Doping & Pro Cycling



Tour Turned Upside Down With Doping Scandal

Friday 30 June 2006 @ 5:44 pm

Today off the wire comes the most upsetting and frustrating doping news ever that has lead to more than 20 riders being cut from this years Tour de France including Ivan Basso, Jan Ullrich, Francesco Mancebo as well as dam near the entire Wurth team leaving Alexandre Vinokourov without a team and unable to ride […]




Team Manager Manolo Saiz Busted In Huge Doping Scandal

Friday 26 May 2006 @ 3:07 pm

Yesterday a doping bombshell hit the cycling community that is as big if not bigger than the Festina scandal of 1998 said Lance Armstrong. Liberty Seguros team manager Manolo Saiz was busted on Wednesday as officials raided two of his offices and found frozen bags of blood, equipment for blood transfusions as well as anabolic […]




Doping & The Tour de France - Nobody Tested Positive 2005

Thursday 30 June 2005 @ 6:24 pm

Fantastic news coming out of France this afternoon, race medical inspector Marc Vandevyvere reported that all 189 riders passed their drug tests this year allowing all the registered riders to compete in cyclings biggest event. The race did not fair so well back in 1998 as the French cycling team Festina were caught in a […]