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Where are they now: A Tyler Hamilton Interview

Tyler Hamilton was a loyal lieutenant within cycling’s most notorious team, and Olympic champion who gave his medal back, and the author of a tell-all doping book. What's he doing now?

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Retired sprint great Petacchi banned from cycling for two years

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Retired Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi, winner of six Tour de France and 22 Giro d’Italia stages, has been suspended for two years for blood doping, the sport’s governing body the UCI said on Saturday (Aug 24). The UCI has sanctioned the sprinter “for a period of two years of ineligibility for anti-doping rule violations committed …

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Doping: the scourge of Colombia’s cycling talent production line

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Bogota, Aug 23, 2019 (AFP) – Colombian cycling reached its zenith last month when pint-sized climber Egan Bernal became his country’s first winner of the sport’s greatest race, the Tour de France. Colombia is riding the crest of a wave of euphoria with the likes of former Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana winner Nairo …

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doping, News, Operacion Puerto - July 12, 2019

WADA almost done analyzing Puerto samples but athletes will not be named

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WADA’s Intelligence and Investigations department is nearly finished a process of analyzing DNA and blood to identify numerous athletes involved in the Operación Puerto scandal, but the implicated individuals will not be named publicly, insidethegames reports. A 2006 raid on the Madrid-based clinic run by doctor Eufemiano Fuentes obtained some 200 blood bags, believed to …

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Two Austrian cyclists banned for doping in Operation Aderlass

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Two Austrian cyclists were banned for four years on Thursday for being part of an international blood-doping ring involving multiple sports. The Austrian Anti-Doping Legal Committee banned Stefan Denifl and Georg Preidler, who both raced in Grand Tours and made up Austria’s road-race team at the 2016 Olympics. The two were provisionally suspended by the …

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Where are they now: A Tyler Hamilton Interview

Retired sprint great Petacchi banned from cycling for two years

Doping: the scourge of Colombia’s cycling talent production line

WADA almost done analyzing Puerto samples but athletes will not be named

Two Austrian cyclists banned for doping in Operation Aderlass

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