Anti-Doping

Officials warn that DHEA is sold over the counter but remains banned in sport after the latest cycling doping case.

Italian rider Linda Laporta faces suspension after a positive test for ostarine during the UAE Tour Women in rare doping case in women's peloton.

The 'two-strikes-and-out' sanction for teams can seem blunt and unfair, but cycling’s history means the sport still can’t afford to let down its guard.

This 'indirect' oversight system doesn’t catch cheaters red-handed, but it can still end careers. Here's how it works across world sport.

A trio of biological passport cases sidelines a third-tier Portuguese team in the latest doping crackdown sweeping pro cycling.

Veteran Óscar Sevilla’s Medellín-EPM team banned for 30 days after passport violations involving two former riders.

Italian media report the arrest of ex-pro cyclist and OnlyFans creator Andrea Piccolo with counterfeit cash, telescopic baton in the latest chapter in a dramatic career collapse.

UCI bans Azerbaijani junior for testing positive for methamphetamines after 'intelligence-led' testing at road world championships.

Pro peloton slams data-collection concept, but insiders explain the nuance.

Team Polti VisitMalta — owned by ex-pros Alberto Contador and Ivan Basso — immediately released Colombian rider at center of latest anti-doping case.

Gran fondo world time trial and US masters road champion provisionally banned in the latest doping case from the sometimes-murky world of masters racing.

'Clean cycling' group puts Tapentadol and the ‘medicalization of the sport’ at center of efforts as UCI rolls out bio passport crackdown.

A Portuguese rider did not challenge the sanction in what's the latest in an apparent uptick in doping enforcement by the UCI using the biological passport.

Unibet Rose Rockets drops Italian racer in the latest case of a pro being flagged for irregularities in their biological passport.

The cycling governing body said the doping case involved an 18-year-old junior from Azerbaijan in an 'intelligence-led' control.

Is the drive to race lean reaching new extremes? The czars of anti-doping, WADA, think so, with weight loss drugs now under scrutiny.

Cycling's biological passport is back in headlines as Lazkano case exposes how the UCI is using its most controversial anti-doping tool.

The ban is the first of its kind since 2021 when an Italian team was also hit by two cases within a 12-month period.

Breakout rider of 2021 Tour de France Franck Bonnamour banned from competition by UCI due to abnormalities on biological passport.

Tolhoek — whose lone pro win came in 2019 — tested positive for anabolic steroids in November 2023 in an out-of-competition control.

It's the second case involving CERA, the notorious blood-doping product from the 2000s, during the past few months.

Ilkhan Dostiyev, 22, tested positive for CERA during a doping control this summer. His team states he admitted use of the drug.

‘It is impossible to slip through the net,’ says UCI, as new measures are introduced.

UCI officials ruled that Colombian rider was guilty of an anti-doping violation 'for use and possession' of Menotropin during the 2022 Giro d'Italia.

Franck Bonnamour will be sidelined in accordance with anti-doping rules after the UCI cites 'unexplained abnormalities.'

French anti-doping authorities table case against Lennert Van Eetvelt, who will resume racing later this month.

Lennert Van Eetvelt is temporarily suspended and facing possible sanction in use of a nasal spray in February.

UCI vice president and Olympian told investigators the product was used to treat her pet dog.

Here's what's making headlines on Monday, January 2.

Belgian cyclocross star denies knowingly taking banned substances, and vows to legally challenge a ban.

Two arrested in 'distribution of prohibited products,' according to Spain's Guardia Civil.

Europol reveals that 'the case is now in the hands of the judiciary.'

'The bloody-mindedness that underpinned his seven Tour victories was the same bloody-mindedness that led to the loss of all those Tours and the lifetime ban,' writes Irish journalist.

World Anti-Doping Agency to launch a new module to detect human growth hormone.

Hailed as 'an example,' Alejandro Valverde didn’t make the right choices when he should have, writes Peter Cossins.

The Portuguese cycling federation confirmed it will extend the application of the biological passport to all national teams in 2023.

A whistleblower tipped off the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in December 2021 about suspicions surrounding Ray, who was living and racing in the United States.

Nash was sanctioned for a litany of offenses stemming from an investigation spurred by a whistleblower.

'Anyone who is thinking to use something needs to be an idiot. That’s it. They need to be an idiot,' says Bahrain Victorious team boss.

Looking at the hypocrisy that cuts through our sport.

Europol releases photos of Tour de France raids as 412 capsules with undetermined brown content and 67 capsules with undetermined white content were found.

Exclusive interview with the UCI president on all matters doping and the fight for clean cycling.

A look at what drives athletes to dope and what could be done to circumvent riders from considering the action.

The Russian rider could receive up to a two-year suspension after missing three anti-doping tests in a 12-month period.

Does cycling have a cultural problem? Can a clean future for the sport and its murky past coexist? In this opinion piece from freelance writer Craig Fry, the integrity of cycling is examined and found wanting.

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