The Curt Flood of Cycling

by Rant October 7, 2007

In a comment on my previous post, reader Luc asks one of the most incisive questions about the whole sad Marion Jones saga: [H]ow do we trust an athlete that says he is clean? That’s an excellent question, which I’ll leave everyone to think about for a day or so. In the meantime, there’s another […]

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Marion Jones Admits To Doping

by Rant October 4, 2007

I suppose, given that at one time Marion Jones was coached by Trevor Graham and she was once involved with Tim Montgomery, it’s no great shock that Jones apparently admitted to her close friends and family that, yes, she did dope back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Amy Shipley of the Washington Post […]

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Deconstructing The Landis Decision

by Rant October 3, 2007

If you haven’t already seen it, Judge William (Bill) Hue, who’s been following and commenting on the Floyd Landis case for some time, has published a deconstruction of the arbitrator’s decision in the Floyd Landis case over at Trust But Verify. Judge Hue, along with TBV, wrote a series of articles earlier this year called […]

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Twos-day + 1

by Rant October 2, 2007

A few articles caught my eye over the last couple of days. In one, a different form of anti-doping test is proposed. It sounds interesting, but there’s at least on major gotcha that I’d want to see overcome before such a test being adopted. And then there’s an alternate take on the alleged positive test […]

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Like A Sieve

by Rant September 29, 2007

Information that should be confidential seems to just pour out of a certain anti-doping lab in a certain Parisian suburb. The latest story to hit the news via the LNDD-L’Equipe nexus is a claim that Michael Rasmussen returned a “non-negative” result for Dynepo from one of his anti-doping tests at the 2007 Tour de France. […]

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As The Wheel Turns

by Rant September 28, 2007

Do you ever get the feeling that the world of professional cycling is turning into a tawdry soap opera? If you’ve been following the controversy and events surrounding the world championships this week in Stuttgart, Germany, it would be hard not to. The bluff and bluster over who will or won’t be allowed to start […]

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