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• Three Members of USPS Pro-Cycling Team Doping Conspiracy Receive Lifetime Bans

  10 July 12 • 0 comment

  COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO– We’ve been lucky in cyclocross to have a sport that has been thus far mostly untainted by doping. However, the rest of the cycling world hasn’t been as lucky, and USADA announced today in a press release that Dr. Luis Garcia del Moral (cycling team doctor), Dr. Michele Ferrari (cycling team consulting [...]

• Reports of Tom Vannoppen’s Doping Suspension

  4 August 11 • 0 comment

  

  While cycling may get its good name dragged through the dirt on a regular basis, thanks to a near-constant barrage of doping allegations, typically, cyclocrossers tend to stay off of the “accused” list. However, yesterday a Belgian newspaper reported that Tom Vannoppen has been suspended for two years after testing positive for cocaine. Cocaine, in addition to obviously being a banned substance, is considered a “stimulant” under UCI guidelines, so testing positive for the drug is to test positive for doping.

• USADA Sanctions Cyclist Lisban Quintero For Doping Violation

  1 July 11 • 0 comment

  

  USADA Lisban Quintero announced today that Columbian athlete Lisban Quintero of New York has been sanctioned for “anabolic agents.” Quintero raced on the road but also competed in cyclocross, including racing for 47th behind Ryan Trebon at the 2009 Mercer Cup USGP race and 20th behind Valentin Scherz at the 2010 HPCX race. Quintero was quoted at Velonews as saying ” I really enjoy training. My father taught me that when it comes to training, quality is more important than quantity.”

  Colorado Springs, Colo. (July 1, 2011) USADA announced today that Lisban Quintero of New York, New York, an athlete in the sport of Cycling, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a suspension for his doping offense.

• USADA Announces Three Doping Suspensions for Bay Area and North Carolina Cyclists

  9 April 11 • 3 comments

  It appears that last week was a bad week for bike racing dopers, as USADA announced suspensions for three US cyclists, including North Carolina cyclist, coach and former masters road and time trial National Champion Peter Cannell,  Alberto Blanco (GS Mengoni alum and B ‘cross racer?) and  Andrew Tilin, an Oakland Cat 4 cyclist and [...]

• Masters Dopers? – A Column by Lee Waldman

  3 December 10 • 8 comments

  How prevalent is doping in the Masters’ ranks? Recent events have have gotten CXM columnist Lee Waldman a-wonderin’. Missed Lee’s last column, where he looks at how to beef up cornering skills? Catch up here. by Lee Waldman Now things have truly gotten crazy! Come on, Masters racers busted for EPO? What’s gotten into us? [...]

• Chuck Coyle Busted for EPO – UPDATED

  24 November 10 • 5 comments

  Just days after USADA suspended Masters cyclist Neal Schubel for using EPO, today the anti-doping agency announced the suspension of 38 year-old Chuck Coyle. Coyle is a long-time racer based out of Boulder, CO, and up until today he raced for and was a part owner of the prominent Hüdz-Vista Subaru cyclocross team. Upon learning [...]

• USADA Releases First Quarter 2010 Doping Statistics

  28 June 10 • 0 comment

  

  The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the national organization charged with keeping the country’s sports clean of performance-enhancing drugs, recently released its report on testing and doping violations for the first quarter of 2010. The 1,868 doping control tests, across all sports, turned up seven infractions – three nonanalytical positives (proof of doping not derived from testing), [...]

• Breaking News – Szczepaniaks Receive Doping Suspensions, U23 Podium Resolved

  21 May 10 • 3 comments

  

  by Josh Liberles While Floyd Landis’ leaked emails are creating quite the firestorm within the ProTour regarding athletes and officials involved with the US Postal Service, Discovery and Phonak teams, the UCI is just now resolving the biggest doping bust ever to hit cyclocross. Brothers Pawel and Kacper Szczepaniak tested positive for using the banned [...]

• UCI to Restore Szczepaniaks’ U23 Cyclocross Worlds Results

  1 April 10 • 9 comments

  This was published on April 1, 2010 and was an April Fools’ story. Following an emotional interview published in Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws (and discussed previously in Cyclocross Magazine) in which disgraced U23 World Championships winner Pawel Szczepaniak revealed what prompted him and his younger brother, second place finisher Kacper, to use EPO before the [...]

• Pawel Szczepaniak Admits to EPO, Discusses the Lead-Up and Ramifications

  29 March 10 • 4 comments

  by Christine Vardaros Pawel Szczepaniak admits to having taken EPO leading up to the U23 World Championships from a still unnamed drug source, but claims that at the time he thought he was taking vitamins. According to an interview with Het Laatste Nieuws, after his form dipped post-European Championships, where he placed second, he was [...]