There will be no cycling action in Beijing until the men’s and women’s time trial events tomorrow, but there is, as usual, plenty going on:

Yes, I’d probably have a panic attack, too: Old news by now, but Maria Isabel Moreno arrived at the Olympics on July 30th, got tested the next day, and pretty much immediately flew [...]

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Setting themselves up for a clash with the UCI, the Spanish cycling federation has decided against sanctioning Iban Mayo despite a positive result on his “B” sample from this year’s Tour de France.
The federation had already made the decision to close Mayo’s case after a laboratory in Ghent, Belgium found the “B” sample inconclusive.
Eugenio Bermudez, [...]

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Will Iban Mayo race in 2008? Most likely “no” as his B-sample from the Tour de France has come back positive for EPO. The always reliable French doping lab in Chatenay-Malabry carried out both tests after a library in Ghent, Belgium found the B sample inconclusive. There’s some good, fair and impartial testing for you.Â
How [...]

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