Grid of Posts 3×2

  • Doping and the placebo effect

    Remember Dario Frigo, caught at the 2002 Giro d’Italia with bags full of saline which had been sold to him as the blood doping agent HemAssist (see Lindsay, 2011; Tucker and Dugas, 2011 for an interesting take on this drug in cycling)? Frigo Read more

  • Doping and whistleblowing: lessons from academia

    What do Betsy Andreu and Professor Robert Sprague have in common: a desire to tell the truth despite the pain it causes themselves and others. Sprague was instrumental in uncovering the fraudulent nature of a research collaborator: as a result Read more

  • German defence minister resigns

    German defence minister resigns – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/01/german-defence-minister-resigns-plagiarism   – sent from my Android phone with Guardian   Anywhere The parallels between academic and sporting fraud are instructive… Read more

  • Something for Contador from the 1930s

    There have been many vegetarian (and vegan) cyclists. I am not one of them, although I have been severely dropped by one (thanks, Tim) and they have organisation. In my other life I have been fascinated by the history of Read more

  • Live race coverage via twitter

    “This is going to be 17k of full Euro man contact…” (nyvelocity) “Tomorrow’s winner gets a Donkey. Pretty sure the winner today gets a Aardvark and a years supply of duck fat for Frites” (Race Radio) “For you US cycling Read more

  • Why so quiet Chade O. Grey…

    The emails and tweets of from Grey Manrod Ass. have provided some of the funniest and most incisive comments on the malaise that has befallen professional cycling since the early 1990s. Doping has long been rife in the peloton, but Read more