Bike World News

Welcome back! Here’s all of the latest road racing news, World Championships rosters as well as some updates from the Tours of Missouri, Britain and Spain.

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 home. She said it was a panic attack, but in reality, she had a drug test and knew what was going to happen. This after Spain’s Olympic director said that none of their athletes would be …

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, the federation’s secretary told the AP
“It’s not voluntary but I expect (a confrontation) to come. If there was another manner of doing this we would prefer to do it that way but there doesn’t seem …

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. 
How about Belgian rider Bjorn Leukemans? Mmm. No. Probably not. Testing of the B-sample of his urine taken just days before the World Championships has confirmed the positive analysis of synthetic testosterone. He has previously been certified …