Floyd Landis Reaches the End of the Line

by Rant January 18, 2011

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Floyd Landis officially retired from professional cycling. Given that he didn’t have a pro contract for much of the last year, and that he only raced intermittently as an unaffiliated rider in 2010, you might already have thought that he was retired. With the revelations of last […]

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New Year’s On My Mind

by Rant December 27, 2010

A whole lot has happened in the month since I last posted here. Masters racers have admitted to doping or been busted for the same. The latest in the ongoing Floyd Landis saga is that he wore a wire for the Feds as they investigated Michael Ball. (No wonder Landis wore body armor at the […]

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Food For Thought

by Rant November 28, 2010

A familiar face is making news again, at least in the cycling press. And some of what he has to say ties into a current scandal involving the 2010 Tour de France winner, if only indirectly. But before we get to that, I’ve been thinking about something that might be more grist for the mill […]

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The Rundown

by Rant November 15, 2010

I just got done reading an interesting article from the December issue of Runner’s World, one which offers some interesting parallels to the cycling world. But before I get to that, a few comments on what’s been happening in the world of cycling lately. Although I’m late to the party on a few of these […]

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The Never Ending Saga

by Rant November 4, 2010

Well, it sure has been a while, hasn’t it? Thanks to everyone who’s kept coming back and commenting on the doings in the world of doping over the last few weeks. Me, I think I’ve got a bit of “doping fatigue” as it were. Sometimes I think about writing a post, and then it takes […]

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Doing the Math

by Rant October 15, 2010

I ate some contaminated meat. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. So says Alberto Contador, the (current, anyway) 2010 Tour de France champion who appears to have tested positive for clenbuterol on the second rest day of this year’s Tour. Could it be that he ate some beef or veal that contained clenbuterol. […]

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