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Astana rider banned for a year following positive drug test
The UCI announced Michele Gazzoli's one-year suspension for a 'non-intentional Anti-Doping Rule Violation'.

Bullets in the post and football ties: What’s going on at the Volta a Portugal?
Portuguese domestic cycling is in a disastrous state.

Martin and Pinot raise eyebrows over doping grey areas
Martin argues that the doping line can be crossed simply by taking an aspirin when you don't need one.

Majority of W52-FC Porto squad reportedly caught with banned drugs in anti-doping bust
The team were pulled from racing at the weekend as police descended in a major anti-doping operation.

Sports director reportedly arrested in Portuguese anti-doping operation
The 'clean test' operation involved 120 agents as houses were searched and substances and instruments were seized.

Taylor Phinney: There was a huge amount of opiate abuse in the peloton
"I had a cortisone injection, eventually, when I broke my leg and I was just flying ... and half of my leg didn’t work."

French prosecutors seek two-year prison sentence for EPO-era dope 'doctor' Bernard Sainz
Bernard Sainz and a blast from the past.

Running a doping program could soon be a criminal offense in the US
The fight against doping in the United States took a significant leap forward on Monday with the passage of a landmark bill through the U...

Two riders added to long list of doping suspensions from Vuelta a Costa Rica
Two Costa Rican cyclists have been provisionally suspended following positive tests from the 2019 edition of the lamentably notorious Vue...

Why an 'ethics of fairness' is a better way of looking at doping
As another decade in cycling begins with WorldTour doping investigations (Operation Aderlass) and news of Bjarne Riis returning to the Wo...

Russia banned from major sporting events for four years
WADA's has executive committee (ExCo) has unanimously endorsed the recommendation of the Compliance Review Committee (CRC) to declare Rus...