The bad news tarted with Ricardo Ricco and Leonardo Piepoli at the Tour de France, and got worse in the following weeks. Marta Bastianelli, the Women’s World Champion was next, testing positive for a banned stimulant/diet product in a test administered during the Under 23 World Championships on July 5th. Her news of her positive test [...]

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We’ve been pretty heavy into TdF race coverage lately, but there are other things happening.

Bicycle manufactuer Scott is going to step up to be the lead sponsor of the former Saunier Duval team. They believe that the doping problems with Ricco and Piepoli were related to the individuals, and they are pledging a more rigorous [...]

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Here’s some of the news from the past two weeks: 

Not that it’s news to anyone at this point, but Tom Boonen won the Paris-Roubaix on April 13th.  He is now targeting another green jersey at the Tour de France.
Saunier-Duval drops out, so Rock Racing will be at the Tour of Georgia
Danilo Di Luca has been [...]

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Here’s some of the latest news from the world of cycling:

Alberto Contador will travel to Italy to testify about his (lack of?) participation in the Operation Puerto affair. I’m sure that he’d like you to think that he’s doing this out of the goodness of his heart, but since the Tour de France dips into [...]

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CyclingNews.com reports that Alessandro Petacchi will have his next day in court on March 12, when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland, will hear appeals concerning his “non-negative” doping test from the 2007 Giro d’Italia. Both the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have appealed the Italian [...]

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