Anti-Doping For Idiots

by Rant May 10, 2008

David Millar recently wrote at Bicycling.com that he will eventually write an “Idiots Guide to Anti-Doping.” While he’s considering what to write, here are a few random thoughts rolling around in my head. (File this under the heading “Dark Humor.”) The really condensed version of Anti-Doping for Idiots, in less than twenty five words: Doping […]

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Strange Things Brewing

by Rant May 7, 2008

Late last week came word that a “top rider” may have been nabbed for doping by the UCI’s new biological passport program. To both Pat McQuaid’s and Anne Gripper’s credit, neither divulged the name of the rider who might be facing anti-doping charges. Nor did they identify the supposed four other riders from “other disciplines” […]

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Passport, Please?

by Rant May 3, 2008

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Various news organizations are reporting that the UCI’s new biological passport program has turned up a small number of suspicious cases, which in turn have produced some doping cases that are being actively pursued. One of those cases involves a top-level professional road cyclist. In what’s a […]

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Context. It’s All About Context.

by Rant April 30, 2008

The power of the mainstream media to shape our discussion of the issues of the day can’t be understated. For this reason, journalists have a responsibility to be very careful consumers of information. Back in the early 1980s, when I was in the bootcamp known as the University of Missouri School of Journalism, this concept […]

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If I Only Had A Clue …

by Rant April 27, 2008

An amazing, but apparently true, story hits the New York Times sports pages today (no, I’m not talking about the Milwaukee Brewer home run hitter who’s a vegetarian, although that seems somewhat unusual, too). Imagine, the sport from which doping sprung may finally ban steroid use by the participants (well, to be technical, steroid use […]

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About Face

by Rant April 22, 2008

The LaTasha Jenkins case has reached its end. WADA dropped its appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, after Jenkins was cleared of doping charges late last year by an arbitration panel. According to various news articles, including this one by The Canadian Press, WADA wrote the CAS saying: “Having carefully reviewed the scientific […]

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