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In 1886, a Welsh cyclist is popularly reputed to have died after drinking a blend of cocaine, caffeine and strychnine, supposedly in the Bordeaux–Paris race. This was included in the 1997 International Olympic Committee study on the Historical Evolution of Doping Phenomenon, and listed as the presumed first death due to doping during a competition.
Pages in category "Doping cases in cycling" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 402 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Blood doping at 2007 Tour de France, one-year ban. 4 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Team CSC +6' 17" Received a two-year ban for blood doping at the 2004 Olympics and the 2004 Vuelta a España. Implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case in 2006. Given an eight-year ban for failing a tests for DHEA in 2009.
Colombian cyclist Miguel Ángel López was banned Wednesday for four years for doping. Lopez finished third in the Giro d’Italia and Spanish Vuelta races in 2018. The International Cycling Union ...
Femke Van den Driessche, the first cyclist to be sanctioned for mechanical doping. Motor doping, or mechanical doping, in competitive cycling terminology, is a method of cheating by using a hidden motor to help propel a racing bicycle. The term is an analogy to chemical doping in sport, cheating by using performance-enhancing drugs.
United States Anti-Doping Agency v. Lance Armstrong, the Lance Armstrong doping case, was a major doping investigation that led to retired American road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong being stripped of his seven consecutive Tour de France titles, along with one Olympic medal, and his eventual admission to using performance-enhancing drugs.
Cycling’s obsession with performance boosts is pushing the limits of fairness. When does the drive for victory sacrifice the integrity of the sport? Legal Enhancements Are Blurring the Line in ...
The Floyd Landis doping case was a doping scandal that featured Floyd Landis, the initial winner of the 2006 Tour de France. After a meltdown in Stage 16 , where he had lost ten minutes, Landis came back in Stage 17 , riding solo and passing his whole team.