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By VeloNews.com Published 10 mins ago comments Tweet Share Share Print Dick Pound says he complained for years about advance notice given riders about drug testing. Photo: AFP (file) LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Cycling’s governing body set up a drug testing system that was designed to fail and allow Lance Armstrong and other riders to [...]
view thumbnail gallery Cycling Australia admits naivety in its own reviews The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) was not able to investigate Floyd Landis’ claims involving Matt White due to the allegations also being pursued by its United States’ equivalent as well as the failed Federal investigation. In May 2010, Cycling Australia received correspondence from [...]
WADA chairman Dick Pound Photo: © AFP view thumbnail gallery Says timing of doping controls during races also suspicious Former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound has said that it “is not credible” that the UCI did not know about doping in the peloton. He also blamed the scheduling of doping controls and race stages [...]
By VeloNews.com Published 9 hours ago comments Tweet Share Share Print David Millar says the UCI must accept responsibility, starting with Hein Verbruggen’s departure from the organization. Photo: Casey B. Gibson | www.cbgphoto.com LONDON (AFP) —British cyclist David Millar called for the honorary president of the Union Cycliste Internationale to step down as the UCI [...]
view thumbnail gallery USADA set to hand UCI case file The director of the American Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Travis Tygart, has confirmed that he has received three death threats since opening a case against Lance Armstrong and several other individuals linked to the former US Postal team. In an exclusive interview with French L’Equipe, Tygart [...]
By VeloNews.com Published 4 hours ago comments Tweet Share Share Print Lance Armstrong will take part in the September 30 Superfrong Triathlon in California. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.com Lance Armstrong, whom the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency handed a lifetime ban in August, will take the start at the Superfrog Triathlon in Coronado, California, later this [...]
Leading Armstrong to Paris in the Tour de France view thumbnail gallery French TV show claims American agency retested Armstrong’s samples Stade 2, the weekly television sports show by France 2, claims that the American Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) is in possession of blood samples from Lance Armstrong, which they have retested and have now come [...]
UCI President Pat McQuaid speaks to the press view thumbnail gallery UCI President backtracks, awaiting USADA evidence Pat McQuaid has for the first time gone on record stating that the UCI could ban Lance Armstrong if USADA follow through and provides the relevant evidence to back their lifetime ban of the former cyclist. Armstrong was [...]
Phil Liggett is at the race this week for the Versus TV coverage. view thumbnail gallery Ashenden calls commenator’s claims ‘ignorant’ USADA has issued a stinging response following veteran cycling commentator Phil Liggett’s interview where the 69-year-old suggested that witnesses had been paid for giving evidence against Lance Armstrong in the agency’s investigation into doping [...]
A pensive Lance Armstrong view thumbnail gallery Recommends Tour titles not be reassigned The French Cycling Federation (FFC) released a statement today in which they “praised the perseverance of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)”, in reference to USADA’s decision last week to permanently ban Lance Armstrong and strip him of his seven Tour de France [...]
