Tag: Doping

  • Danilo Di Luca – unfit for employment

    When it comes to riders who have been caught doping, there are those from a previous generation where such things were considered the norm; there are those who made a mistake and learnt from it; and then there are repeat offenders who simply don’t seem to give a toss. We could perhaps label that last…

  • What DIDN’T Lance Armstrong do

    Lance Armstrong is not a bad guy. He really isn’t. How do we know this? Because he never called Betsy Andreu fat. “I did call her crazy and I did call her a bitch, but I didn’t call her fat.” Betsy Andreu is really thin, so the only reason anyone would call her fat would…

  • Bradley Wiggins’ opinion of Lance Armstrong

    A lot of people are bemoaning the fact that current cyclists haven’t been too outspoken about Lance Armstrong. According to Popbitch, Bradley Wiggins was asked about the matter at Dubai Rugby Sevens Weekend and answered: “If anyone is wearing one of those yellow cock-rings, I am coming and tearing it off.” Apparently, he’d had a…

  • Lance, lies and litigation

    Can I stop writing about this now? Can I please stop writing about it? Although the media attention is heightening, we’re getting diminishing returns from the Lance Armstrong doping story now. He appeared on Oprah and said some stuff, but the whole of it can be neatly packaged away in one box thanks to one,…

  • Lance, Oprah and stage-managed redemption

    Following Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, reports say he is going to dob some people in. William Fotheringham is probably right when he says that these stories are probably just Armstrong’s latest attempt to muddy what is actually a pretty clear picture of one man at the centre of organised, methodical doping on a…

  • Lance Armstrong: EPO, blood transfusions, subcultures and the line

    I suppose a website with ‘Tour de France’ in its title should at least acknowledge the fact that the guy who won the race a record number of times is being ripped a new one as a result of an insanely lengthy report on doping practices being released into the public domain. For my part,…