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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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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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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Greg Lemond, the man who was the first American to win multiple Tour de France races says he is vying for the top post at the International Cycling Union. In an interview with French newspaper Le Monde about whether he was prepared to run for president of the Swiss based union against incumbent Pat McQuaid, the 51-year-old...
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Cadel Evans, 2011 Tour de France winner is alleged to have consulted Dr. Michele Ferrari, the now tainted doctor in the doping allegation scandals rocking the world cycling scene. The consultation is alleged to have taken place in 2000, and no discussion was entered about utilizing banned substances, according to the Aussie rider. The...
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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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In the News Michael Barry, the Canadian rider who was named in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s investigation of Lance Armstrong, published a confessional –and a plea of sorts to the public in the NY Times today. Amid the general “mea culpas” , using words like “wrong”, and “code of silence,” Barry also struck at...
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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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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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