That Was The Year That Was

by Rant December 31, 2007

Yeah, it’s that time of year again. Everyone’s writing year-end round-ups extolling the many bizarre, strange or even wacky stories of 2007. But not me. Nope. Not gonna do it. It’s certainly been a strange year, filled with seemingly never-ending stories of doping in this sport and that. At least one big name athlete who […]

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A Lesson Lost: Landaluze and the New Rules

by Rant December 26, 2007

When the doping case against Inigo Landaluze was tossed based on a procedural error by a certain anti-doping laboratory, an opportunity occurred whereby the World Anti-Doping Agency could bolster the credibility of the whole anti-doping system by holding the labs they certify to certain generally accepted scientific requirements (including their own International Standard for Laboratories). […]

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Season’s Greetings

by Rant December 24, 2007

Not to be a grouch, but the way Christmas is celebrated (at least here in the good ol’ U. S. of A.) has always puzzled me. It’s become more of a commercial event than a commemoration of the birth of one of the most important religious figures of all time. (Even if you’re not a […]

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A Ban In France, And Mayo May Be Toast

by Rant December 19, 2007

Now that the big work is done on my other writing project, I’ve got a bit of new-found time on my hands. Still more to do, and in a few days I’ll offer up a post that gives the whole background on that other work. But in the meantime, there’s a couple of very interesting […]

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All Winning Streaks Come To An End

by Rant December 16, 2007

And so it goes for the US Anti-Doping Agency, whose record in arbitration now falls to 36 wins and one loss. Perhaps it was predictable that such a loss would come in a less publicized case than the Floyd Landis doping allegations. With extreme media scrutiny on USADA leading up to the Landis hearings in […]

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The Mitchell Report: Will It Change Things?

by Rant December 13, 2007

Today’s big doping news is the Mitchell report on steroid use in baseball. The highly anticipated (especially among the sports punditerati) 400+ page report was released this afternoon. I’ve had just a brief chance to peruse the document, which a coworker sent me about half an hour after former senator George Mitchell’s press conference. Mitchell […]

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