About a month ago, we did a post questioning whether we were about to witness the of long distance running dominance. The jury is still out on that one, though a world record for Meseret Defar in Oslo in the 5000 m seems to suggest that even in Kenenisa Bekele is not going to continue […]
Archives for June 2007
“You can trust me”
These are radical times for the Tour de France and professional cycling. Michael Rasmussen, the wearer of the yellow jersey, celebrated yesterday for a great ride that saw him fend off Discovery’s attacks on the Col d’Aubisque, has been dumped off his team and the Tour after it was revealed that he had lied to […]
A culture of doping in cycling?
Yesterday (23 June), I wrote two posts about the ominous shadow of doping in cycling, with the Tour de France coming up. In , I gave the example of how Bjarne Riis, the winner of the 1996 Tour, recently admitted to doping. The problem is that he does not appear to be an isolated case, […]
Drugs work – but by how much?
Performance enhancing substances – do they work? And by how much? It’s a relevant question, and I thought it would be good to have a look at the answers. I was going to write an article on the Ethiopian dominance of long distance running in the last ten years, but we’ve been receiving such thoughtful […]
The shadow of drugs over the Tour de France
The 2007 Tour de France begins in about 2 weeks from today, and yet again, an ominous shadow is looming over the race and the sport in general. You’ll see a doping alert news search down the left hand side of our blog, and unfortunately, it’s been in overdrive since we started out. It seems […]
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