Doping in Cycling

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…

Johan Bruyneel having a go at everyone, including Lemond – Top Story. The season will soon be back on and the top riders pick their races. The Italian calendar and race news from TDU, Canada, Germany and Slovenia. Lots of rider news and contracts. Team news from CCC, UAE and…

Lance Armstrong was at one point the biggest star on the planet. The American cycling superstar took the world by storm in the late 90s and early 2000s when he stormed to seven consecutive Tour de France victories. From the most exclusive parties, to hosting the biggest shows on televion.…

Image 8 of 14View photosMitchelton-Scott’s Annemiek Van Vleuten en route to winning the 2020 Omloop Het NieuwsbladImage 9 of 14View photosMarianne Vos celebrates her win at Trofeo Alfredo BindaImage 10 of 14View photosTour de France race director Christian Prudhomme at the presentation for the 2020 Tour de Yorkshire routeImage 11…

Why are we still listening to Lance Armstrong?Why do we keep handing him hearings?Why does this deceitful man, who did all of these vile things, keep getting opportunities at redemption?This time around, he got four hours of prime-time TV on ESPN’s signature 30 for 30 series, broken up into two…