The ramifications of doping spread out like fire through a house of sleeping people. It takes jobs, it sends people into severe moral quandaries, it exposes them to legal jeopardy that can cost then tens of thousands of dollars just for being around.
It’s a game played by narcissists that brings down the good.
From Velonews
The soigneur [...]

Charles Manantan has a new piece titled absolute bullshit over at pezcycling. I am with him for the call to create a stronger riders union that can represent the interests of the professional cycling athlete. There absolutely needs to be a strong, robust, transparent organization in place and pronto. Either through a [...]

This link comes from my man DMC in Belfast.
www.buscatube.cl/….bjarne-riis-admits-the-use-of-scunk-crack-opium–ecstasy
Ok, its a bit extreme, but if you read Willy Voet’s “Breaking the Chain” it ain’t too far off.

Yep. I kinda thought this was coming. Think Trek will want their money back?
From: www.iht.com
Tour de France organizers excluded the Astana team from competing at this year’s race Wednesday, forcing Alberto Contador to ride for another team if he wants to defend his title.
The decision to not invite Astana to the July [...]

Bombshell

This is why Dick Pound was not invited to the premiere of the latest Stallone movie:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22728530/
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080126/ap_on_en_mo/people_stallone_hgh
By the way, HGH is not simply an amino acid, it is composed of 191 amino acids. All proteins are composed of amino acids and if all you were looking for was amino acids, you can get all 20 from [...]

The Giro steps up and lays out the “don’t bother showing up” card. Good on ya, send ‘em packing.
Managers of the four ProTour teams excluded from the Giro d’Italia are still in disbelief. Citing a selection process based on “ethics and quality,” Giro organizer RCS told Astana, Bouygues Telecom, Crédit Agricole and High Road [...]

These guys are off the chain crazy. But this should at least answer the question as to what happens with a B sample once the A sample clears.
I would think it would be destroyed.
Rock Racing rider Kayle Leogrande is the anonymous rider filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, [...]

I see this as a good thing. The labs, their work and results, must be above all scrutiny. There can be no question as their professionalism and ethics.
There is far too much at stake for it to be otherwise.
From: The Pis
Subject: USADA overturned?
Hey big jonny- Just passing along [...]

This is one of those “tell us what you really feel moments”:
From: James
Subject: shudafucup already….
somebody please make this guy go away….you ain’t James Bond biyatch…you are 00 +. you cheated…you got caught. Spent a lot of money, still got caught.
Now go away and market some new acid wash def leppard jeans with that [...]

This is from Sports Illustrated, Jan. 15, 2008. Full story here: sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/01/15/sins.of.a.father012…
Sins of a Father
Corey Gahan was a champion in-line skater at 13. Then his dad put him on a regimen of steroids and HgH
Corey suspected that he was “doing something wrong,” but he trusted his dad and his trainer.
The kid hated needles. But [...]

As far as I know this is the first real evidence that EPO, the scourge of cycling, is also used in the National Football League.
Notice I didn’t write “was”. I wrote “is”.
Dana Stubblefield, a former defensive lineman in the N.F.L., pleaded guilty in federal court here Friday to charges that he made false [...]

This one fucking kills me.
Tyler Hamilton’s USPS 98-99 Season Helmet
Up for auction is Tyler’s Team Issue Giro Boreas Helmet. At one time this was a prized piece in my cycling memorabilia collection. I was proud and happy to display it in the shop and then later in my office. I made a [...]

The German public television station ARD had implicated all three of ‘em in a blood doping scheme through the Humanplasma lab, and Austrian-based laboratory which has facilities in Vienna.
Officials from that office refused to comment when contacted by VeloNews late Tuesday and said a lawyer would be addressing questions Wednesday. However, German biathlon officials were [...]

Attention lying dopers:
The former track star Marion Jones’s tearful courtroom plea to avoid jail was denied Friday by a federal judge who said her sentence should serve as a deterrent for others who may lie to federal agents, and Jones was sentenced to six months in prison for pleading guilty to two counts of [...]

I didn’t have a chance to write about this last night as I went with company, beer and pizza instead. Pretty much in that order.
Yesterday, justice was served.
Olympian athlete Marion Jones was sentenced today to six months in prison for lying about using steroids and for lying about her knowledge of a [...]

A week after the Worlds, he celebrated with friends at a Stuttgart discotheque and after taking a taxi home to find his girlfriend absent, he climbed into his car to find her. He crashed into a garden fence, and left the scene of the accident “under shock,” but returned to the scene within minutes. A [...]

More over at velonews.com about Rock Racing and their effervescent (and I mean it in the vivacious, gay, lively, sparkling sense of the word) check signer Michael Ball:
Less than two weeks after Ball signed a scandal-tinged Tyler Hamilton, Landis’s email address was included on an internal team message relaying details of an upcoming January 18-31 [...]

Deplorable Conditions.
So many cycling fans around the world are getting up to ride their bikes today and to check out the latest in the news about cycling trying to find something good to improve their mood and to take their minds off the stresses in their work and what do they read? More about [...]

The truth wants to come out. It never changes.
In this particular matter, we have an investigation into the doping practices of the former German powerhouse squad Telekom team. Aka T-Mobile. Aka T-bag.
[Werner] Franke said he remains convinced that former T-Mobile rider Patrik Sinkewitz was not the only rider on [...]