Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Systematic blood doping at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The U.S. cycling team's successes were coloured by revelations that riders had blood transfusions before their events, a practice known as blood-doping. The transfusions were to increase red blood cells in riders' blood. That would take more oxygen to their muscles.
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.
Blood doping is the injection of red blood cells, related blood products that contain red blood cells, or artificial oxygen containers. This is done by extracting and storing one's own blood prior to an athletic competition, well in advance of the competition so that the body can replenish its natural levels of red blood cells, and subsequently injecting the stored blood immediately before ...
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 ...
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 ...
Three days later, it was announced that the UCI had been following the activities of Eržen and Slovenian cycling in general in several investigations. [34] Also in May 2019, the UCI suspended mountain biker Christina Kollmann due to blood doping violations in relation to Operation Aderlass. [35]
List of doping cases in cycling; 0–9. Doping at the 1998 Tour de France; Doping at the 1999 Tour de France; Doping at the 2007 Tour de France; A. Djamolidine ...
At the time of the 1999 Tour de France there was no official test for EPO. In August 2005, 60 remaining antidoping samples from the 1998 Tour and 84 remaining antidoping samples given by riders during the 1999 Tour, were tested retrospectively for recombinant EPO by using three recently developed detection methods.