10.17.2007 9:59 pm
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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