
  

  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 31, 2009 – BISSELL Pro Cycling has removed Kirk O’Bee from the team today, immediately after learning that the rider has violated its no-tolerance policy agreed [...]

• WADA Seeks Lifetime Ban On Drugs Cheat Hamilton
  July 16th, 2009
  

  GENEVA, July 16, 2009 (AFP) – The World Anti-Doping Agency has appealed against an eight-year doping suspension US authorities imposed on one-time Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton, demanding a lifetime [...]

• Thomas Dekker Tests Positive For EPO And Is Out Of 2009 Tour de France
  July 1st, 2009
  

  BRUSSELS, 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 [...]

• Alejandro Valverde Fighting His Italian Doping Ban
  May 26th, 2009
  

  Spain’s Alejandro Valverde said Tuesday he has filed a court complaint for “irregular conduct” against the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as part of his [...]

• Valverde Rails At ‘Injustice’ After Catalonia Win
  May 24th, 2009
  

  MADRID, May 24, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s Alejandro Valverde vowed to put his doping worries behind him after winning the 89th edition of the Tour of Catalonia on Sunday. The [...]

• ‘Thanks, but no thanks’, Danes tell Valverde
  May 14th, 2009
  

  COPENHAGEN, May 14, 2009 (AFP) – Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde, who has been banned from racing in Italy after being implicated in the Operation Puerto doping scandal, was on Thursday [...]

• Valverde Banned From Racing In Italy For Two Years
  May 11th, 2009
  

  ROME, May 11, 2009 (AFP) – T- The anti-doping tribunal of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on Monday suspended Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde from competing on Italian soil for two [...]

• Valverde To Take Legal Action Against CONI Prosecutor
  May 6th, 2009
  

  MADRID, 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 [...]

• Anti Doping Chief John Fahey Praises Armstrong Comeback
  February 24th, 2009
  

  GENEVA, Feb 24, 2009 (AFP) – World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey on Tuesday praised Lance Armstrong’s comeback and the “phenomenal” interest the US cyclist generated for cycling and the [...]

• CONI Summons Alejandro Valverde On Doping Suspicions
  February 11th, 2009
  

  The Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Wednesday summoned Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde to face charges of doping or attempting to dope in relation to the infamous ‘Operation Puerto’ affair. The [...]

• IOC Planing To Retest Beijing Olympic Blood Samples
  October 8th, 2008
  

  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 [...]

• IOC Anti-Doping Chief Arne Ljungqvist Backs Up Cycling At Olympic Games
  August 15th, 2008
  

  BEIJING, 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 [...]

• AFLD Shhots Down Doping Report At Tour de France
  July 11th, 2008
  

  AURILLAC, 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 [...]

• What They Are Saying Ahead Of The Tour de France
  July 4th, 2008
  

  BREST, France, July 4, 2008 (AFP) – A selection of what they’re saying ahead of this year’s Tour de France, which begins here Saturday and ends on July 27: “If [...]

• Tour de France Chief Convinced That The Cheats Are On Their Way Out
  July 2nd, 2008
  

  by Jean Montois BREST, France, July 2, 2008 (AFP) – Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme is convinced this year’s race can take place without the numerous drug-tainted scandals that [...]

• Study: Olympic and Tour de France Enhanced Performance Drug Testing Flawed
  June 26th, 2008
  

  International 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 [...]

• High Road signs with ACE for anti-doping program
  December 10th, 2007
  

  Team High Road’s anti-doping programme for 2008 will be run by the Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE), which also runs the program for the American Professional Continental Team Slipstream. High [...]