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• 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 [...]

• Masters Cyclist Neal Schubel Suspended by USADA for Possession and Use of EPO

  24 November 10 • 0 comment

  Neal Schubel of Michigan, a 45-year-old Masters racer, has been suspended for two years from an EPO-related offense dating back to 2006. Earlier this year, Schubel raced the 2010 Barry-Roubaix race in the Elite Men’s field, finishing 47th. Official announcement from USADA below. Colorado Springs, Colo. (November 24, 2010) – USADA announced today that U.S. [...]

• 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 [...]

• Kacper Szczepaniak Attempts Suicide

  15 March 10 • 7 comments

  Kacper Szczepaniak, the young Polish rider who placed second in the U23 World Championships in Tabor and subsequently tested positive for EPO, tried to kill himself. His brother Pawel, who won the event and also tested positive for EPO, confirmed the news and reported to Belgian publication Het Laatste Nieuws that it was their father [...]

• Reactions to Szczepaniak Brothers’ Positive Doping Tests

  13 March 10 • 1 comment

  by Josh Liberles Cyclocross continues to be at the center of lots of hub-bub in cycling news outlets, and is the focus of a good deal of online chatter. Unfortunately the story that’s creating all the stir continues to be the positive EPO test readings for Polish brothers Pawel and Kacper Szczepaniak, the top two [...]

• Szczepaniak Brothers Positive for EPO at World Championships – Updated

  11 March 10 • 7 comments

  The Polish brothers Kacper and Pawel Szczepaniak were found to be positive for EPO at the UCI World Cyclocross Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic on January 31. Pawel, 20, came away with the Espoir World Championship title, winning with a 20 second gap over the younger Kacper, 19, in second place. Pending a review and [...]