Doping

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2014/12/ard-anti-doping-journalist-seppelt-if-asked-ill-speak-to-the-circ-about-uci-and-contador/

I should point out that I don't personally think Kelly Holmes is/was a cheat.

I don't think she was either, just find the criteria for Knighthood confusing!

With all the talk about Russia, it's worth noting that the old USSR topped the medal table in the last Olympics, if you add the medals of its constituent parts together.

I can probably get you a price list if you're interested

I just need an excuse to wear chainmail. Wait... no I don't.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/report-rabottini-confirmed-positive-for-epo

Race Radio (TheRaceRadio):
Question for @paulajradcliffe. Is your name on the IAAF's ‘Suspicion Red’ list? If yes why?

http://twitter.com/TheRaceRadio/status/544239048722624513

Michele breaking out the USPS kit is amaze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s07TTmFG3w

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/11285428/Revealed-how-Olympic-champions-three-Britons-and-39-countries-have-been-dragged-into-doping-scandal.html

Read an interesting reading of Gazzetta's treatment of Nibz/Astana as being a bit of payback for him announcing he's not doing the Giro.

Mauro Santambrogio tests positive for testosterone in an out of competition test during his ban for EPO usage;

http://uci.ch/pressreleases/uci-statement-mauro-santambrogio/

If ever the phrase, "The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant..." was more apt.

Him and Ricco are the watchword for doping moronity.

Is moronity a word? If not it should be.

RR is just fishing. Him and the clinic seem to have singled her out based on...well what they usually base it on: whether they're British and whether they don't like them. Tick both those boxes and they are dead to rights

If it's not her who is it? Why aren't they naming names?

You're being so last page. Even money on Holmes, 5-1 Farrah, 12-1 Radcliffe, and Ennis the 100-1 outsider because she is pretty

So does the UCI still test suspended cyclists or was this because his reinstatement was impending?

Race Radio claims to have seen the list. I would definitely have thought Farah otherwise, Holmes had retired by then.

So does the UCI still test suspended cyclists

Cyclists under temporary suspension have to remain in the testing pool in order to be eligible to start racing again after their period of suspension ends. If you didn't have to be tested while suspended, every athlete would deliberately get a 2 year ban at age 20 in order to indulge in an epic performance building drugs binge, the results of which would be manifest for years after their rejoining the sport.

Cyclists under temporary suspension have

erectile problems

ftfy

Ennis the 100-1 outsider because she is pretty

She is, isn't she.

Lance's agent and business partner pony up $0.5 m to settle their share of the Landis lawsuit

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2014/12/19/lance-armstrong-stapleton-knaggs-landis-cse-settlement/20655287/

I enjoyed this

"On October 22 2014, true to form for a Muppet, Santambrogio tested positive for testosterone and now faces the possibility of being banned from competing for life"

from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro_Santambrogio

that's a special kind of stupidity