Tag Archives: Doping

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From Lance to Landis to Walsh

This piece originally appeared on irishpeloton.com on 3 April 2013 Earlier this year I had an online conversation with an editor of a popular cycling news website. The exchange involved…

illustration by Anders Bendixen

Foot-in-mouth disease casts pall over great racing

The road to hell is paved with best intentions, and the current state of cycling shows us that many people with the best of intentions are making grandiose comments, revising…

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Is there a doctor in the house?

Updated 14 March 2013 A few days ago, Irish journalist Paul Kimmage congratulated Daniel Benson of Cyclingnews for being the only journalist to ask Sky rider Mat Hayman about his…

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Biopassport failure to flag Armstrong – advanced class

fer the advanced kids raggin on the entry level explanation of the ABP software for the deeper understandin check WADA operating guidelines and the free text review then consider this figure…

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Armstrong biopassport coverup

now that the uci has gone on record that armstrongs 2009 tdf biopassport never made it to expert review: Armstrong’s blood profile was never submitted to bio-passport experts after May…

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Why the biopassport software didn’t flag Lance Armstrong

Another explainer from Doc @veloclinic showing in pretty simple terms why the UCI is full of shit when they say the biopassport program works.  * * * * * please note…

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Pointing the Finger – Who are the organised criminals?

By Martin Hardie As Spain’s Operacion Puerto trial neared the end of its second week, the Australian Crime Commission has released a report that exposes what it calls widespread doping…

The speed of forgiveness

By Benjamin Berry Ben Berry is a business analyst for OptumHealth and a triathlete with a passion for all things cycling. Once a fan and supporter of Lance Armstrong and…

Jan, Johan, yellow cupcakes, and a life post-Oprah

In his second column for Cyclismas, Saddleblaze – aka Eurosport’s Blazin’ Saddles – weighs up the reponse of both Jan Ullrich and Johan Bruyneel in the wake of Lance Armstrong’s…

Bruyneel leaves 45-minute message on UCI anti-doping hotline

By cyclodocus   UCI officials say they are unsure what to make of a rambling message left by former U.S. Postal boss Johan Bruyneel on the organisation’s new anti-doping hotline….