doping


The truth is coming out...

Australia is waking up to the fact there's a doping epidemic across all sports and not just cycling:
http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21363100

How long before the rest of the world realises too? The revelations are being kept secret in Operacion Puerto for now, that would make people realise cycling is just a scape goat for other sports, but surely it's only a matter of time?

I read a brilliant, albeit American focused piece this week this week and we need to stop talking about cycling's doping problem and talk about sport's doping problem:

Sir Chris Hoy: we should "break the chain" with dopers

Doesn't want tarnished riders back in the sport

Michael Rasmussen admits doping between 1998 and 2010

Man kicked off 2007 Tour de France while in maillot jaune can help ensure clean future for cycling, says his team

Fränk Schleck receives one-year ban for failed Tour de France doping test

RadioShack rider tested positive for diuretic during last year's race; partially backdated ban means free to compete in mid-July

Lance Armstrong offers to help 'clean up cycling'

Disgraced cyclist must testify under oath by February 6

Lance Armstrong 'will admit doping to stage a comeback'

Reportedly told friends he would publicly acknowledge his cheating… but there are likely to be strings attached

Doping: Padua magistrate says nothing has changed in cycling

Italian investigator says doping still rampant, including two new undetectable variants of EPO

Lance Armstrong decides not to appeal his ban or loss of titles for doping

Misses December 27 deadline to lodge an appeal - now Olympic committee can strip him of his bronze medal too

Banned doping doctor defends Armstrong, says he 'saw nothing'

Added that he is also considering a legal challenge to his lifetime sports medicine ban