The other Spanish doping case: what’s up with Mosquera?
It took the UCI two weeks to get the results of Ezequiel Mosquera’s A sample from the Vuelta’s stage 18. Two and a half months later we’re still waiting for the results of the B sample. With the...
View ArticleRiccardo Ricco. Where’s the family?
Family and friends? We’d like some precision on that, if you don’t mind. “Family and friends” is taken from a Velonews article about an evening with Riccardo Ricco and his supporters at what we’re...
View ArticleRiccardo Ricco. Blood and stupidity.
Aldo Sassi, please come back and fix this. The famed Italian coach and staunch anti-doping advocate took Riccardo Ricco under his wing. It was his last project and perhaps his most challenging one....
View ArticleVacansoleil suspends Ricco. Damage control begins.
Something about chickens or vultures or more precisely cobras coming home to roost. A story about faulty decision-making, bad karma and shit mist. Vacansoleil is now in full back-pedal away from...
View ArticleVacansoleil and UCI’s empty threat.
It’s a question of apples versus more apples. In the wake of Ricarrdo Ricco’s botched stale blood transfusion, there’s news or rather wild conjecture suggesting that the UCI might adjust Vacansoleil’s...
View ArticleGiro boss Zomegnan’s dilemma: dopers or diabetics.
Tough call, maybe the toughest. Is Angelo Zomegnan prepared to wield his razor sharp axe and cut Vacansoleil from the Giro d’Italia? Some some yes, some say no, some say he’s spending the next few days...
View ArticleDe Gendt foils sprinters. Sunny team wins in Paris-Nice.
This is Paris-Nice, the Race to the Sun. Who else would win but the team of Vacansoleil, the Sunny Vacationers. Thomas De Gendt, FDJ’s Jérémy Roy and Leopard Trek’s Jens Voigt rode a tailwind into...
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