By Jen Benepe (aka Dzidzia GoodSword) In an article yesterday, Kevin Heliker of the Wall Street Journal outed Lance Armstrong’s not so private previous alias, Juan Pelota as a Strava user. For those of you who do not know, Strava is an online tool for tracking your speed and distance, and by using the...
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In a recent interview Lance Armstrong the previous Tour de France champion said he would never have told authorities about the drug use of fellow cyclists. In response to a question from the reporter about whether he was protecting Dr. Michele Ferrari in his interview with Oprah last week, Armstrong said,  ”I wasn’t ‘protecting’ anyone....
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You might not see your favorite rider on this list, but that’s just because they didn’t get caught. Here are some other names: Fausto Coppi, Eddy Merckx,  Jacques Anquetil, Marco Pantani, Levi Leipheimer, Bjarne Riis, Alberto Contador. Got the drift? Yup, all took enough drugs to actually get caught with banned substances in their...
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The second day of Armstrong’s taped interview with Oprah on OWN was met with skepticism from–guess whom–mostly men. The reactions ranged from cynicism, to disgust. But does the punishment fit the crime? So far, we have had hearsay, and testimony, including now Armstrong’s own, about his use of banned substances. We have no idea...
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By Jen Benepe The Twitter field was buzzing last night while Oprah was interviewing Lance Armstrong, with the most innovative hashtag to be born, #doprah. Some tweets still attempted to use #lancearmstrong, and #cycling but they needed have bothered: #doprah was the clear winner. But watching the interview between Armstrong and Oprah I got...
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You would have to  be dead, deaf and blind, or possibly crazy to have missed the crescendo of chatter about the upcoming Lance Armstrong appearance on Oprah tonight. The show will air at 9 PM on OWN, and will also be streamed at Oprah.com. Part II will air tomorrow night on the same channel....
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Dr. Michele Ferrari, the alleged doctor who provided banned substances to professional cyclists told a reporter at online news Al Jazeera that he never provided drugs to Lance Armstrong, and never saw him or heard of  him doping. Michele (pronounced Mee-kay-ley) Ferrari has long been linked at least publicly with doping in cycling. But...
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October 22, 2012 The European governing body for cycling sports has agreed to strip Lance Armstrong of his Tour titles. The seven-time Tour de France winner is now banned for life from competing in any internationally sanctioned cycling competitions following the report by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that accused him of master-minding a doping...
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October 22, 2012 The Union Cycliste Internationale is set to announce its decision today on whether it supports the determination by the U.S. agency to ban the American cyclist from competition. International Cycling Union President Pat McQuaid will announce at a 7 a.m. EDT news conference whether the UCI will accept USADA’S decision to...
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By Jen Benepe CAREFULLY CRAFTED MESSAGES, CONFESSION “BLOC” TIMED TO USADA RELEASE Canadian rider and previous U.S. Postal Team member Michael Barry has become the latest cyclist to post a true doping confession on his home page. First came his previous team mate George Hincapie, who posted a full admission that he doped but...
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Online today on the United States Anti-Doping Agency site is the “Reasoned Decision” against Lance Armstrong. The document was put first put online by RaceRadio. From a brief scan, the entire 220-page document is composed mostly of hearsay testimony by a number of Armstrong’s previous team mates, friends, and employees. There are no real...
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Previous teammate and friend of Lance Armstrong announced today that he took banned substances during his cycling career. The announcement is not much of a shocker: we predicted it during and after the Tour de France folded this year, when Hincapie announced his retirement. The timing was too coincidental with the charges being made...
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Has sport triumphed over the bureaucratic muckraking by the U.S. Anti-Doping Administration? It would seem so. In a recent article in the Wall St. Journal, writers Kevin Helliker and Vanessa O’Connell examine how Armstrong’s request to join the Superfrog Triathlon, and the Half-Full Triathlon led the organizers to drop their USAT certification so the...
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The World Anti-Doping Agency, (WADA) and the Union Cycliste Internationale have still not ruled on Lance Armstrong since the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency made its proclamation last week about stripping the seven-time Tour de France winner of all his medals. Indeed there seems to be some kind of hold-up, and the exact reasons are not...
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August 24, 2012–By Jen Benepe Seven time Tour de France winner, and cancer survivor is giving up the fight. This time it’s not against 190 riders in a Tour de France, or 2,500 competitors in an Ironman competition, nor even the cancer that has ravaged his body. The fight Armstrong is giving up is against...
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A judge in Austin, Tex., had tough questions for United States antidoping officials in their pursuit of Lance Armstrong, grilling them at length in a hearing.
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By Jen Benepe, July 10, 2012 Three previous associates of Lance Armstrong have received lifetime bans from the US Anti-Doping Agency. The three men are previous doctors and handlers at the U.S. Postal and Astana Teams, Dr. Luis Garcia del Moral, consulting physician Dr. Michele Ferrari, and trainer Jose “Pepe” Martí, according to a...
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Today a dramatic end to a flat Tour de France stage with a follow up win by Andre Greipel was over shadowed by bigger news that affected the entire peloton. News broke that a Dutch newspaper De Telegraph had identified five of the riders that had traded reduced 6-month suspensions in return for ratting...
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