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A joint operation between the Mossos, the Civil Guard and police in Andorra has uncovered a doping ring which involves some 60 professional athletes. A new report on Cadena Sur states that 42 of the clients of an internet pharmacy in Encamp are or were professional cyclists. Police tracked 536 sales of performance enhancing products [...] Padraig, over at the Red Kite Prayer, wrote a great post today comparing Pat McQuaid’s proposed rule which will prevent riders caught and banned for doping practices from working in team management in the future. When we consider the problem of doping it’s easy to look at the issue in terms of black and [...] In case anyone actually missed Tyler Hamilton’s interview on 60 Minutes last night: Tyler Hamilton Interview, part 1: Tyler Hamilton Interview, part 2: 60 Minutes Overtime Interview with Scott Pelley: Every person (with the exception of Fernando Escartin) who has finished on the podium at the Tour de France with Lance Armstrong [...] I think this is what can be referred to as a complete lack of remorse … one of those things in American courts which causes criminal sentences to be on the longer side, rather than on the shorter side. Hopefully CONI (and perhaps even the criminal justice system for once, since doping is a criminal [...] Good news is that Tom Zirbel’s sanction has been reduced, as he indicates in this except from his blog earlier today: Um well…so I guess I have some good news. Turns out I can race this year due to a string of random events that played out starting last October. Remember when I lamented on [...] There’s been a lot of chatter on various sites about Riccardo Ricco’s current “situation” … but the upshot of a lot of it is that the sport will be better off (and cleaner) without him. We’re assuming, of course, that the powers that be in the UCI and elsewhere really want to clean the sport [...] At least, that’s the most reasonable assumption, since neither rider tested positive for any performance enhancing drugs, and were banned based on other evidence … and it is pretty well known that Joe Papp provided USADA with a list of his customers during his own doping investigation. In the first announcement of the day: Neal [...] Okay … I’m not a Contador fan, and it’s doubtful I ever will be … so when I first heard the news about his positive test yesterday, part of me was overjoyed. But now more details are available; specifically the UCI release regarding the positive test, and the levels of Clenbuterol which were detected. “The [...] Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has scheduled a news conference for Thursday to address reports of an apparent positive test for the bronchodilator clenbuterol. Contador, a three-time winner of the French national tour, apparently tested positive for the drug in tests conducted on the final day of this year’s race and was notified of [...] From the New York Times: Floyd Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping, has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit against his former team — the United States Postal Service squad that included the seven-time Tour winner Lance Armstrong — claiming that the team defrauded the government, two people briefed [...] |
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