In a story with the Frankurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Linus Gerdemann unveils a unique plan, which he hopes will help clean up the reputation of his sport. Gerdemann, a former Tour de France stage winner and wearer of the Maillot Jaune, […]
International Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid has commented again on the ongoing struggle between the UCI and the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD). The dispute dates back to the 2009 Tour de France, where the AFLD and the UCI worked […]
Peter Janssen, former team doctor with the Vacansoleil squad, has published a book that is certain to provoke argument. His newly released work ‘Blood Form’ not only argues that the banned blood-booster is harmless, but also states that he could […]
This week saw the biggest name yet being excluded because of the biological passport, with Franco Pellizotti losing the chance to compete in the Giro and improve on his podium place of 2009. According to the UCI’s independent experts who […]
Choosing to follow the ‘attack is the best line of defence’ approach, Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde has blasted the UCI, CONI and others for their efforts to ban him in relation to Operación Puerto, and has suggested he could take […]
The Liquigas team of Franco Pellizotti, who yesterday was named as one of three riders under investigation by the UCI in relation to possible doping, has floated the possibility of taking legal action over the matter. The team issued a […]
AG2r rider Tadej Valjavec has proclaimed his innocence following the announcement of abnormal values in his Biological Passport that led to a provisional suspension by the International Cycling Union yesterday. Valjavec, 33, doesn’t hold up much hope for his cycling […]
Yesterday Italian Cycling Federation president and vice president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), Renato Di Rocco, was quoted in Italpress as saying Carlo Scognamiglio of the ISD-Neri team was one of the individuals flagged for irregularities in his Biological […]
In a blow to Italian cycling, Liquigas rider Franco Pellizotti has been axed from the Giro d’Italia roster due to suspicious parameters under the Biological Passport system, according to La Gazzetta Dello Sport. He was one of the big favourites […]
Thanks to his victory in yesterday’s Tour de Romandie, the Caisse d’Epargne leader Alejandro Valverde has moved to the top slot in the UCI’s world rankings. Valverde takes over from the Belgian Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto), who previously assumed the […]
The International Cycling Union (UCI) has named Italian Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas-Doimo), Spaniard Jesús Rosendo Prado (Andalucía-Cajasur) and Slovenian Tadej Valjavec (Ag2r-La Mondiale) as three of the riders that have had irregularities show up on their Biological Passport. According to the […]
The 25-year-old Thomas Frei was caught for EPO doping last week. The then BMC Rider was immediately fired from the team following his admission. He recently gave an open interview to the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung, in which he talked […]
It seems the time has come for the UCI Biological Passport hammer to come down. In a conversation with the news agency, Bloomberg, at the end of February, UCI President Pat McQuaid, said there was still a “handful of riders” […]
Dane Michael Rasmussen dreams of winning the Tour de France, the race his team forced him to abandon in 2007 while wearing the yellow jersey. “If Lance Armstrong can return, and maybe win the Tour de France this summer, then […]
Almost a month after suspending former world champion Alessandro Ballan and Mauro Santambrogio from racing due to their links with an Italian anti-doping investigation, the BMC Racing Team has cleared the latter for a return to competition. The squad announced […]
The Spanish press have reported that documents seized in searches for Operación Grail, a doping scandal uncovered by the Guardia Civil last November, could link Caisse d’Epargne rider Alejandro Valverde to the use of banned doping practices. Doctor Walter Virú, […]
Italian Gabriele Bosisio has been given a two-year doping ban by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) after testing positive for the banned blood-booster EPO during a targeted out-of-competition test last September. The test was instigated by the International Cycling Union […]
Giovanni Petrucci, president on the Italian Olympic Committee, is trying to increase the pressure for a decision on extending Alejandro Valverde’s (Caisse d’Epargne) two-year doping ban on Italian soil worldwide. This follows news yesterday in the Italian press of the […]
