I suppose in some way, in fact a very little way, he should be praised for admitting it and not dragging it through the courts, but then you think of the other boys in the team who were removed from the Tour because of his actions and you feel no praise for him.  Yes today Riccardo Riccò confessed to taking EPO to the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). MORE »

Above is Riccardo Ricco pointing to himself, the cheating scumbag, who is another rider giving a clear disregard to his sport, his team-mates, and the fans who come to watch it. Yes, Ricco, a greedy, self-centred man, in it for the money, has won two-stages in this years tour and although he becomes the third rider to be disqualified for drug cheating, he is the most high profiled. Remember stage 9 how he burst away from everyone on the final climb? Remember Phil Liggett on ITV4 telling us that he rode like Marco Pantani? Remember how pre-race we had been told that he had a ’shady past’ that he defended as being natural? Yes. Remember all that suspicion . . . It was correct.

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This is Manuel Beltran, the face of the first man to be kicked out of the Tour for testing positive for drugs. EPO being the drug in particular but to be honest, who cares what it was, he is positive, he is out and he is a cheat who for some reason continues to feel it is worth the risk of dragging the sport through the dirt if he is caught and in the new age of dope testing, you will get caught. MORE »

According to an article I have just read on the CBC website, 20 riders in this years Tour de France have been warned about their slightly abnormal hematocrit levels. MORE »

It is the end of the line for Floyd Landis almost two years since his tainted Tour de France win. Floyd’s latest court case was at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland, but the case was thrown out and now Landis has nowhere else to turn.

Landis was looking to get his 2006 Tour title back after being stripped of it after testing positive for testosterone following his Stage 17 win. The biggest disaster for Landis now is that he must repay $100,000 towards the legal fees of the USADA as well as his own legal fees. The total could top $2 million. Landis wont be eligible to race again until January 2009, if he does in fact chose to race again. MORE »