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  • Shooting the messenger: how to lose at anti-doping

    In Italy, Mafia informers are shot or blown up. In cycling, dopers who inform on others aren’t blown up or shot, but they do risk being vilified for their actions by the very community they are acting to defend: some Read more

  • Commuting = Training?

    As readers of this blog will know I have a slightly complex relationship with cycling. I do, like many non-racing cyclists, have an interest in maintaining and improving my cycling-specific fitness, and like many regard my riding as ‘training’, although Read more

  • Sport and concussion: anecdotes, research and action

    Yesterday’s Tour de France stage saw one rider abandon with concussion (only after other riders complained he was a danger to them) and another ride to the finish after having fairly obvious concussive symptoms. Many sports have had issues with Read more

  • In praise of Altigraph

    Altigraph, a name that still makes my hairs stand on end. la Berarde – col de Spandelles – Grand Ballon – col de la Schlucht How would you plan a cycling holiday in France? Perhaps you would plan it around gastronomy or viticulture; possibly Read more

  • Cycling and depression: finding a balance

    Ex-professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton (in the news again recently, which you will know unless you were asleep for 60 minutes) claimed in 2009 that his second positive test for doping (DHEA) was the result of his taking a herbal remedy to counter longstanding Read more

  • Tyler Hamilton blows the whistle…

    Tyler Hamilton has finally broken his silence on the FDA Lance Armstrong investigation, joining fellow ex-professional cyclists Floyd Landis, Joe Papp, Bernhard Kohl and Jörg Jaksche in attempting to tell the recent “truth” about the role of performance enhancing drugs in our beautiful sport Read more