| Jan 31 | Rossi denies CERA use, cites breast-feeding as proof ('I wouldn't do t.. Ricco's Partner Denies Taking EPO CERA | Cyclingnews.com Riccardo Riccò's girlfriend has denied taking the banned blood-boosting drug EPO CERA, revealing she breast fed her baby boy just before undergoing the anti-doping test on January 10 that show.. |
| Jan 31 | Zirbel's B positive for DHEA Zirbel Confirms B Sample Is Also Positive | Cyclingnews.com Just a month after he announced he had returned a non-negative test for DHEA at the 2009 USPRO TT championships, American rider Tom Zirbel has confirmed that his B-sample analysis is also p.. |
| Jan 30 | Making it a family affair? Over-eager to get fit after a pregnancy? Riccò's Partner Positive For CERA | Cyclingnews.com Riccardo Riccò's partner Vania Rossi has tested positive for EPO CERA, the Italian Olympic Committee announced via its website on Friday. |
| Jan 19 | Ricco to return, despite criticism Riccò Shrugs Off Cavendish Criticism | Cyclingnews.com Riccò’s 20-month ban for taking the banned blood boosting drug ends on March 18, just two days before Milano-Sanremo, which he hopes to ride. On Friday Riccò is expected to be the star of the Fl.. |
| Jan 19 | s the unofficial doping penalty - no-one wants to risk it by signing y.. Rasmussen Aims For Top Ten In San Luis | Cyclingnews.com When asked to compare his punishment to the others cyclists who have served the maximum two-year suspensions, Rasmussen said plainly, "They have to find a way to justify kicking me out. If you.. |
| Jan 18 | Evans on Armstrong Evans Looking To Familiarise Himself With Team-mates | Cyclingnews.com Despite being Australia’s first road world champion and competing in the jersey on home soil, Evans is under no illusions as to why all the chatter surrounds Lance Armstrong and .. |
| Jan 7 | Axelsson positive for EPO - again? Last gasp of a 36 yo... 36 is not really old, but it must be tempting to 'top up' your training when you reach the twilight years... Axelsson Positive For EPO, Faces Lifetime Ban | Cyclingnews.com Swedish rider Niklas Axelsson has tested positive for EPO for the second tim.. |
| Dec 28 | Zirbel DHEA-positive but denies Zirbel denies knowingly taking it... if he did take it he may have been boosting his immune system. Any other theories? Zirbel Announces Positive For DHEA | Cyclingnews.com Tom Zirbel has announced he tested positive in an anti-doping test conducted.. |
| Dec 24 | The old hanging-2-lengths-off-the-back training technique I used to be fit enough to do this, now I am just fit enough to get dropped off the back and stay off, until lapped I mean. Glad McEwen is coming back from a bad year, anyway. McEwen Makes His Return At The Bay | Cyclingnews.com "I've been going out.. |
| Dec 24 | Astana 2009 squad in French sights again - once more, repeat with feel.. They won't get access to the DNA fingerprints and nothing will ever be proved. Same old same old. French Agency Targets Astana For Illegal Transfusion Kit | Cyclingnews.com Syringes seized during Tour de France show seven DNA fingerprints An investi.. |
| Nov 19 | The 'whereabouts' rule catches out pro tennis players too It's not just pro cyclists like 'Chicken' Rasmussen who have trouble pin-pointing where they will be, apparently some pro tennis players are location-challenged as well... Belgian duo appeal against doping bans Malisse and compatriot Yanina Wickmaye.. |
| Nov 3 | Keisse cleared of probable pseudoephedrine-related charge Put this one in the 'I told you I had a cold and took a symptom-reducing tablet' basket. (Cathine can be found as a by-product of pseudoephedrine breakdown.) Keisse Doping Charges Dismissed | Cyclingnews.com The doping charges against track rider I.. |
| Oct 23 | Coogee Crit 1987 Coogee Crit 1987_040 Originally uploaded by gtveloce This is a wet Coogee crit during the Bank Race. Judging by the mix of toe clips and Look pedals plus the 'leather hairnets' it's probably 1987 or so. Dean Woods was in the crowd but strangely enou.. |
| Oct 14 | Vale VDB Sorry to hear of VDB's death, which is currently under investigation . Speculation really gets us nowhere, and it's far too early to know exactly why or how. Let's just say his was a wonderful talent, but that he possibly pushed himself - or was push.. |
| Oct 14 | Astana 2009 - we all know they were clean, now they'll prove it I'm sure the Astana team will welcome this great opportunity to prove that they won Le Tour fair and square . For the record, several teams are in focus for their controlled syringe disposals, with Astana singled out at the moment as syringe content .. |
| Sep 18 | Not to mention the Ukrainians who were pinged for 'banned substances' Well I never. Fancy the Ukranians pulling their team out of the Tour de l'Avenir after 3 'individual' offences and a team 'therapist' allegedly 'practising medicine'. The Ukrainian team did not start the race's eighth stage on Saturday, and were subj.. |
| Sep 18 | Been quiet for a while - then BANG! Ribeiro, Nozal and Guerra positive.. What can I say? Legalise it? Control it? Ban it? Pick one, or perhaps 2. The winner of the Tour of Portugal and two of his teammates have tested positive for EPO-CERA. The Continental team Liberty Seguros has been hit with three doping cases, as Nuno.. |
