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10.17.2007 9:59 pm

UCI follows Slipstream’s lead

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Slipstream-Chipotle, the American anti-doping cycling team, has an independent drug-testing system in which its riders receive drug tests on a weekly basis, not only to  prove they race clean but  also to build a data basis of each cyclist’s baseline…

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10.16.2007 11:51 pm

Grand doping

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s a doping dozen, a double hat trick, or maybe  just the Doping Super Grand Slam.

Whatever you want to call it,    six consecutive grand tours have been tainted  in the wake of  the  three-month suspension handed down to  2007…

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10.15.2007 11:32 pm

WADA raises the stakes

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

In the latest update of the World Anti-Doping Code, an 84-page document released Monday, the World Anti-Doping Agency has proposed increasing the ban for a first-time doping offender to four years from two years if there are “aggravating circumstances.”

According to…

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10.15.2007 2:03 pm

Inspector Clouseau in charge of French anti-doping?

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

The anti-doping dopes in France failed once again Sunday at the Paris-Tours, but unlike the Floyd Landis case, this failure turned out to be in the athletes’ favor.

Italian Alessandro Petacchi, who is at the center of a doping controversy…

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10.14.2007 10:06 pm

Doping case run amok

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

If the Floyd Landis case didn’t prove that cycling’s anti-doping programs are in need of a major overhaul, the case of Italian Alessandro Petacchi further demonstrates the  system has run amok.

Petacchi, 33,  has a therapeutic-use exemption for salbutamol to treat an asthmatic…

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10.12.2007 3:35 pm

Disco goes Kazakh

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

No surprise today with the announcement that the genius behind Lance Armstrong’s seven Tour de France titles, Johan Bruyneel, has signed on to be the general manager of the Astana Cycling team.

Bruyneel had announced his retirement in August after  Tailwind…

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10.10.2007 9:13 pm

Floyd fights on

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

The rebelliouis Mennonite  from Lancaster County  Pennsylvania will keep fighting in his quest to retain the yellow jersey he won “fair and square” at the 2006 Tour de France.

Floyd Landis announced on his website, “Floyd Fairness Fund”,  that he will…

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10.07.2007 12:01 pm

Matched set for Huff

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Springfield’s Brad Huff has a matched set of medals from the USA Cycling Track championships. He earned a bronze Saturday in madison, a 40-kilometer race, with Slipstream teammate Mike Friedman. Huff earned a gold Wednesday in team pursuit and a…

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10.05.2007 2:08 pm

More Huff-in

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri native Brad Huff just missed capturing a second title at the USA Cycling Elite track championships Thursday, finishing second in the individual pursuit. Huff, a native of Springfield, entered the final as the favorite but lost to Tyler Phinney,…

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10.04.2007 1:47 pm

Huff-in and Puffin’

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The last time most of us saw Missouri native Brad Huff, he had hit the pavement head-first in front of Union Station on the last stage of the Tour of Missouri.
We’re pleased to report that Huff seems not only…

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