Rabobank team boss Erik Breukink confirmed at the Tour de France on Sunday that star rider Denis Menchov recently gave evidence to Austrian police investigating a suspected blood doping. During last month’s Tour of Italy Menchov was handed a summons […]
Tom Boonen, Belgium’s top cyclist, has won his first battle of this year’s Tour de France – of the legal sort – allowing him to start the race in Monaco on Saturday. Last year began the cyclist’s troubles with the […]
Tom Boonen will find out on Friday whether he has been granted a last minute reprieve to compete in the Tour de France which starts in Monaco on Saturday. The former world road race champion from Belgium was barred from […]
L’Equipe, known for their inside track on positive doping results, has said that there could be four to seven more doping cases from samples taken at the Tour of Romandie and the Tour de Suisse. They said they are not […]
Yellow jersey contender Cadel Evans remains upbeat despite the unwelcome news that Silence teammate Thomas Dekker has been ruled out of the Tour de France due to a positive doping control. Dekker, a two-time Dutch champion, was set to help […]
Kazakh cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov called a press conference at team Astana’s hotel coinciding with this year’s Grand Depart for the Tour de France in Monaco. Donning a yellow t-shirt with the words “Vino is Back” emblazoned on it, the man […]
Thomas Dekker from the Silence-Lotto team has tested positive for the banned blood-booster EPO. The Dutch rider has been caught with a new testing procedure developed to detect the drug from a sample given on December 24, 2007 when he […]
In the following press release team Quick-Step responds to the doping accusations of former team member Patrik Sinkewitz. In the release they deny any wrong doing, and question the timing of the statements. PRESS RELEASE After having seen the defamatory […]
German cyclist Patrick Sinkewitz, who now rides for the PSK Whirpool team after serving his sentence for doping, has accused his former team Quick-Step of organized doping. In an interview for the German public television show “Frontal 21” aired on […]
The Tribunal de Grande Istance in Nanterre, France has declared that the Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to decide whether or not Tom Boonen can ride in the Tour de France. What this means is that Boonen and his Quick-Step […]
The Austrian Anti-Doping Agency announced Monday that cyclist Christian Pfannberger’s B-sample has come back positive for EPO, confirming the initial test. Pfannberger is no stranger to positive doping tests, having served a two-year ban from 2004-2006 for testosterone use. Since […]
The Belgian Quick-Step team has named eight riders for the 2009 Tour de France, while their ninth rider will be determined by a French judge tomorrow. Frenchmen Sylvain Chavanel and Jerome Pineau have both had a an excellent early season, […]
Italian Riccardo Ricco, who is currently serving a doping ban, was reported by Tuttosport to contract with the Irish-Italian cycling team Ceramica Flaminia. Ricco was suspended in October 2008 by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) after he tested positive for […]
Next Tuesday June 30th the judge will decide whether the Amaury Sports Organization (ASO) can keep Belgian Tom Boonen out of this year’s Tour de France. Boonen was caught with cocaine in his system during an out of competition doping […]
According to his agent, Olivier Onderbeke, Kenny Dehaes has signed a one year contract with Belgian team Silence-Lotto. The mid-season move came about when his former team Katusha added a mandatory stipulation to their contract requiring the cyclists to pay […]
Controversial Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde will not take part in this year’s Tour de France, his Caisse d’Epargne team announced on Tuesday. His absence removes a potentially embarrassing stand-off as the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) last month banned Valverde from […]
Belgium’s former world road race champion Tom Boonen is to appear here at a court on Thursday, in a bid to reverse the ban on him competing in the Tour de France by the race organisers, the rider’s lawyer said […]
The French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) has been hard at work with scientists again, and claims that it will have a test for a previously undetectable banned substance in the near future. “A method and a product that doping cyclists believe […]
