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Ivan Basso testified today at Operation Puerto. He said since he was a child he wanted to be the best cyclist in the world. He said he took the initiative in 2001 and contacted Dr. Fuentes because he though the method used by Fuentes of freezing the blood would improve […]
German cyclist Jorg Jaske has testified at the Operation Puerto trial. He says he wasn’t the only member of the Liberty Seguros team who was a client of Dr. Fuentes. He said he couldn’t say for sure besides himself who was a client of Fuentes but he knows there were […]
Saturday’s stage 4 in the Tour Méditerranéen brought the leader’s jersey to RADIOSHACK LEOPARD TREK’s Maxime Monfort. Monfort, 30, had moved into second place after the stage 2 individual time trial, sitting 22-seconds behind leader Lars Boom in the classification. A breakaway victory on Mt. Faron went to Jean-Christophe Peraud […]
We wondering when his name would come out as well. Anyone who thinks just Lance has no idea and the Lance bashing is getting really old. Gazzetta dello Sport revealed today that Mario Cipollini was also a client of Eufemiano Fuentes. They say he had an elaborate personalized doping program […]
“We have been in communication with Mr. Armstrong and his representatives and we understand that he does want to be part of the solution and assist in the effort to clean up the sport of cycling. We have agreed to his request for an additional two weeks to work on […]
Christian Prudhomme, director of the Tour de France commented on Operation Puerto. He regrets that the other sports besides cycling are not being diclosed in the Operation Puerto trial in Madrid. “Everyone has understood that there were not only cyclists. From the outset the names of cyclists were […]
Federation Francaise de Cyclisme (FFC) President David Lappartient held a press conference on the topic of the Operation Puerto trial. He was quoted as saying “The process Puerto is a veritable farce.” There is a vast blood doping network organized by Fuentes. There’s the appearance of protection going on. “One […]
Andre Birote, a US attorney led a federal investigation into Armstrong’s situation, was reported to have said Lance shouldn’t be worried right now. He said Armstrong isn’t completely excluded from prosecution, but his recent revelations with Oprah doesn’t really change anything for the moment. They’ve already made a decision a […]
From 1930 to the late 1960s the Tour de France was raced by national teams. David Lappartient, president of the FFC, is proposing to the Tour de France organizers to go back to national teams. His hope that it would help in the fight against doping. He thinks that […]
Aspen would like to encourage cycling and are considering whether to allow cyclists to yield instead of stop at a stop sign. Idaho has a “stop and yield” policy that is said to work well. Boise claims that safety has improved as a result.
