Danilo’s Bad Day

by Rant July 22, 2009

Danilo Di Luca had a bad day today, but it wasn’t out on the roads of the Tour de France. Di Luca and his team weren’t invited to participate in this year’s Tour, so he’s had to find other ways to practice his profession this month. Today, however, some test results from the Giro d’Italia […]

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Friday Roundup

by Rant July 17, 2009

Truth is Stranger than Fiction Dept. You just can’t make this kind of thing up. Oscar Freire and Julian Dean suffered minor injuries in today’s stage of the Tour when they were struck by some small calibre bullets (alternately describe as pellets in this article). From what I gather, they were hit on the descent […]

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The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight

by Rant July 13, 2009

So what happens when the anti-doping controllers show up in the wrong place not once, but three times, resulting in “missed tests” for an athlete? Well, if it’s the UCI, they might grudgingly acknowledge that a mistake had been made, but the person running the random testing program (or whoever’s responsible for coordinating the testing) […]

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Astana on Tour

by Rant July 7, 2009

Not much in the way of doping news in regards to this year’s Tour de France. Good thing, too. Not sure that it will stay that way until the end of the race, on July 26th when the peloton powers around the Champs-Élysées for the Grande Boucle’s  grand finale, though. But one can hope for […]

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Dekker to Fight Doping Charges

by Rant July 2, 2009

CyclingNews.com reports that Thomas Dekker is going to fight to clear his name. In comments attributed to an interview with Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Dekker said: “This should not be the end of my cycling career,” he said. “This is a very strange story,” Dekker told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. When he returned after […]

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Dekker Ousted From Silence-Lotto Tour Squad

by Rant July 1, 2009

Looks like Thomas Dekker is in a whole heap o’ trouble today. Based on retesting of an out-of-competition sample given in December 2007 and on data aquired as a result of the UCI’s biological passport program. It appears that Dekker tested positive for EPO. The Daily Peloton is reporting that he tested positive for Dynepo, […]

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