Official Statement: In 2013 Team KATUSHA decided to become a member of the association Movement for a Credible Cycling (MPCC). At that time, the cycling world needed to send a strong message in favour of a clean sport after a succession of doping scandals. All the members of the MPCC […]
Tag: doping
Greg LeMond Comments on Mechanical Doping and How to Stop It
An interview with Greg LeMond by Shane Stokes appeared in Cycling Tips this week. Here are some of the key points: Apparently Greg has been speaking out about mechanical doping for some time but was not being heard. He had to build his own bike frame with a motor in […]
Are Electromagnetic Wheels Mechanical Doping?
The Italian sports newspapers has reported on Electromagnetic wheels as “poor man’s doping” following the reports of the motorized doping scandal at the CycloCross Worlds this past weekend. They say it’s the new frontier of doping. Theses wheels are said to be able to produced 20-60 watts with electromagnetics. They […]
Eddy Merckx Calls for Lifetime Bans for Motorized Doping
He described motorized doping as a worse offense than performance enchancing drugs. It’s more brazen and even more serious than chemical doping. He wants the offenders to be suspended for life. He said that from what he learned about the incident with Van den Driessche, this wasn’t the first […]
Mechanical Doping at CycloCross Worlds
Femke Van den Driessche, a 19 year old Belgian teenager who raced the CycloCross Worlds on Sunday was found to have an electric motor in her bike. She claims innocence and that her bike was inadvertently switched with that of a friend. The UCI is looking into what is now […]
Cycling Not Number 1 for Doping
The Movement for a Credible Cycling (MPCC) unveiled a study on its website, revealing that cycling was exceeded in 2015 and number of doping cases (listed and publicly disclosed), for athletics, weightlifting and baseball. The MPCC has recorded all the positive cases from January 1 to December 31, 2015 regarding […]
Inga Thompson Speaks out about Doping
The Outer Line interview “This article is the second in a series of in-depth personal narratives about the impact of doping on the lives of people of the sport of pro cycling. It presents alternative views of how the doping culture has proliferated in the sport and new revelations of […]
Gaggioli Claims Armstrong and Others Paid to Win 1993 Triple Crown
Just Keeps Getting Worse for Armstrong He’s been on a sort of “goodwill” tour, making amends to numerous people he hurt during his heyday. Now, retired Italian cyclist Roberto Gaggioli, is claiming his Coors Light Team had made an agreement with the Motorola team to let Armstrong win the Triple […]
Possible New Doping Detection
An article on Cycling News has interviewed a Spanish doctor who is a famous cancer specialist. He says that the way some cancers are detected could be used to also detect doping. Some doping products disappear quickly, in a few hours, but they leave a genetic footprint which could still […]
Michael Rasmussen Tell All Book
Former Danish cyclist and almost Tour de France winner Michael Rasmussen has written a new book, “Yellow Fever” due to be out next week. In his book he claims that the entire Rabobank team was doping as well as at CSC. He also claims to have shown Ryder Hesjedal […]
