Here's some reaction to top pro cyclists being suspended from the 2006 Tour de France for suspected blood-doping:
Jan Ullrich, suspended from Tour: “I feel I'm a victim. I am in absolute shock. It's the worst thing that has ever happened to me in my career. I can only say again that I have nothing to do with this thing. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/30/reaction-to-blood-doping-scandal/
The two favored contenders in the the 2006 Tour de France have been thrown out in shame, caught up in a blood doping probe that started in May.
Ivan Basso, looking for his first Tour de France win, and Jan Ullrich, hoping to fulfill the promise he showed as a young Tour winner in 1997, will be watching the Tour from the sidelines this year.
The decision came less than 24 hours before the three-week race is set to begin. It changes the whole complexion of the race, and could help propel Americans like Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer and George Hincapie to the front of the pack. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/30/its-a-whole-new-tour-de-france-basso-and-ullrich-tossed-out/
This could be a very different Tour de France than the bike race we envisioned just a few days ago.
Favorites Ivan Basso, left, and Jan Ullrich have been named in media reports among the patients of Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor who is the focus of the Operacion Puerto drug probe in Spain. Eurosport says Thursday that the cyclists were identified by sources for Cadena Ser radio. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/29/basso-ullrich-others-named-in-doping-probe-radio-report/
Italy's Ivan Basso is the odds-on favorite to win the 2006 Tour de France; Germany's Jan Ullrich is the second most popular pick.
The two are touted at OddsChecker.com and PinnacleSports.com, two web-based gaming sites. Basso also won the TdF poll at Biking Bis last month and is the leading choice among participants in the Tour de France pool at the Smithers Minneapolis website. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/29/basso-generally-favored-to-win-tour-de-france/
If you can't follow live Tour de France coverage from a TV or on the internet, use your WAP-enabled cellphone.
WAPReview.com tells how to set up your cell to capture live feeds from CyclingNews and VeloNews when the Tour de France starts Saturday, continuing through July 23. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/29/check-the-tour-de-france-on-your-cellphone/
If you want some insight into what cyclists talk about in the peloton, check out the Dave Zabriskie Podcast at MissingSaddle.com.
His latest installment, discovered by TdF Blog 2006, talks about Russian cyclists and their mullets.
Further, the Salt Lake City native is featured in Bicycling magazine with Phonak team leader Floyd Landis. Zabriskie interviews …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/28/odd-talk-in-the-peloton/
(Updated July 29 — Astana-Wurth gets green light to race — CyclingNews) Tour de France organizers are seeking to ban the Astana-Wurth cycling team from the bike race this year after published reports link several members to a blood-doping probe in Spain. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/27/vinokourov-team-may-not-race-in-tour-de-france/
True or false, proven or unproven, this is going to be a huge distraction to German cyclist Jan Ullrich and some other cyclists in the Tour de France.
The Spanish newspaper El Pais reports that documents found in a raid during the Operation Puerto blood-doping probe relate to Ullrich, the winner of the 1997 Tour de France and a favorite this year.
Says Ullrich: “That has nothing to do with me.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/26/spanish-newspaper-links-jan-ullrich-others-to-doping-probe/
Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov, last year's number 5 finisher in the Tour de France bike race, can race this year after his team got the go ahead to compete beginning July 1.
Vinokourov's team is Astana Wurth. It was formerly Liberty Seguros-Wurth until a doping scandal convinced the Spanish subsidiary of the Liberty Mutual insurance company to abandon the team. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/23/vinokourov-gets-good-news-he-can-race-in-tour-de-france/
The female duo Ditty Bops currently making their way cross-country by bicycle isn't the first band smitten by the bicycling bug.
A love of the bicycle caused German band Kraftwerk to whither creatively for 17 year before reuniting a couple of years ago to create Tour de France Soundtracks.
The love of bikes and cycling has united the Ditty Bops for their road trip. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/06/20/bicycle-crazy-bands-ditty-bops-and-kraftwerk-couldnt-be-more-different/
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