Spanish newspaper El Pais has reported that 11 people have been arrested by the Guardia Civil in connection with a new doping network. The arrests included former Kelme team doctor Walter Viru, who owns a pharmacy in Montserrat (Valencia). Viru […]
Italian cyclist Gabriele Bosisio pleaded innocent to doping charges at a hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee’s Anti-doping prosecutor on Monday. The 29-year-old tested positive for the banned blood-booster EPO during a targeted out-of-competition test in September. The test was […]
Italian cycist Gianni Da Ros has been sanctioned with an unprecedented 20-year doping ban from the National Anti-Doping Tribunal for his part in trafficking doping substances. Da Ros, 23, was arrested in March during a team run out at the […]
Austrian Christian Pfannberger won’t have to worry about doping controls anymore. The Austrian Cycling Federation announced that the suspended Katusha rider will get a lifetime ban for his two doping offenses. Herbert Kocher, financial referent of the ÖRV (Austrian Cycling […]
CONI wants a damage payment from Davide Rebellin, after the latter was caught for doping with EPO. Rebellin tested positive after the Olympic Games, where he won the silver medal. The medal has to be returned, the results are rewritten […]
“I admit my guilt, but have no regrets,” Bernhard Kohl’s former manager Stefan Matchiner told the Österreich newspaper. He’s facing a trial on charges that he helped athletes such as former Gerolsteiner rider Bernhard Kohl, triathlete Lisa Hütthaler and others […]
On the heels of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announcement yesterday that requires Italian Davide Rebellin to return his Beijing Olympic road race silver medal for a doping positive, the IOC has said they are also wiping German Stefan Schumacher’s […]
CONI, the Italian National Olympic Committee, received notification from the IOC (the International Olympic Committee) today that Davide Rebellin is no longer considered the 2008 Olympic silver medalist. Rebellin finished second in the men’s road race in Beijing, but tested […]
Austria’s sports and justice ministers announced an amendment on Monday to make the punishment for dopers more severe. In the amendment, athletes that have been caught doping would face serious fraud charges and up to 10 years in prison. Austria’s current […]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has handed Italian cyclist Matteo Priamo a four-year ban for supplying Cera to his former CSF teammate Emmanuelle Sella, an official source has said. The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) took the case to […]
A new study showing that gene therapy can increase both muscle bulk and power in monkeys has increased fears that such treatments could be abused in sport. According to a report in Science Translational Medicine, gene therapy was used to […]
Initially due to be heard in October, then put off until November 16th, the CAS hearing on Alejandro Valverde has been delayed once again. No new date has been indicated. The hearing is the first of two appeals being lodged […]
According to his local Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia, 2006 Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro was required to provide a sample for the anti-doping inspectors from the International Cycling Union (UCI) in a local restaurant. Pereiro was having dinner with […]
In a press release today the International Cycling Union (UCI) has announced that Spanish rider Alberto Fernández De La Puebla Ramos (Fuji-Servetto) has been provisionally suspended. The decision was made in response to a report from the WADA accredited laboratory in […]
After an eight hour hearing yesterday with the International Court of Sport (CAS) it has been concluded that Stefan Schumacher’s fate will not be decided until mid-December. Schumacher went to the CAS to appeal the UCI ruling which imposed a […]
The lawyer of disgraced German rider Stefan Schumacher is confident that his client will win his appeal tomorrow when the Court for Arbitration in Sport, CAS, hears the case relating to his positive test for CERA. “We are 100% right,” […]
Amino Labs, manufacturer of the nutritional supplement that caused Iljo Keisse to return a positive control for HCT (hydrochlorothiazide), were surprised by his acquittal. The manufacturer strongly believes that his positive test was not due to the use of their […]
Belgian track cyclist Iljo Keisse has been cleared of doping charges by a disciplinary committee of the Belgian Cycling Union and is now clear to continue racing. The judgement crucially comes in time for Keisse’s home six-day race: the ‘Zesdaagse […]
