Your Passport, Please

by Rant October 25, 2007

One of the interesting ideas that came out of the Doping Summit held earlier this week in Paris was that of creating a “biological passport” for each professional cyclist (or more likely, each cyclist on the ProTour teams, if the ProTour doesn’t implode on itself). The theory is that by keeping track of various hormone […]

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UCI: When It Positively Has To Be Positive

by Rant October 23, 2007

After news yesterday that Iban Mayo’s B sample came back negative, the UCI is saying it ain’t so. As VeloNews.com reports: Officials from the UCI on Tuesday, however, insisted that follow-up tests of “B” samples aren’t completed yet and there’s more to be done before the once-mighty Basque is fully in the clear. “The second […]

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Mayo B Samples Come Back Negative

by Rant October 22, 2007

In case you haven’t already heard, Iban Mayo’s B sample tests came back negative today. The tests were a counter-analysis of a sample taken during the Tour de France that allegedly tested positive for EPO when initially analyzed at France’s anti-doping laboratory (LNDD). It took about two months for the labs involved in the B […]

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Taking His Marbles and Running Away

by Rant October 20, 2007

Jean-Francois Lamour, the former French sports minister who was also a World Anti-Doping Agency vice president and presumably the man who would replace Dick Pound, made news this week by angrily dropping out of contention for the top job at WADA. Lamour tossed a few verbal grenades as he skulked out the door. From CyclingNews.com, […]

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Making The Tour Safe For … Who?

by Rant October 17, 2007

Today the AFLD announced that they would re-open their case against Floyd Landis, filed in September 2006, accusing the American cyclist of doping during Stage 17 of that year’s Tour de France. The French anti-doping agency filed their case even though USADA was pursuing a case against Landis for the same offense, due to a […]

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More Required Reading

by Rant October 16, 2007

I’ve been busy tonight, working on an interview that will be appearing here in the near future, so I don’t have much time for writing a “full length” Rant. A couple of articles came out in the last 24 hours or so that should be required reading for any student of the Floyd Landis case. […]

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