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• 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 [...]

• 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), [...]

• Grass, Dirt, Barriers, Doping…and Horses?

  21 August 08 • 0 comment

  Cyclocross is a brutal sport for sure, with its varied off-road surfaces, epic conditions, and the need to jump over barriers at speed in front of crowds. Unfortunately, a few bad apples turn to “juice” to seek an edge in ‘cross and deal with the pain. Well, such riders aren’t alone. It appears that when [...]