| Aug 25 | Unusual BB design... via JP Weigle: What were they thinking? What were they thinking? Originally uploaded by jp weigle I just have to share this, it's too bizarre to hold inside. The long, thin cranks are interesting, the chainring is fascinating, but the bottom bracket is just... in the wrong spot! Not to me.. |
| Aug 14 | Performance - no, not the Nicholas Roeg film of the same name Funny? I almost laughed myself off my '88 steel frame... uh, paperweight. Definitely worth a look-see... |
| Aug 1 | KIrk O'Bee says sorry for something We don't know what for but he's sorry anyway... Bissel Pro Cycling has announced the immediate dismissal of rider Kirk O’Bee for violation of his contract, implying that the rider has broken anti-doping regulations. While the team didn’t go in to det.. |
| Aug 1 | This had to happen eventually - the post-Tour drug debacle Here we go again. Innocent until proven guilty, as always. Mud sticks, though. On Friday, the UCI announced that Astarloza tested positive for recombinant EPO, a blood booster, in an out-of-competition control. He is the second rider from the Euskalt.. |
| Jul 30 | Local climb data - Sydney and Central Coast Not sure of the absolute veracity of some of this data - or where it came from, actually - but you can take these figures as a starting point anyway. (Take the records with a grain of salt.) Then buy yourself an i-Bike (or similar) and check it out f.. |
| Jul 28 | 15 Le Tour 2008 samples to be retested We already knew that 30 riders were in the frame for biological passport anomalies, now we know that 15 riders are being targeted from the 2008 Tour de France as well. (There may or may not be some overlap here as we have different agencies at work -.. |
| Jul 27 | Cyclocrosser Albert thinks it impossible to win w/o dope Well ain't that a shock? A cyclocrosser - albeit a really good one - thinks that the top road guys can't win Le Tour without some assistance. Well it could be training, teamwork, nutrition - whatever - but it could also be something else. How would w.. |
| Jul 27 | Ex-Serbian cycling coach arrested in doping raid Just thought that this was interesting... obviously no comment of course... The Associated Press: Cops arrest ex-Serbia cycling coach in doping raid : "ROME — Italian police have arrested Serbia's former national cycling coach in an alleged doping ri.. |
| Jul 22 | Russian federation acts on 3 cases Cyclingnews.com reports that the Russian cycling federation has acted on 3 cases: Ilnur Zakarin , 19 years old and European junior time-trial champion in 2007, was suspended two years after testing positive for the forbidden anabolic methandienone. T.. |
| Jul 8 | FWIW, my take on Le Tour 2009, up to Stage 4 What did you expect the TTT to do to the GC? We always knew - because this always happens - that the strongest TTT teams - like Astana, Garmin, Columbia and Saxo - would dominate. By definition that means time gains - big ones - for GC riders embedde.. |
| Jul 2 | Here we go again - Dekker's EPO problem Well it was 2 years ago, almost: Dutch cyclist Thomas Dekker has failed a drugs test for the performance-improving hormone erythropoietin and been scrapped from his team for this year's Tour de France race. The test relates to a urine sample given in.. |
| Jun 26 | It's true, but do we have to say it? French MTBer Jean-Christophe Peraud has claimed the road cycling title at his nation's champs, and reflects upon his advancing years: I'll be 35 in 2012. Cycling is an endurance sport suitable for old athletes but I'll wait for one more year to deter.. |
| Jun 18 | UCI names names in biological passport program It had to happen. It's almost Le Tour time: Lampre's Pietro Caucchioli and Fuji-Servetto's Ricardo Serrano have been suspended their teams after being named by the UCI as riders who showed abnormal values in the year-old system. Both teams stated tha.. |
| Jun 18 | Bazayev does a Chicken and forgets where he is...or should be Astana enforce the 'make sure you tell us where you are' rule: PARIS, June 15 - Astana have suspended their Kazakh rider Assan Bazayev for two weeks because he did not provide thorough information on his whereabouts for the purposes of drug testing. .. |
| Jun 11 | Doper Kohl says what they all say - it's not just me! It's everybody! Of course you'd be thinking that - how else do you come to terms with the unethical practice of cheating? Especially so at a very public, very high-profile race like Le Tour? Whilst there's some merit in the argument that if I can only come 3rd, and .. |
| Jun 10 | Katusha's Colom caught out by blood passport, A-sample suggests EPO Not-so-funny coincidences: first Pfannberger gets caught out, then the Katusha 5X salary penalty contract is proposed, now Colom is pinged for an A-sample. Team Katusha's Antonio Colom has been provisionally suspended by the UCI following a positive .. |
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| May 6 | Astana rumoured to fold b4 Le Tour.. and Armstrong confident abt start.. I'm sure that the Astana team will find a stop-gap sponsor between now and July, should it need one, to ensure a start at Le Tour. It has to be a worthwhile investment, surely? With a team of stars, including Armstrong, how could you fail to get ROI .. |