Posts Tagged "Lance Armstrong"

How fair is it to have a Team Time Trial in a cycling tour? How much control does the top rider of each team actually have in managing his team to be specialist in the TTT? Should TTT time gaps be real or nominal?

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From the contrite and seemingly stage-managed confession by Lance Armstrong to the current allegations swirling around the AFL and NRL, the issue of drugs in sport has not been too far from the headlines of late.

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Lance Armstrong’s former team manager believes cycling has entered a new era after months of controversy, much of it provoked by the disgraced former seven-time Tour de France winner.

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The UCI Congress will hold its elections in September, with controversial chief Pat McQuaid hoping for a third term in the top job. If you’re not sure which way the vote should go, then read on.

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As the European pro cycling season kicks into top gear, the question pops into my head yet again – can I still love this sport without the involvement of my hero Lance Armstrong?

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A former teammate of shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong, Norway’s Steffen Kjaergaard, will escape sanctions despite having admitted doping, the country’s anti-doping agency announced on Monday.

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“With great power comes great responsibility” – very sage advice given by Uncle Ben to Spiderman.

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Former professional cyclist Michael Boogerd, a spring classic specialist who once edged Lance Armstrong to win the Amstel Gold Race, admitted to using performance enhancing drugs for a decade during his career in interviews published on Wednesday.

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Lance Armstrong is now facing two more lawsuits in the wake of his admission that all seven of his Tour de France victories were fueled by banned drugs.

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The UCI. It really is a case of you can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them. This week has seen cycling’s governing body forced into an embarrassing back down after it attempted to throw Katusha out of the World Tour.

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The revelations over the last couple of days have raised many issues about drugs in sport. However, I think there also needs to be some balance, which has been lacking so far.

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If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me about Lance Armstrong I’d be living long and I’d be living strong.

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There is an old saying – it takes a village to raise an idiot. Lance Armstrong, the liar and cheat that he is, wasn’t always so.

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A US insurance firm on Thursday filed a lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong seeking restitution of $US12 million ($A11.68 million) in bonus money paid to the American for his Tour de France triumphs.

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Yesterday colleague Glenn Mitchell brilliantly covered the biggest bombshell in Australia sport this century. Drug-taking and match-fixing on a grand scale has surfaced after a 12-month investigation by the Australian Crime Commission.

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Yesterday’s gathering of sports bodies and government agencies for the biggest press conference since Whitlam got the boot was full of gut-wrenching exposés and stunned reactions from punters.

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Australian sport finds itself today in the biggest maelstrom in its history.

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Men’s professional road cycling has taken a terrible beating. The varnish has been stripped, the picture reduced to its true colours. Doping was rife.

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Yesterday it occurred to me that a fundamental principle of sport and of investing your time, passion and belief in following sport is one of trust.

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Armstrong could face criminal charges

By AAP, 7 Feb 2013

 

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong could be under US criminal investigation, despite a claim that is not the case.

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