Recent content by Golden Hawk

Yes, its correct that it variates a lot. But in each case, where the beginning of the suspension time is settled, the judge always carefully decide the correct suspension time, according to the existing rules. Since 2005 where UCI became a member of WADA, the UCI regulation has been following...

I am kind of surprised, that so few are aware about the meaning of the actual status in Valverdes case. But okay, if your only source for the doping cases is Cyclingnews, I can easily understand why most of you are unaware! I am a huge fan of Cyclingnews, but they just seem to be hopeless to...

Well, I gave a long answer in my previous post to try and draw the complete picture. I wanted to answer the question by what I wrote, but I guess my answer perhaps came out in a slightly unclear way. The point is, that in case Valverde will be succesfull to convince the judge of TNA, that he...

First of all, it would take some kind of miracle for Valverde, to escape being suspended 2 years by the Italian Tribunale Nazionale Antidoping (TNA). The CONI prosecutor has asked for that judgement to be confirmed. The decision from TNA will arrive within 4 weeks, and both the CONI prosecutor...

New WADA rules are needed! Indeed it has been anoying with this lack of speed in Operacion Puerto. Everything got on standby, when the Spanish court refused to handover evidense, as long as the court case against Fuentes still was being arbitrated. To many it seems strange, that Italy and...