Doping in Cycling

LONDON (Reuters) - The manager of German cycling team BORA-Hansgrohe has raised concern about COVID-19 testing ahead of the Tour de France after pulling his team out of the Bretagne Classic on Tuesday because of a ‘false positive’.BORA-Hansgrohe withdrew all of its riders from the race after one team member…

Cycling The start of next year`s Tour de France has been brought forward by a week to avoid clashing with the men`s road race at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics, the International Cycling Union (UCI) has said. The start of next year`s Tour de France has been brought forward by a…

The Olympics, which were postponed a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, run from July 23 to August 8, with the road races scheduled for July 24, 25 and 28.To avoid a conflict the Tour has been scheduled from June 26 to July 18.Tour de FranceMartin refuses to vouch for…

The name-change is a sponsorship move to support Ineos's new 4x4 vehicle, called the Grenadier.Tour de FranceMartin refuses to vouch for drug-free peloton24/09/2020 AT 08:53Rumours had been circulating that the name change was set to take place, and on Wednesday Ineos confirmed the news saying:"Team Ineos has today confirmed they…

Ryan Gibbons (Photo by David S. Bustamante/Soccrates/Getty Images) South Africa's Ryan Gibbons has won stage 1 of the first-ever Virtual Tour de France.The 25-year-old rides for NTT Pro Cycling and their four-rider line-up also included Reinardt Janse van Rensburg, Edvald Boasson Hagen and Rasmus Tiller.Twenty-three of the world's best cycling…

Charles Dumas, a 19-year-old freshman at Compton College, raised the bar on the high jump record on this date in 1956 when he became the first person to clear 7 feet, jumping 7 feet, 5/8 inches at the U.S. Olympic trials at the Coliseum.The breakaway height in the competition was…

Updated / Wednesday, 24 Jun 2020 10:22 Kanstantsin Siutsou in action at the 2017 Giro Belarusian rider Kanstantsin Siutsou has been banned for four years after he failed an anti-doping test in 2018, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said in a statement. The 37-year-old, who was riding for the Bahrain-Merida…

REUTERS: Former Team Sky rider Kanstantsin Siutsou has been banned for four years after he failed an anti-doping test in 2018, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said in a statement https://www.uci.org/inside-uci/press-releases/decision-of-the-uci-anti-doping-tribunal-regarding-kanstantsin-siutsou.The 37-year-old, who was riding for the Bahrain-Merida team at the time, was provisionally suspended in September 2018 after a…

(Reuters) - Former Team Sky rider Kanstantsin Siutsou has been banned for four years after he failed an anti-doping test in 2018, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said in a statement here The 37-year-old, who was riding for the Bahrain-Merida team at the time, was provisionally suspended in September 2018…

As someone who has a bookshelf groaning with volumes dedicated to a certain now-non-Tour de France-winning Texan, it has always seemed odd to me that books dedicated to the greatest racing cyclist ever are fairly scarce in English, or pretty much any other language. There is an old joke that…