2012
Longo vs. Landis
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Landis persecuted, but Longo venerated by a confused France. The credibility of the anti-doping process hangs in the balance...
2012
Riccardo Riccò‘s career ends with a twelve year ban for doping
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Riccò: I feel somewhat "sorry" for him, not apologetically, but rather, knowing how he will probably struggle w/ life in general...
2012
A Young Irishman on the Bike in Europe
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Check out the latest blog post from elite Irish cyclist Darragh Zaidan...2012
Q&A with Nico Roche - your chance to ask the questions!
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Have your say and shape the upcoming Q&A with Nico Roche! We want your questions!
2012
SOPA Will Take Us Back to the Dark Ages
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Behind the almost unreadable (yet truly scary) text of SOPA (and its Senate doppelganger, PIPA, or the Protect Intellectual Property Act) is a desire, likely fueled by powerful media conglomerate backers, to take us all back to the thin-pipe, content-distribution days of 1994 — right before the World Wide Web launched. From the moment the Internet and websites arrived, a veritable Pandora’s box of opportunities have opened to every average Joe and Josephine in the world. Everyone became a content creator. Everyone had an audience.2011
The Intersection between Sport, Doping and Life
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"...the intersection b/w sport, doping and life can be massively chaotic and it's disingenuous for those-in-the-know to pretend otherwise. The moral or ethical relativism that emerges at points along the trajectory of my particular story through 2007 is actually a reflection of the honesty and sincerity - and transparency - that I've embraced now..."2011
Economics in 2011
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Mary is the proprietor of a bar in Dublin. She realises that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronise her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later...2011
Guest Post: Freddy the Frog on Longo, Ciprelli, EPO and Pitel.
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Jeannie Longo is threatening to sue AFLD for disclosing her anti-doping violations (while tacitly confirming the validity of the charges against her), so we're sharing a guest post by Freddy the Frog in which he skewers the Frenchwoman and her husband Patrice Ciprelli but suggests it unlikely that Longo's former rival Edwige Pitel (with whom Ciprelli had a short-lived affair) was the beneficiary of Ciprelli's resourcefulness in obtaining EPO from the Far East.
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