This Day in Doping: Contador defense unraveling
A second allegation — that he may have used an IV to dope in the Tour de France — has surfaced against 3-time winner Alberto Contador. The New York Times and Associated Press reported that traces of a...
View ArticleThis Day in Doping: Contador STFU
After one final yap about the wrongness of doping reports, Alberto Contador has decided no further comment — the stance he should have adopted out of the gate.
View ArticleThis Day in Doping: The pain in Spain
Alberto Contador, having decided earlier this week to STFU on doping allegations, now is threatening legal action against news outlets. Guy really knows how to win friends, eh? Contador of course is...
View ArticleThis Day in Doping: Hope for Contador?
Spanish police cracking down on a drug ring have given Contador fans — as well as the dour Spaniard himself — hope that yes, indeed, somehow Contador did in fact get that clenbuterol unintentionally by...
View ArticleThis Day in Doping: Spanish Beef Industry Indignant at Contador’s Claims
Suspended Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador’s contention that he ate beef contaminated with clenbuterol that later showed up in his drug test has generated some pushback from Spain’s beef industry. More...
View ArticleThis Day in Doping: Patience and progress
Jonathan Vaughters, a former racing pro and now manager of Team Garmin, is a respected name in cycling circles who has been outspoken on the anti-doping front (to the point of a run-in with Lance...
View ArticleThis Day in Doping: Where’s the beef?
It’s poetic justice that the International Cycling Union (UCI) has turned the Alberto Contador doping case over to Spanish authorities. Now you have a situation where a leading Spanish cyclist accuses...
View ArticleThis Day in Doping: Sour Spaniard in a (beef) stew
A whiny Spanish cyclist has been banned for doping, but his name is not Alberto Contador. Contador says the doping agent clenbuterol turned up in his urine sample because he ate contaminated Spanish...
View ArticleThis Day in Doping: Lance Armstrong’s ill-advised probe-baiting
We continue to shake our heads at Lance Armstrong’s puzzling handling of the federal investigation into whether he doped. By saying things like he loses no sleep at night and is confident the...
View ArticleLance Armstrong: Confession and … Apology??
With The King finally admitting what we knew all along … With Lance Armstrong finally confessing the way we advised him all along … The question now is: Besides confessing, will Lance apologize? For us...
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