The 2007 edition of the Dauphine is exceeding expectations. One team is standing out above the others: Astana.
Vinokourov, Kashechkin, and now Colom have made their mark on the race. The only racer close to making such an impression: Frenchman Christophe Moreau. It must be mentioned that no one’s walking away with this – there are [...]

Looks like a few folks will be going on a little vacation this July. Some time of the bike, perhaps? Some rest in order?
Bosses from cycling’s biggest teams met behind closed doors Wednesday night in an effort to fend off potential surprises ahead of next month’s Tour de France.
Following rumors that more riders [...]

Oh hell.
The three riders who produced ‘non-negative’ results during the three-week Giro d’Italia were Spaniard Iban Mayo and Italians Alessandro Petacchi and Leonardo Piepoli. For the Spaniard from the Basque country, winner of stage 19 to Comano Terme, the urine sample tested produced high levels of testosterone.
Source: cyclingnews.com
I’d say something like I’m waiting for [...]

There is a pretty good doping article today over at Velonews. I hope this is the beginning of Dawn Richardson’s writings on the subject. There is a lot more to be said, and it seems Ms. Richardon has just touched the tip of it in this piece.
For four years I’ve been [...]

The shit is hitting the fan.
Additional searches by Belgian authorities have turned up more prohibited substances, and two people remain in custody following this week’s raids near Kortrijk. Authorities are claiming to have found just the ‘tip of the iceberg’, and are holding ex-racers Rik Coppens and Pierre Herinne as alleged dealers. The pair, both [...]

OK, let’s get this straight as reported in Velonews. T-Mobile fields a top tier cycling team for about $12 million (a mentioned figure of the cost for a top tier team, I don’t know the real numbers). They also dump $1 million Euros into sponsoring the Tour de France within Germany.
Now, because of the [...]

A reader submission:
From: Eric
have you seen this? Bill Strickland over at Bicycling, soft-pedaling his implicit first-hand knowledge of doping…
sittingin.bicycling.com
pardon my french, but what a fucking wanker. and yeah that’s me shouting from the soapbox in the comments.
I know a bit about doping as well. And what I’ve always said is everyone is [...]

I just read that Bjarne Riis’s name is to disappear from the official Tour de France publications. I don’t think this is a good idea. Sure, it’s your race and you can do whatever you want with it. But what we all need, in all of cycling, is the truth. [...]

The good time just keep on trunkin’

Former Team Telekom soigneur Jef d’Hont is not backing down in his attempt to force a confession from Jan Ullrich. d’Hont appeared on German TV again on Tuesday evening where he once again pointed the finger at the 1997 Tour de France winner. “I repeat: in the second half [...]

I hate to say it, but this whole thing starts making sense when I sit back, look at it all, and the pieces seem to fit together. A recent study found a link between the use of human growth hormone and testosterone. Is in, the testosterone complements the growth hormone. It is, [...]

Somehow I have a hard time believing him. How could he not know what was going on all around him?

“I neither organized nor financed doping in our team,” former Telekom Team Manager Walter Godefroot said at a press conference in Gent, Belgium, Tuesday. He denied having encouraged or introduced doping within the team.
Source: [...]

More emails:

From: Jim
My admiration of Paul Kimmage’s writing and ethos is diminished by his rude contempt for the “wannabees” who make cycling unique as the spectator sport that’s more than almost any other a spectacle watched by those who also participate. The contempt he pens towards the balding fat guys who labor up l’alp d’Huez [...]

I’ll say this: Riis was a rockstar in 1996

I originally posted this vid on the old html site a week or so ago. I got an email about it today, and why the hell not just post that shit?

From: Mike
Subject: Rockstar Riis
Ok. So he aced Big Mig. And we know he was epo’d up. [...]

Patrick Brady had a piece in the LA times yesterday regarding doping. He suggests offering an amesty for former pros to come clean. There has to be some way to allow the truth to come out and overcome this “code of silence” bullshit.
Anyone who believes that Riis didn’t use EPO on his way to [...]

You just knew this one was coming:

Riis ejected from Danish sports hall of fame
The 1996 Tour de France winner and Team CSC director, Bjarne Riis, has been removed from the Danish sports hall of fame, following his admission of doping earlier this week. According to Danmarks Radio, the president of the commission which [...]

The key stage that mostly decided the Giro was wednesday’s climb of the Zolcan. What an excellent time to test the riders. So they actually did.
First we have this Link, in which the Italian Olympic Committee focuses not on “any” rider, but the premier riders; Danilo Di Luca, Eddy Mazzoleni, Riccardo Ricco and Gilberto Simoni.
Now [...]

I think this is a mistake. We need to find ways to reward those who come forward and tell the truth. Even if it is ten years after the fact.
Why do you think former pros sit on there thumbs when this shit comes out? They know their jobs are at stake for things they did [...]

Another one in via email. I can’t wait to get this kid up and running.
Did you listen to this yet?
competitorradio.com/details.php?show=21
Lemond has ADD .. so he sort of speaks in phrases and he sort of instantaneously drifts his ideas from phrase to phrase, but if you listen to the disjointed phrasing and sort of put [...]

Source: cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/may07/may29news
Two-time Tour of Flanders winner Edwig Van Hooydonck has rubbished claims by Johan Museeuw that he only used performance enhancing drugs during the final year of his career. Following a series of allegations in January from Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, Museeuw admitted to “not being 100 percent honest” during his final season with [...]

I found these links to some fine Paul Kimmage writings in the Velonews forum an hour or so ago. So thank some cat name “splitwheels” for all this.
[kimmage 1] timesonline.co.uk
[kimmage 2] timesonline.co.uk
[kimmage 3] timesonline.co.uk
[kimmage 4] timesonline.co.uk
[kimmage 5] timesonline.co.uk
[kimmage 6] timesonline.co.uk
The funniest thing I read today was how Ullrich cheated his way into second.
Oh, [...]