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October 2012
October 21, 2012



Belgian champion Tom Boonen chats with Lance Armstrong at the start.
CyclingNews: Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) believes that the onus is on Lance Armstrong to end the doubt over the American's racing history, and is frustrated by catharctic change currently engulfing cycling.





SKY
Peloton: Team Sky's zero tolerance policy on drug use needs to be scrutinized in light of the Lance Armstrong scandal, according to one of the world's leading experts on blood doping.





Basso
VeloNation: Success for Liquigas on its final day in the peloton.















Kevin Pauwels
VeloNation: Broken chain ends Nys’ chances in fast Czech race; van Paassen outsprints Compton in women’s event.





Ligthart and Mørkøv
VeloNation: Brilliant racing brings event to a close.





UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup #1 - Oct 21 (Start List),
Crocodile Trophy - Oct 20-29 (Stages & Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour of Beijing - Oct 9-13 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Tasmania - Oct 2-7 (Stages & Results),







Jonathan Vaughters (Garmin-Sharp)
CyclingNews: Garmin-Sharp manager Jonathan Vaughters has questioned Sky’s latest anti-doping policy, in which all riders and staff must sign a declaration confirming that they have no past or present involvement in doping in order to remain at the team.































Johny Schleck
VeloNation: “This is not a life.”





Shame game: Lance Armstrong and his team have tainted a sport in which Britain have thrived in
DailyMail: That is the drastic action demanded by Britain's double gold-medal winner Daley Thompson, who feels that the Olympic movement itself is suffering through association with certain areas of a sport that have almost become a byword for cheating and drug-taking.





Lance Armstrong at the Sydney Olympics (Reuters)
EuroSport: The Lance Armstrong doping scandal reaches a decisive day on Monday when cycling's governing body announces whether it has ratified the US Anti-Doping Agency's sanctions, but whatever happens the affair is set to run and run.






Phil Liggett
VeloNation: Cycling commentator Phil Liggett has been a vocal supporter of Lance Armstrong’s for some time, but now concedes that the proof is too strong against the American.





VeloNation: Anti-doping scientist warns that more needs to be done.





TravisBadger don't give a shit
RedKitePrayer: Anti-Doping programs in big American professional sports – the NFL, the NHL, MLB and NBA – are a joke. Even after “reform efforts,” like the 2007 release of the “Mitchell Report” on baseball, the core problem for all of those sports is that they have left control and regulation of anti-doping efforts to the sports themselves.








Bicycling: Lance Armstrong shook off the cloud of doping allegations dogging him Friday as he urged backers of his Livestrong charity to continue the fight against cancer.





BikeRadar verdict: 5 out of 5 stars. "Incredibly refined, with otherworldly ride quality, great stiffness and sharp-edged handling."






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UCI president Hein Verbruggen with Lance Armstrong in 2002
CyclingNews: Lance Armstrong provided a suspicious doping control at the 2001 Tour de Suisse but did not test positive for EPO, according to Martial Saugy, the director of the Lausanne laboratory which carried out the tests.










Contador
VeloNation: Vuelta champ speaks out on Armstrong saga.





[2012 Livestrong Challenge-Austin] Cyclists gather at the start of the annual Livestrong Challenge in Austin, Texas. On the far right is Livestrong president and CEO Doug Ulman. Photo: Frederic J. Brown | AFP
VeloNews: Riders in Sunday’s Livestrong Challenge charity benefit ride expressed mixed opinions on the Lance Armstrong doping scandal and the legacy of a disgraced cyclist who is also a hometown hero.





The Rabobank team will be expected to make the podium on home soil
CyclingNews: In the aftermath of Rabobank's decision to park their sponsorship ties at the end of the season a flurry of varying reactions ensued. Garmin-Sharp's David Millar was one of the first to react on Twitter, with, "Dear Rabobank, you were part of the problem. How dare you walk away from the young clean guys who are part of the solution. Sickening."





Lance Armstrong came to Banff, Alberta, Canada to promote his foundation
CNN:  "I learned that many of the participants were extremely angered by their discovery that while each had paid $ 35,000 for their ability to ride with Armstrong they were only being provided with tax receipts for their contribution in the amount of $ 25,000. They had learned that only that amount was provided to the foundation and that $ 10,000 from each participant went directly "into Armstrong's jeans"'.







Velo Silex Bassons
InnerRing: The news that Christophe Bassons has been given a one year ban for missing an anti-doping control is no laughing matter.







Dead Star: First image in my head when I saw that McQuaid picture.

Good idea, so I ran with it.



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