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09.08.2008 7:40 pm

A comeback for Armstrong?

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

A rumor about a comeback by seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has been flitting around in cyberspace for a while, and Velonews.com’s Neal Rogers reports that a comeback is indeed in the works.

According to Rogers, Armstrong will appear in…

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08.05.2008 2:56 pm

Report: Sella positive for EPO-CERA

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Remember Emanuele Sella — the guy from a continental team who dominated the climbs at the Giro d’Italia?

Seems he’s tested positive for CERA, a new generation of EPO, in an out-of-competition anti-doping control, according to cyclingnews.com.

Before Ricardo Ricco of Sauner…

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07.11.2008 11:39 pm

Tour de Donut awaits 10 Speed

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

The 20th Tour de Donut is Saturday, and ol’ 10 Speed can say definitively that the annual gut-buster is not at all to blame for his Big Magnus Backside.

Nope. Ol’ 10 Speed did that without partaking in a single Tour de…

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07.11.2008 10:16 am

CAS suspends Valverde case

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

In the midst of the Tour de France comes word that the Court of Arbitration for Sports will suspend an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Union Cycliste Internationale of the Spanish cycling federation’s decision to not open…

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07.01.2008 12:55 am

Cologne lab responds to EPO study

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Prof. Dr. W. Schänzer of the Cologne lab has penned a response to the EPO study released the other day in the Journal of Applied Physiology that called into question the urine test for EPO.

The World Anti-Doping Agency e-mailed 10…

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06.26.2008 4:30 pm

EPO urine test called into question by study

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

While French anti-doping officials are stumbling over themselves testing riders in advance of the Tour de France, word comes from researchers in Denmark that the gold-standard urine test for EPO may not be so effective afterall.

The test has been used…

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03.26.2008 7:10 pm

WADA responds to UCI suit

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

The World Anti-doping Agency is none too happy that the UCI and former topper Hein Verbruggen has sued former WADA chief Dick Pound for alleged derogatory remarks.

WADA, which is sour at the UCI for not helping bankroll the U.S. Anti-Doping…

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