Friday’s Bell Lap

The Level Playing Field Ideal Erodes A Little More and Doping Expert Doubts The Tour Was Clean Yesterday, the names of more players from Major League Baseball’s 2003 drug testing, the first year MLB tested, came to light.  Although only a handful of names have been revealed, reportedly roughly 100 players tested positive; very crudely [...]

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Doping In Sports

Last week, Danilo Di Luca, runner up in this year’s Giro d’Italia and the most aggressive rider in that race, came up positive for CERA, a blood-boosting derivative of the much ballyhooed EPO, at a doping control from the Giro.  Even as anti-doping measures and penalties have ramped up, Di Luca joins a long list [...]

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Friday’s Bell Lap

The family is off for a long weekend without access to a bike or computer (wife’s demands and rightfully so), so Friday’s Bell Lap is coming a little early. Positive Test for Di Luca By now, you’ve heard Danilo Di Luca, who gave this year’s Giro its pizzazz, tested positive for the EPO derivative CERA at [...]

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Racing At The Back

The idea for A View From The Back came a few years ago, when I got a bad case of the yips.  I developed a deep fear of riding in a group, and the only way I could race was either at the front or in the back.  Nothing specific happened that caused the yips [...]

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Lost Weekend

There was a lot of racing from the Pros to the locals this weekend.  Depending on your allegiances it was either a great weekend or a weekend of dashed hopes and dreams.  This being A View From The Back, you might guess where my weekend ended up. Let’s start with the Tour where any romantic [...]

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