Did I read that right, eighty five to one?
Matthias Kessler’s B-sample has also tested positive for testosterone, with an equally “exorbitantly high value” as the A-sample, according to the Sueedeutsche Zeitung, leading the newspaper to say that he had “obviously been caught in flagranti.”
The German rider tested positive on April 24, and the test showed [...]

This was originally on the website spoke-n-word-cycles.com. I’m posting it here on Drunkcyclist to save them from the traffic hit linking that page will cause.
Many thanks to the fine folks at Spoke-n-Word Cycles for providing this translation.
So here we go. Der Spiegel has been publishing an incredible number of stories about doping in the [...]

Is there really “Proof of systematic doping at Mapei?”
Could be. We’ll be hearing more on this one, I’m sure of that. The truth wants to come out.
Documents have surfaced in Italy which offer proof of systematic doping by the defunct Italian Team Mapei, according to German television station ARD. [...]

The script has been flipped and Alessandro Petacchi will not be at start line of this years Tour de France. Oh, my head is spinning around in circle. He’s in, he’s out, in, back out. Are we set yet?
Alessandro Petacchi lost his spot on Milram’s Tour de France team on Wednesday [...]

This is an instant message between Frankie Andreu (FDREU) and Jonathan Vaughters (Cyclevaughters) the morning of July 26, 2005. it was was originally posted on CBC Sports Online on January 3, 2006:
Cyclevaughters: frankie – hey – thanks for talking the other day
FDREU: no problem, where are you
Cyclevaughters: back in CO
FDREU: nice, I just got [...]

I found this article titled: Beneficial effects of erythropoietin on haematological parameters, aerobic capacity, and body fluid composition in patients on haemodialysis.
To be certain, haemodialysis is serious business. Not fun at all. These were some sick people.
But look at these numbers:
Eleven patients on haemodialysis were treated with erythropoietin (EPO), 50-200 U [...]

So after a weekend of running our first ever mountain bike festival into the history books and pouring a week’s worth of Deschutes Brewing’s production down my neck I felt pretty good about the world.

Then this morning I returned to work and began the day with my usual “Coffee and Scandal” fifteen minutes on [...]

This one is definitely than worth your time.
“There are a lot of unhealthy people that are driven to sports and they are driven by their own demons, their own past. You see it in business too; I’ve known some very successful, wealthy people and they are the most unhappy people you will ever meet. They [...]

The birds are singing…
German Jörg Jaksche, one of dozens of cyclists implicated in the Operación Puerto doping scandal that erupted last year, admitted Saturday that he used banned substances for years.
“I’m Bella. It’s my blood which was found in three bags (at Dr Fuentes offices). I was a client of Dr. Fuentes from 2005 to [...]

I’d categorize this one under the heading “brutal assessment”.
Sometimes the truth hurts, don’t it?
From: SAC
Subject: Armstrong, doper?
Jonny–
Looks like the gloves are coming off…check this:
sportsillustrated.cnn.com
How long until LA is stripped of 7 TdF titles?

I’d say the possibility of Armstrong being stripped of one, if not all, of his Tour titles is, how should I [...]

Mazzoleni is out. Who had him picked? The odds were what, one to one on that?
The Astana has dropped Italian rider Eddy Mazzoleni from its nine-man Tour de France team due to doping allegations….
Mazzoleni, a strong climber, has been dropped because of his implication in a doping affair dating back to 2004.
Source: [...]

The hits just keep coming.
From: Kt
Subject: Et tu DiLuca
You read the latest on Cycling News? DiLuca recorded on tape talking w/ a
doctor about taking EPO prior to Milano-San Remo… shit just keeps sliding
downhill…
Yeah, I saw that. I’d like to say I’m surprised…
But I’m not.
In a recorded conversation from March 3, 2004, five days before Milano-Sanremo, [...]

Caught this one over at velonews.com:
With the Tour de France just weeks away, there’s a high stakes game of cat and mouse between a half-dozen so-called suspect riders identified by the UCI and anti-doping testers.
“We have targeted six, seven riders considered a high risk because of their suspicious behavior and because they could perform very [...]

This just in:
Cunego Out of Tour! The UCI insistence on riders signing the new anti-doping charter may be the beginning of a round of withdrawals from this years Tour de France.
On a side note: Cunego is looking a bit different these days. Must be on the Barry Bonds Program.

This one I may actually lay some money on the table for From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France by David Walsh.
Yeah, that David Walsh.
Walsh has spent eight years investigating the doping allegations and has on-the-record testimony of numerous named sources, including friends, team management, riders, government officials, [...]

Gonchar did a transfusion or EPO or something, and the internal blood profiling in T-Mobile caught it, and they booted him.
Usually, almost always, the teams are complicit. Usually, almost always, the teams provide the docs and the expertise and the dope itself. Then the riders may or may not do something “on top” of that. [...]

Bjarne Riis admits buying a new heart in Africa – Subtittled. Will wonders ever cease?

Just in time for the summer and sure to take care of your beach reading needs. I’d buy it, but I already know how it ends.
…“I did not use performance-enhancing drugs in the 2006 Tour de France or any other time in my career,” Landis writes in the book. “All I ever did was [...]

Basso gets two years for doping offence.
Ivan Basso has been given a suspension of 24 months by the Italian cycling federation (FCI) disciplinary commission for his involvement with Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, and will be able to resume racing October 24, 2008. The 29 year-old Italian cyclist confessed on May 7 that he had extracted the [...]