Yesterday morning, Jérémy Roy published on his own official website an open letter in the wake of the recent events related to doping affairs in cycling and more specifically the results of the USADA case against Lance Armstrong who was stripped of his 7 Tour de France titles (among others).
This letter is available in French in this article of his website, but in order to make it accessible to a wider public, I decided to translate the letter, in collaboration with Jérémy.
Below you can find the English translation of Jérémy Roy's letter:
It all started with a report the AFLD published early October.
The AFLD report about the problems with the doping checks during the Tour de France 2009
On October 5th the AFLD published a 10 page document based on the reports of the two doctors in the Tour de France 2009. This document was sent to the UCI, to the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), to the Ministry of health and ...> Read the whole story | 2 comments | shown 3490x
After the 7 positive doping tests in the Tour de France 2008, a number of decisions have been taken which can have big impacts on German cycling. These decisions are the cancellation of two cycling events which should have taken place in Germany in 2009 (like each year) and stopping broadcasting the Tour de France on the German public TV channel ARD.
What happened before
In 2007 the German broadcasters (ARD and ZDF) had already decided to stop broadcasting the Tour de France 2007 right in the middle of it, after the positive doping test for the German rider Patrik Sinkewitz (see also my article about the end of the sponsoring of the T-Mobile team). And that was done despite the fact that it were those two broadcasters who had asked the organiser of the Tour de France, A.S.O., to do everything it could to fight doping. At that time a commercial channel ...> Read the whole story | 3 comments | shown 7954x
Riis Cycling, looking for a new sponsor to take up the place left by CSC at the end of this year, has found a new partner in Saxo Bank, an online investment bank.
In the mean time, Saxo Bank has immediately become the Danish team's co-sponsor. Therefore, in the Tour de France the team's riders will already defend the colours of the two brands with Team CSC/Saxo Bank as their team name.
This co-sponsoring contract ends at the end of this year when CSC will stop its sponsoring and Saxo Bank become's the team's main sponsor; the team will than become Team Saxo Bank.
The contract will run for 3 years, so the team now has a new sponsor until the end of 2011.
Bjarne Riis, the team's owner, indicated to have found the perfect partner for the future: We are extremely proud to become associated wit ...
The Vuelta 2008, the Tour of Spain, will take place from 30 August until 21 September ... without Team High Road!
Other news: Ivan Basso will make his comeback at Liquigas ...
The Vuelta without Team High Road
The organisor of the Tour of Spain, Unipublic would normally only announce the team selection for this 63rd edition early May, but apparently it's already known that Team High Road will not be part of it.
Paris-Nice 2008, the cycling race to be held between 9 and 16 March 2008, today announced a list of 20 cycling teams who will participate: 17 of the 18 UCI ProTour teams and 3 Pro Continental teams who recently got a wildcard for the ProTour races.
The missing team is Astana which will also be missing in the ... Tour de France!
Astana will not be invited to cycling races organised by A.S.O. in 2008
In a press release A.S.O., organisor of races like Paris-Nice, the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix, la Flèche Wallonne, Paris-Tours, etc., announced that Astana will not be invited to any of its races in 2008.
A.S.O. explains this decision by saying that the team caused important damage to the Tour de France and to cycling in general in 2006 and 2007 (as a reminder: the Astana team was built on what remained of the Liberty Seguros-Würth team which was heavily involved in the Puer ...> Read the whole story | 2 comments | shown 3740x
After Michael Rasmussen's confession last Thursday in Denmark, today the Vogelzang committee published her 48 pages report about his case ...
UPDATE 17 November 2007: added new information on a court case/settlement proposed by Rasmussen, Rasmussen's blood analysis, reaction Erik Breukink and technical gadgets for the cycling team (see here).
What happened before?
Michael Rasmussen was wearing the yellow jersey in the Tour de France when a Danish TV reporter heard something strange on the Italian TV. Davide Cassani, a former professional cyclist and now consultant for the Italian TV during the Tour, told live on Rai TV that he admired Rasmussen's courage and willingness to win because he saw him training in Italy in June while it was raining.
The Danish TV reporter who heard that thougt that was strange since he knew that Michael Rasmussen dec ...