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Tag archive for ‘Kacper Szczepaniak’

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings – March 24, 2010

  24 March 10 • 0 comment

  It was an uncharacteristically busy week in the world of cyclocross considering the time of year, so sit back and soak up a lot of interesting off-season movement. The Sczcepaniaks are back in the news, for less dastardly reasons. Lots of contract talk was flying about despite the calendars saying March, and a French Woman [...]

• 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 [...]