Asking G about the D-word
Geraint Thomas is poised to win the 2018 Tour de France. He’s been asked a lot of things but the race has somehow been void of questions about doping… so, o...
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Comment on Froome at the Tour: “end the unhealthy climate”
The Tour de France began cleaning up 20 years ago and it remains a work in progress in 2018 but surely the saga of an adverse analytical finding could be be...
The Program – First Watch
For any cycling fan, it is near impossible to arrive at the movie theatre, buy a ticket to The Program, and munch on a choc-top without having already formed an...
EPO and the “spate” of “sudden deaths”
Doping is bad. The moral objections are reiterated often and most of us agree that those who opt to cheat in order to win a race are nasty culprits who are dest...
Brian Cookson interview – part 04
At the end of September, there is meant to be a vote for who the next president of the UCI is going to be. Well before the ballot is cast, there has been plenty...
Brian Cookson interview – part 03
In the third part of RIDE’s interview with the president of British Cycling, Brian Cookson from 26 August, he explains the hopes he and his federation had for T...
Retrospective: “Blood Money” – RIDE #33 (2006)
On 23 May 2006, a Spaniard who was an owner of a cycling team was arrested in Madrid. On the same day, raids on a clinic by police discovered 211 bags of blood ...
Beaten by the shadow of doubt…
Flashback from RIDE #38 (published September 2007) Michael Rasmussen missed a few doping controls in the lead-up to the Tour de Franc...
The more things change…
01 February 2013. A new month. Another day. Another confession. The world of competitive cycling continues to gobble itself up with stupidity at a time when it ...
Farce of the fifth “win”
Almost five years after the 2003 Tour de France had ended, RIDE Cycling Review published a story by Jean-François Quenet that examined the result of the cen...