I had put this in as an edit to Bush43’s post, but thought better of it. He can speak with his own voice.
Yellow jersey Michael Rasmussen will reportedly not be at the start of the Tour de France’s 17th stage Thursday morning according to L’Equipe. He was withdrawn from the race by his Rabobank [...]

Holy shit.
Cofidis confirmed Wednesday that its entire team will leave the Tour de France after rider Cristian Moreni tested positive for testosterone after last week’s 11th stage.
…Cofidis officials, announced they will forgo their right to ask for analysis of a ‘B’ sample, also accepted the Tour’s “invitation” to withdraw from the race, becoming the second [...]

Here at K Billy, the super sounds of the seventies, the hits just keep coming.
Cristian Moreni of Cofidis has been confirmed as rider who tested positive for testosterone following the Tour de France’s 11th stage on July 19. Coming just one day after news that Astana’s Alexandre Vinoukourov tested positive for a blood transfusion, news [...]

Yep. It’s a mistake. I miss my dog. They’re out to get me. Fucking French labs… It never changes.
“It’s a mistake. I never doped, that’s not the way I see my profession,” Vinokourov told the French sports daily L’Equipe for Wednesday’s edition. “I think it’s a mistake in part due to my [...]

This one in from Big Tex.
From: Big Tex
Subject: Fan site
www.vinokourovnet.tk
Check the guestbook at the bottom of the page
Yo, they are brutal over there…
Can’t say he doesn’t deserve every bit of it.

Ladies and Gentleman; I present to you…
ibelievevino.com

More on Vino:
The Tour de France was rocked by news that Astana’s battered team leader, Alexandre Vinokourov, tested positive for a homologous blood transfusion after Saturday’s time trial in Albi. L’Equipe reported on Tuesday afternoon that the Kazakh’s blood had shown evidence of a transfusion from another person with a compatible blood type in an [...]

It’s coming into focus now.
With doping its always 2-3 or 5 years down the line that it all makes sense. Of course, by that time, the products have been tipped into the urinal, or in one special case, down the sink.
We learn from this article, some little facts about HemoPure.
I remember some bee lining to [...]

Today’s question: How many checks did Jan Ullrich write to Eufemiano Fuentes and for how much?
Show me the money!
Switzerland’s supreme court on Monday gave authorities the green light to hand over details of Jan Ullrich’s Swiss bank accounts to German magistrates examining doping-related offenses.
Source: velonews.com
This is going to get very interesting.

It seems that the UCI has asked the team, to withdraw Rasmussen from its Tour team
(source: AFP – article: “La direction du Tour embarrassée par l’affaire Rasmussen) & HLN
Source: cycling4all.com
That’s what they’re claiming. Whether there is much to it, I can’t really say.
They mention the following article as support of the “Rasmussen [...]

After uncorking the time trial of his life on Saturday to retain the yellow jersey going into the first of three tough stages in the Pyrenees, Rabobank’s Michael Rasmussen was once again asked about allegations that in 2002 he had attempted to trick a friend into delivering him a package of hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier made [...]

I guess the men in black story had something to it after all. Leading the Tour means nothing to the Danish National Team. You toe the line, or you stay home.
Tour de France leader Michael Rasmussen has been axed from the Danish national team and told he will not take part [...]

Hey all. Here is what I can figure out.
The guys at ARD and ZDF decided to pull coverage because it is still ‘a farce’. By that I mean as I mentioned in my reply to the original post, I said we all pay TV tax, to get better coverage, less commercials, uncensored boobs (ok, that’s [...]

This is an old one, but it’s making the rounds again. Must be Tour time or something. Back in January of 2006 I posted a transcript of an instant message between Frankie Andreu (FDREU) and Jonathan Vaughters (Cyclevaughters) the morning of July 26, 2005.
Cyclevaughters: yeah, it’s very complex how the avoid all the [...]

Today I rode my single speed for three hours. I still weight 210 pounds. I ate all the turkey yesterday. I am not happy.
And so it goes.
Jan Ullrich’s attorneys are trying to prevent Swiss investigators from turning over documents from the Bank Credit Suisse to German investigators, the German news magazine FOCUS [...]

Zabel puts it out there: Amnesty.
Erik Zabel has called for an amnesty for those who confess to having doped. “I see an amnesty as the chance for cycling,” he told the German magazine, Welt am Sonntag. “The International Olympic Committee, the UCI and the national federations could set a deadline, giving everyone until [...]

Matthias Kessler fired by after positive B-sample.
Team Astana has fired Matthias Kessler following the positive results of his B-sample, the team announced Friday. Swiss Cycling, the national federation responsible for Kessler, had earlier in the day officially announced the results of the B-sample.
“The B-sample confirms the A-sample,” said Lorenz Schlaefli, the director of Swiss [...]

I can’t wait for this to drop.
Former T-Mobile leader Jan Ullrich, who was implicated in the Spanish Operacion Peurto affair, will soon be holding a conference where he will talk in detail about “the events of the last few years”, according to Sports Wereld.
“I will talk, and I will give my detailed opinion regarding the [...]

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 [...]