No, seriously… I lived there. I know firsthand how crazy they can get. It look as though it runs in the family.

Lance’s Daughter Shows, Tells Olsen

CLASS CLOWNS Ash, Lance
Most little girls take Barbie dolls to show-and-tell. But not Lance Armstrong’s daughter. Radar has learned that one of the part-eunuch biker’s young daughters (he has twins) [...]

This might be an indicator of how bad he needs the dope.
Ashley Olsen and Lance Armstrong were spotted at the Rose Bar in New York Monday night. The two seemed to be really enjoying each other’s company, according to Page Six:
Our bar spy said, “They came together with a group of friends. Ashley drank red [...]

Oh jeez…
Calling for “an overhaul” of national and international anti-doping enforcement systems, Floyd Landis announced Wednesday that he has filed an appeal of the ruling that resulted in the stripping of his Tour de France title.
Landis filed an appeal with the International Court of Arbitration for Sport ahead of Thursday’s deadline for challenging the decision [...]

Latest Drug Crackdown Could Expose Some Athletes
A complete list of buyers who received steroids, human growth hormone or other performance-enhancing drugs from a drug-trafficking network uncovered by federal investigators this week could take months to compile, federal agents involved in the crackdown said yesterday.
At this point, it is too early to rule out the involvement [...]

This just in from Mad Dog Media.
Photo Credit: Mad Dog Media
At least he’s down with Satan.

Does this count as a blemish against the event?
Paolo Bettini of Italy prevailed in Stuttgart, Germany, after a week of polemics that threatened his participation. The 33 year-old from Marina di Bibbona formed part of a five-man group with Frank Schleck (Luxembourg), Cadel Evans (Australia), Alexandr Kolobnev (Russia) and home rider Stefan Schumacher. It stayed [...]

Michael Rasmussen seems to always of been on the cutting edge of the doping curve, that’s what I think.
Way back when he was using modified bovine blood, before it was cool.
Now he is onto the bio-similars.
He’s a trend-setter, and we should all be proud.

This one just came down the pipe:
Federal drug officials say they’ve arrested 124 people and busted 56 labs in the largest illegal steroid investigation in U.S. history.
The Drug Enforcement Administration says it busted 56 steroid labs in 27 states.
The 18-month investigation, dubbed “Operation Raw Deal,” targeted traffickers who allegedly imported raw materials from China [...]

I can’t say that I’m surprised. Disappointed, maybe. But not surprised.
From: Patrick
Subject: Jeanson
velonews.com
Jeanson admits to doping. I’m gonna find her fucking house in Phoenix and put a big “doper” banner in her fucking front yard.
The velonews article screwed up the chronology. She’d been long suspected by all of doping. She [...]

You broke my heart, Floyd. You broke my heart.

Now what I have instead of a matching set of you, Armstrong, Lemond and Hampsten (the four American Grand Tour winners) all framed and hanging on my my walls, I have the Big Three and an autographed posted of the first guy to ever be stripped [...]

From: Snake
To: Everyone who raced Leadville Trail 100 Mountain bike this year
To everyone who raced the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race this year. You can now move yourself up a spot in how you finished. (All except Dave W. You’re fine where you’re at.)
I bit my tongue [...]

Guilty.
With some admissions that the lab was a POS.
CN Newsflash
Can we change that part about Joe Papp from “low-level” to no level? Fucking scumbag scammer.

Oh for fucks sake:
Spaniard Margarita Fullana and Austrian Michael Weiss have been declared “unfit to compete” in the 2007 UCI World mountain-bike championships in Fort William, Scotland, after failing pre-race medical blood screenings.
Both cross-country racers are slated to leave the event after their national teams learned of the results.
Source: velonews.com
They say blood is [...]

It don’t stop and it don’t quit…
German cycling team T-Mobile has been rocked by a new doping scandal after Italian rider Lorenzo Bernucci was sacked on Tuesday for failing a drugs test.
Bernucci, 27, tested positive for the banned appetite suppressant Sibutramine on August 15 during the Tour of Germany.
Source: velonews.com

I saw this one over at Velonews.com:
memo drafted by the head of the arbitration panel reviewing the Floyd Landis doping case suggests that a decision in the matter won’t be forthcoming until mid- to late-September.
The memo, obtained on Thursday by ESPN.com’s Bonnie D. Ford, notes that the chairman intends to formally close the hearing process [...]

Leave it to the Onion…
Non-Doping Cyclists Finish Tour De France
August 30, 2007 | Onion Sports
PARIS—A small but enthusiastic crowd of several dozen was on hand at the Tour de France’s finish line on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées Tuesday to applaud the efforts of the 28 cyclists who completed the grueling 20-stage, 2,208.3-mile race without the [...]

Get a load of this:
“In cycling nobody respects human rights,” said Vinokourov in an exclusive interview with Reuters. “The situation is now worse than any other sport. I hope the truth will be found and I am going to fight for it.”
…Vino denounced cycling’s current anti-doping procedures, calling them “a clear violation of human rights.” [...]

Read it here: nytimes.com
We all know the story. At least the high points.
Or low points. Kinda depends on your point of view.
…Landis came from behind to win one of the hardest stages of the 2,272-mile race. He brazenly dumped the rest of the peloton and then rode ferociously for hours, [...]

Floyd on the record, at Leadville, about the his future and the Tour’s future.
Floyd, man, the system doesn’t work? Or doesn’t it work because you got busted?
And i’ve always wondered about the Dale Earnhardt look you brought to cycling with those glasses and the low hats…your comments that all the organizations need to talk [...]

The Chicken gets tender:
“It’s not like I have been seeing psychologist or so, but of course I have some good friends and family who have supported me tremendously. And that is nice,” he continued. “Obviously, it helps knowing that 50,000 have made the effort [of visiting my] website and signing to support me. That tells [...]