Danilo Di Luca, currently the second-placed finisher in May’s Giro d’Italia, has had the date of his hearing in front of an anti-doping tribunal from the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) set. The 33-year-old from Spoltore in the province of Abruzzo […]
2003 world champion Igor Astarloa has said that he is almost certain to retire from professional cycling. “The most likely thing is that I won’t continue next year,” the 33 year old said, according to Biciciclismo. “It’s 90% sure that […]
David Millar has won an appeal against the lifetime ban that prevented him from taking part in the Commonwealth Games. The appeal, that was initiated by Scottish Cycling, was handed down by Scotland’s games council for Millar’s use of performance […]
Nery Felipe Velásquez, the winner of the Vuelta a Guatemala in October, tested positive for Boldenone, an anabolic steroid. The sample was analyzed by a lab in Canada and was the only one of the ten samples taken that showed […]
Rasmus Damsgaard, the man who’s partnership with Bjarne Riis helped pioneer anti-doping efforts in cycling, will no longer be working with the Saxo Bank team in 2010. Instead, Damsgaard’s company Clearidium will be working directly for the International Cycling Union […]
The anti-doping prosecutor in Italy has asked the Italian Olympic Committee’s (CONI) anti-doping tribunal to impose a three-year ban on former Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca. The Italian tested positive for the banned blood-booster EPO in samples taking during […]
Wednesday morning former Rabobank riders Michael Boogerd and Thomas Dekker were questioned by Austria’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) as part of their investigation into the blood doping ring revolving around Bernard Kohl’s manager Stefan Matschiner and the blood bank HumanPlasma. Dekker is […]
The International Cycling Union (UCI), former UCI president Hein Verbruggen and former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Dick Pound have agreed to settle out of court over comments made by Pound on anti-doping efforts by the UCI. Verbruggen had taken […]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has announced the hearing dates for the two arbitration procedures involving the Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde. The hearing in the case between Valverde and CONI/UCI/WADA will take place from 12 to 14 January […]
1987 Tour de France winner Stephen Roche is well known for having been an intelligent, intuitive rider who won with his head and his legs, and so it is unsurprising that he is opposed to the use of race radios. […]
The possibility of further sanctions being imposed in the Operación Puerto case has taken a blow with the news that the Provincial Court of Madrid has rejected appeals relating to the case. WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the UCI and […]
On the day that the Portuguese Anti-Doping Authority announced a greater transparency for the results of rider controls, a rider from one of the country’s Continental teams has been provisionally suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI). Eladio Jimenez Sanchez […]
Portugal has had a reputation as one of the countries with doping problems in sport, and this perception has been increased following a number of raids on cycling teams in the country. In a bid to show that the country […]
Biondo facing two-year ban for EPO positive The Italian Olympic Committee’s anti-doping prosecutor recommended a two-year ban on Friday for Ceramica Flaminia-Bossini Docce cyclist Maurizio Biondo, who tested positive for the banned blood-booster EPO earlier this year. Biondo was caught […]
The UCI has once again stated that it is not willing to work with the French anti-doping agency AFLD on next year’s Tour de France, and wants to do the controls itself. “In the 2009 Tour, we tried to collaborate […]
“Athletes who cheat and those who assist them are much more likely to get caught,” IOC president Jacques Rogge claimed at today’s WADA meeting in Stockholm. The Belgian was speaking on the same day that WADA launched its biological passport […]
Basque team Euskaltel-Euskadi will start its own anti-doping program on January 1, 2010. The team deemed it necessary after two if its riders, Iñigo Landaluze and Mikel Astarloza, were caught doping this season. On Monday, the respective old and new […]
Despite vowing earlier this month to fight to keep his Olympic medal, Italian rider Davide Rebellin has now handed back the silver he won in Beijing 2008. He has also made the 75,000 prize he earned available to CONI, the […]
