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Daphne Schrager, 2024 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships (cropped)

British Paracycling world champion handed two year doping ban despite proving banned substance was taken inadvertently, ingested through contamination and not performance-enhancing

Daphne Schrager says she has "conducted her career with honesty and integrity" but that the burden of proof in cases such as hers is too high.

Fri, Jul 24, 2026 19:23

Tour de France nighttime doping tests “harming sporting integrity”, claims Visma sports director – after UCI insists 2am controls “justified” and essential to “fight against doping”

Following criticism from the riders’ union, the governing body said it will “continue to support the ITA in carrying out its mission, in full and complete respect for its independence, in the service of a cleaner and more credible sport of cycling”

Wed, Jul 22, 2026 22:50

Skoda renames Peak District ‘Peaq District’ and offers free cycle hire to celebrate launch of 2.5 tonne “ultimate SUV”; Vaughters: 2am drug tests would have saved cycling; Mass Tour de France rest day tests; McNulty hit by driver + more on the live blog

Today’s edition of your favourite cycling live blog is coming at you from the shores of Lake Geneva, where Ryan Mallon will be spending the day gawping at fancy TT bikes… and keeping you entertained when he finds some time

Tue, Jul 21, 2026 09:18

Judge signed off on Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard’s nighttime doping tests due to “serious suspicions” before Tour de France, according to reports

The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Paris has confirmed to L'Équipe confirmed that the judge was contacted by the International Testing Agency to authorise the 2am and 5am drug tests

Mon, Jul 20, 2026 17:44

Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard before stage 1, 2025 Tour de France

Could Jonas Vingegaard quit cycling after a second bad crash?; Andy Burnham’s Transport Secretary Speculation; Doping suspicions at the Tour; Mad Transcontinental aero set-up + more on the live blog

After too many technical gremlins, or ghosts in the machine, to think of, Callum is here getting the live blog up and running. He just wishes Jonas Vingegaard could still be in the running across the channel...

Mon, Jul 20, 2026 11:46

Tour de France drug testers branded “inhumane” for waking Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard at 5am and 2am – as Remco Evenepoel says he “would have carried on sleeping”

“I got four hours of sleep today… It was definitely not nice to be woken up in the middle of sweet dreams,” yellow jersey Pogačar said

Sun, Jul 19, 2026 16:00

Virtual cyclists set to face random drug tests as MyWhoosh launches first ever anti-doping programme for e-cycling

MyWhoosh, which hosts the UCI Esports World Championships, says their anti-doping policy will start this weekend, in a bid to “strengthen trust in elite virtual racing and protect clean athletes”

Thu, May 07, 2026 13:18

“We do not have a doping problem”: Tadej Pogačar’s agent opposes “stupid” plans to monitor riders’ power data, insisting cycling “now has credibility”

Alex Carera and others say the use of a ‘power data passport’ will “create only problems”, though the International Testing Agency has sought to assuage these concerns, suggesting the voluntary trial could become mandatory protocol over time

Tue, Mar 03, 2026 17:01

Cycling doping cases fall, but anti-doping group warns of “grey areas” and “increased medicalisation”

The MPCC also say they're concerned by doping in the lower professional and amateur divisions

Wed, Feb 25, 2026 13:42

road.cc Podcast episode 126 (Zac Williams/SWpix.com)

“Cheating will be part of cycling forever”: MPCC president Emily Brammeier on anti-doping, tackling the ‘grey area’, and making clean sport the norm

“The cycling fan in me, the little girl in me, wants to say we will have a clean sport one day, but you have to be realistic. It’s human nature”

Thu, Feb 19, 2026 18:54