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WADA prez Witold Banka doing a victory lap -
https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cx21k881djlo
More than 300 sanctions have been handed to Russian athletes following the seizure of Moscow laboratory data in 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) says.

The body has now concluded its investigation, dubbed Operation Lims, with 291 athletes sanctioned - and 302 sanctions imposed.

Competitors from 22 sports have been punished by 23 different anti-doping organisations, with weightlifting (107 athletes) and athletics (93) the most frequently sanctioned.

Eleven athletes have received sanctions for multiple violations, while four further cases have been charged but not resolved, with the final judgement still awaited.
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An Italian amateur cyclist tests positive for EPO for a second time in the latest doping scandal to rock gran fondo racing.
https://velo.outsideonline.com/news/epo-bust-gran-fondo-doping-questions-amateur/
Felice Giangregorio, 38, is provisionally suspended after testing positive for recombinant erythropoietin (EPO), Italian anti-doping authorities confirmed.

The case is significant because Giangregorio, a top performer on the Italian circuit, previously served a four-year ban after a positive test in October 2019, also for EPO. The story was first reported on Gran Fondo Daily.

It is the latest doping scandal to hit the thriving amateur racing scene.
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I suppose it had to happen - drug tests for MyWhoosh cyclists
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...clists-random-drug-tests-compete-mywhoosh-app
First came the boom in virtual cycling, with thousands of people from across the globe competing against each other. Then came cash prizes. Now one major online platform has taken the next logical step by launching anti-doping testing for e-racers.

MyWhoosh, which hosts the UCI Esports World Championships, has told the Guardian that the top riders in its weekly Sunday Race Club competition will now face random drug tests after they compete.
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Rob5091 said:
An Italian amateur cyclist tests positive for EPO for a second time in the latest doping scandal to rock gran fondo racing.
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hope this won't harm Danilo Celano's clean image, now that he just started to dominate the Italian Granfondo scene
 
Rob5091 said:
I assume that the stories of thyroid medicine taking were related in someway to the use of peptides.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...-doping-performance-enhancing-drugs-questions
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Levothyroxine isn't banned, you don't even need a TUE to use it and it's dirt cheap. Granted it' not a miracle drug, it can help with weight loss while retaining muscle mass and it's stimulating, but getting the right dosage can be tricky, too much and you end up with nasty side effects (overstimulation, heat intolerance, cardiac palpitations, muscle loss,... it can be life threatening if you go too far) and the window is rather narrow.
 
Get 'em while their young and ....
The Youth Olympic Games (maximum age 18) in Dakar this Autumn and the ITA are on the ball!
Ahead of Dakar 2026, athletes are also encouraged to complete the “Mastering Your Sporting Journey” on Athlete365. ... This course helps young athletes develop the right mindset and essential knowledge in areas such as mental health, safeguarding, prevention of competition manipulation, and anti-doping.
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If there's a brave journalist out there, looking for a good story, then the whole kiddies doping for sports contracts, is worth investigation.
 
Armchair Cyclist said:
It's almost as though bike manufacturers have tried to make wheels rotate with minimal frictional resistance.
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Certainly, but how does it spin faster after faling, than when you were still pedalling(downhill)? Surely looks weird and suspicious to my eye. The few times i have been unfortunate enough to fall downhill or flat, my backwheel hasn't been spinning like that🤔it has just stopped like it should have. Off course my bike is not WT-level, but it still is a very nice(expensive) roadbike. I just think we are witnessing total enhanced games unfold before our eyes. The unthinkable records from EPO-era broken, Vinge vs Teddy etc. feels like who wins is the one who pushes the boundaries the furthest. That is one reason I hate Mauro&Co, they have unlimited state owned funding and no morals, they have made the hoax so big, that the socialmedia generation just accepts it, no matter how ridicilous it seems.

Why I just don't stop watching then? Well at least now I have a lovely family and it is the most important thing in the world. But also pro cycling has been my(nowadays freetime) passion for almost 30 years, so it is not easy. Still i watch at least the highlights, but have noticed that the races were the biggest hoax participates, I only watch for laughs or replays. PR was for me and I know for MANY others like a breath of fresh air.
 
Is there no football thread?

Vitinha has gone from being mediocre to the best in the world.
He was a player who used to get winded, he couldn't physically handle the matches, now he's a beast. It wasn't a tactical change, but a physical one.

