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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The Omega Pharma-Quick Step team has fired Levi Leipheimer after learning of his confession to doping as part of the Lance Armstrong investigation. Acting as Armstrong’s teammate for five years at the United States Postal Service, Astana and RadioShack teams, the 38-year-old Leipheimer joined Quick Step in 2012. Team management expressed surprise last week...
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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 5, 2012 News surfaced today that Levi Leipheimer who is riding in the Tour this year, is allegedly one of the 10 persons to be testifyng against Lance Armstrong in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s actions against the previous seven-time  Tour winner. “I really don’t have anything to say. All I...
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By Jen Benepe, June 14, 2012 Seven-time Tour de France winner and cycling champion Lance Armstrong is being investigated for doping, once again. The allegations were sent to Mr. Armstrong on June 13 by the U.S. agency in charge of regulating doping in sports, this time including the champion and five other people, three...
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