It’s got the ADAMS whereabouts system to facilitate out of competition testing, has a large emphasis on in-competition examinations and uses the biological passport as a long-running monitoring of riders. Now the UCI has added another element to its anti-doping […]
Dutch rider Thomas Dekker has admitted to using EPO and has said that he is determined to return to professional cycling after his ban ends. “I will accept that sentence and then I will start again,” he said in an […]
The B-sample requested by Dutch cyclist Thomas Dekker has confirmed his positive drug test for the banned blood-booster EPO, the ANP news agency reported on Wednesday. Dekker has accepted the findings and is awaiting his sanction, ANP reported. The 24-year-old […]
World cycling chief Pat McQuaid said the International Cycling Union (UCI) could do nothing to stop Alejandro Valverde from racing the world championships road race on Sunday. Valverde is currently serving a two-year ban in Italy handed down by the […]
This time last year Italian rider Davide Rebellin was on the eve of a victorious world championship campaign with the Italian team. The squad were the dominant ones in the Elite world championships on home soil in Varese, taking first, […]
Vuelta a España champion Alejandro Valverde will be one of the main favourites at the start of Sunday’s Elite road race at the world championships. However the newly re-elected UCI President Pat McQuaid continues to have serious doubts about the […]
Banned earlier this year from racing in Italy due to a CONI finding that some blood pouches seized during the Operacion Puerto raids matched his DNA, Alejandro Valverde will now not stay in Italy during the world road race championships. […]
Spanish team Xacobeo-Galicia released its team doctor, Alberto Beltrán. The team indicated that the drastic measure was preventative, following the doping scandal around the Portuguese Liberty Seguros team. Beltrán used to work for Liberty Seguros but replaced Xacobeo’s team doctor, […]
According to nieuwsblad.be, team Astana’s Alexandre Vinokourov would be willing to end his cycling career early for a chance to direct the team. In response, the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) President Pat McQuaid said that “Vinokourov is not on the list” […]
Cycling’s world ruling body said Friday it has suspended recently-crowned Tour of Portugal champion Nuno Ribeiro and two of his teammates from racing after they tested positive for doping. Ribeiro and Liberty Seguros teammates Hector Guerra and Isidro Nozal had […]
Recently-crowned Tour of Portugal champion, Nuno Ribeiro, tested positive for the banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin) before the race, the rider said here Friday after being notified by cycling’s world ruling body. Ribeiro also won the race in 2003 but […]
Olaf Pollack (Team Focus), former Gerolsteiner and T-Mobile professional, has been suspended by the German Cycling Federation (BDR) after testing positive in an out-competition test on July 6th. The BDR has not named the substance Pollack tested positive for. Pollack, […]
The UCI announced on Monday that Italian rider Maurizio Biondo tested positive for EPO in an out-of-competition control on August 12. The Ceramica Flaminia-Bossini rider finished second overall in the Tour of Denmark after winning the time trial in remarkable […]
A report by Austria’s Bundeskriminalamt into Bernhard Kohl’s manager, Stefan Matschiner, has revealed the names of more cyclists, according to newspapers Oberösterreichische Nachrichten and De Telegraaf. The report writes that countless blood transfusions took place in a one-room apartment in […]
Former Tour de France king of the mountains, Michael Rasmussen, has shown that he’s back in business, winning stage two of the Vuelta Ciclista Puebla San Marcos in Mexico. The Dane finished solo, almost ten minutes ahead of his Tecos-Trek […]
The counter-analysis for the Spaniard Mikel Astarloza’s B sample confirms the positive test earlier this year. He failed a World Anti Doping Agency doping control on June 26, 25 days prior to his win in the 16th stage of the […]
Italian cyclist Danilo Di Luca on Wednesday claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy after twice testing positive for banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin) during May’s Tour of Italy. Di Luca finished second in the event he previously won […]
Belgium’s top cyclist, Tom Boonen, will be able to avoid criminal charges relating to his use of cocaine by paying a 1000 euro fine, the public prosecutor in Turnhout said Wednesday. The court said if Boonen, who has now been […]
