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Lance Armstrong and Oprah Winfrey Photo by Maryse Alberti, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

Armstrong: My fall from grace cleaned up cycling – but it wasn’t worth it

Disgraced Tour winner describes himself as a 'convict of the road', forced to take performance enhancing drugs

Sun, Jun 29, 2014 11:50
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Syringe

‘Perfect’ EPO blood-doping detection system in the pipeline?

A Glasgow University team believe they've cracked erythropoietin detection + Texans improve steroid and stimulant screen 1000 fold

Tue, Mar 25, 2014 17:56
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Syringe

Four-year ban for Russian rider Serebryakov after two EPO positives

Rider left Euskaltel-Euskadi in April after UCI announced first positive result; second came after 2012 sample retested

Thu, Dec 26, 2013 13:59
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Roberto Heras after winning the 2009 Brompton World Championship

Roberto Heras suing Spanish authorities for €1m for 2005 Vuelta ‘positive’

Former Liberty Seguros rider was stripped of title but supreme court last year overturned his ban on a technicality

Mon, Dec 16, 2013 23:43
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Danilo Di Luca (copyright Gian Mattia d’Alberto:LaPresse:RCS Sport)

Prosecutors seek lifetime ban for Danilo Di Luca

Italian tested positive for EPO during this year's Giro - and he's been banned twice before

Mon, Oct 14, 2013 17:20
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Marco Pantani (Wikimedia Commons:Hein Ciere)

Marco Pantani’s parents warn authorities not to strip son of 1998 Tour de France win

Late cyclist who did 1998 Tour/Giro double expected to be confirmed as testing positive for EPO in 1998 Tour

Tue, Jul 02, 2013 12:43
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UCI logo on white

UCI rejects Riccardo Riccò’s claims that 44 more riders tested positive during 2008 Tour de France

Italian was one of four riders sanctioned after 2008 Tour - but he says dozens others failed doping controls too

Tue, Jun 25, 2013 18:26
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London 2012 Anti-Doping Laboratory (picture credit LOCOG)

EPO competitor pill from UK’s biggest drugs firm fools body into behaving as if at altitude

GlaxoSmithKline reported to have already alerted WADA to product that will be used to treat conditions such as anameia

Sat, Apr 20, 2013 13:21
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Syringe

Doping: Padua magistrate says nothing has changed in cycling

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

Wed, Jan 02, 2013 08:35
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Syringe

Academic study claims no evidence that EPO boosts performance of elite cyclists

Notion that EPO helps win races "rather naïve," says academic... but what if everyone else is on it?

Thu, Dec 06, 2012 12:17
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