So much for the idea that physical attributes don't matter in football. This player is a great example
 
Did not know that WADA get to be on the drug busts! Have they got the big coats with WADA in yellow like the FBI, I wonder.
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media...ted-hit-against-pharmaceutical-crime-networks
Between April and November 2025, law enforcement, judicial, customs, medical and anti-doping authorities from 30 countries joined forces in Operation SHIELD VI. Europol coordinated this global effort targeting the trafficking of counterfeit and misused medicines, as well as illicit doping substances and food supplements. As in the previous operations, the 2025 edition was supported by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), Frontex, INTERPOL, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and national medicine agencies.
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Coppi-Bartali said:
Is there no football thread?
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Took about 20 seconds to find:

Doping in Soccer/Football

Just wanted to hear some people's opinions on this. I mean, we have all heard of two big Spanish teams being linked to OP, and team/s in Italy with their masses of legal drugs. But how widespread do people think it is in football/soccer? Try as I might, I can't imagine Fulham or Wigan players...
forum.cyclingnews.com forum.cyclingnews.com
 
 
 
Two Caja Rural riders in the top 10 on a Dauphiné mountain-top finish, just before their first Tour de France? Lovely stuff.

Of course, half the field is sick, injured, or missing, and the remaining field falls off a cliff after the first handful of riders. Still, that is some remarkably well-timed climbing form. Very considerate of it to appear exactly now.
 
When you think of Missouri now, think peptides!
https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/news/local/usps-seizure-newton-county-missouri/amp/
Two southwest Missouri men who have been under federal surveillance for the last two years for selling illegal weight loss drugs on the internet are named in a federal seizure notice that was carried out Wednesday. ... The reason behind the seizures, according to federal court documents, the business Huston and Crider operated, Blome Research, shipped over 31,000 packages through the United States mail from their Seneca and Carl Junction addresses. Court records say the men deposited at least $15 million into their various bank accounts from 2023 to 2025.
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More info on the "bathtub boys" -
https://thinksteroids.com/community/threads/blome-research-us-based-peptide-seller-busted.134443174/
Long before federal authorities became involved, Blome Research was already one of the most controversial names in peptide forums. Reddit threads discussing the company stretch back years and contain recurring themes: questions about manufacturing practices, allegations of hand-filled vials, reports of crystallized peptide material, concerns about sterility, questions around website transparency, debates over product sourcing and allegations regarding company ownership and behaviour. The controversy around Blome Research was not limited to the products. It’s claimed that “Blome” appeared to reference Kurt Blome, a Nazi-era biological warfare figure.
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Sounds interesting although the bit about mandatory sharing of data could be .... problematic
https://ita.sport/news/the-ita-explores-the-potential-of-power-data-in-cyclings-anti-doping-efforts/
...ITA has launched a two-year feasibility and pilot study exploring whether power data could contribute as a supplementary source of intelligence for anti-doping purposes in professional road cycling. The project, approved in March 2025 by the Funding Committee of the UCI anti-doping program, aims to assess whether longitudinal performance modelling based on riders’ power data can meaningfully support anti-doping strategies in a scientifically robust and operationally responsible manner.

Importantly, the initiative is a research and feasibility study. Its purpose is not to establish anti-doping rule violations through performance data, but to evaluate whether certain patterns or evolutions in performance may, in the future, help inform areas such as targeted testing strategies, sample retention decisions, additional laboratory analysis or investigations.
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Around 60 riders have so far consented to participate in the project across the following teams:

Team Picnic PostNL (UWT)

Team Jayco AlUla (UWT)

Team Visma | Lease a Bike (UWT)

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (UWT)

Team Cofidis (PRT)

Additional teams, including Uno-X Mobility (UWT), Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT) and Team TotalEnergies (PRT), have also approved participation frameworks, with advanced discussions continuing with other teams.
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The feasibility study aims to assess whether power monitoring can be implemented in a scientifically robust and operationally meaningful manner within the anti-doping framework of men’s professional road cycling.

If validated by the ITA and approved by both the UCI Funding Committee and the UCI Management Committee, the UCI regulations will be amended to require the mandatory sharing to the ITA of individual power data for all professional men’s road riders.
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Rob5091 said:
Sounds interesting although the bit about mandatory sharing of data could be .... problematic
https://ita.sport/news/the-ita-explores-the-potential-of-power-data-in-cyclings-anti-doping-efforts/
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Interesting. Big data and the use of AI obviously represents a significant opportunity to improve detection of doping, or even to flag potential concerns that could be addressed by investigating bodies. Doesn’t get around the risks of administrative corruption and capture, but it would be a step forward regardless. Data governance protocols would have to be developed and applied, while I think making it mandatory would be desirable. Saying that, if the majority of teams engaged while others didn’t, that’s a powerful statement in itself.
 
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