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Former pro cyclist who sold EPO & HGH is naming names...including amateurs

Here's what we know and what has been made public so far. Former professional cyclist Joe Papp has plead guilty to selling performance enhancing drugs...including selling drugs like EPO and HGH to both professional and amateur athletes.

More imporatntly he's cooperating with authorities and naming his customers.

We also know that those customers include cyclist and other athletes....perhaps even triathletes.

New Tour de France doping allegations: Floyd Landis claims Lance Armstrong taught him how to cheat

As the prologue of the 2010 Tour De France gets underway the Wall Street Journal has published a story that once again exposes seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong to scathing allegations of doping.

In THIS newest Wall Street Journal story Floyd Landis, who after years of denying that he doped admitted to cheating during this year's tour of California, tells the Wall Street Journal that Lance Armstrong taught him how to cheat using EPO, testosterone patches and blood doping when they were teammates on the U.S. Postal Service team.

You can read more about Landis allegations made during the Tour of California HERE.

Is EPO making a comeback in cycling: experts fear microdosing?

Professional cycling is all too often the poster child for illegal performance enhancing drug use.

That's why the sport of cycling was one of the first endurance sports to get serious about cheating and develop the strict biological passport.

The World Anti-Doping Agency also supports the biological passport. The passport (developed about two and half years ago) follows the athlete's blood and maintains a electronic record of the make-up of the blood and any substances, banned or not, that might potentially enhance performance.

Floyd Landis admits to drug use and implicates Lance Armstrong and other top U.S. riders

After years of denying that he used performance enhancing drugs Floyd Landis, the dethroned winner if the 2006 Tour de France, has admitted to cheating in emails to bike racing officials.

“I want to clear my conscience,” Landis, who currently is racing for team OUCH-Bahati said. “I don’t want to be part of the problem any more.” 

Landis, in series of emails, admitted to using performance enhancing drugs as far back as 2002 when he was riding for the now-defunct United States Postal Service team which was once lead by Lance Armstrong

No kidding...money and ambition is why cyclist continue to dope

Thomas Frei was an up and coming rider on BMC's pro cycling team...that it until March when he tested positive for the red blood cell boosting drug EPO.

According to a story in Cycling News Frei said he did it for the money and ambition: "Of course I would have gone on doping. The money tempts you, it is the same for everyone," said Frei in a recent interview with Swiss website NZZ.ch.

The 25-year-old was in the process of negotiating for a higher salary when the wheel, literary, came off his cycling career.

Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack rider fails drug test

His name is Fuyu Li and he's one of the first Chinese riders to take out a professional cycling license, and now he's also one of the first Chinese pro bike riders to test positive positive for the banned substance Clenbuterol.

What makes this story potentially more interesting is that Fuyu Li rides for Team Radio Shack which is an American professional bicycling team lead by Lance Armstrong.

According to a recent team press release:

Danish triathlete admits to doping with EPO and is banned from all competition

30-year-old Danish triathlete Bjarne Møller, who has seven national titles to his named, has admitted to using EPO (a banned blood doping drug) in preparation for Ironman South Africa which takes place in a few weeks.

Because of his admission he has been banned from all competition by the Sports Confederation of Denmark while a doping committee set up by the Federation investigates the matter.

Feds likely to subpoena elite athletes: Dara Torres on investigated doctor's client list

(Canadian physician Anthony Galea examines a foot of a patient)

It started out simply enough at a border crossing between the U.S. and Canada.

An assistant to Canadian physician Anthony Galea was stopped at the border, searched and was found to be smuggling human growth hormone (HGH) and the drug Actovegin into the U.S....which is illegal.

The border bust launched an investigation into Canadian doctor Anthony Galea who works with some of the world's top athletes.

Floyd Landis: An American hero?

Is professional cyclist Floyd Landis an American hero, or is his story an American tragedy?

According to http://floydlandis.com...he's an American Hero.

The web site prominently proclaims:

"Fraud, Lies and Corruption: See how they convicted an innocent man."

Surprise: blood doping with Epo can kill you a new study finds

For decades doctors have warned about the potential deadly side-effects of using performance enhancing drugs, but now a new study of 4,000 patients with diabetes published in in The New England Journal of Medicine proves just how dangerous Epo can be when used..even when used properly under a doctor's care.

The study looked at the impact of the drug when used as approved and compared patients using the drug to a placebo group.

To their surprise researchers discovered that those patients using Epo (a red blood cell boosting drug used by some endurance athletes to cheat) had a higher incidents of heart attacks and double the incident of strokes compared to the placebo group.

Is this the future of doping in professional sports?

(This Belgian Blue cow was bread with a myostatin blocking predisposition) 

Here's something that you probably didn't know.

If you block myostatin in monkeys it will lead to skeletal muscle growth with few or no discernible negative side effects. Myostatin is the protein that helps mammals regulate muscle building, acting as a signal for muscles to stop consuming resources and stop growing. Blocking myostatin leads to enhanced muscle strength and continuous muscle growth," according to SingularityHub.com.

Olympic 1,500-meter gold medalist stripped of Gold medal because of doping

Bahraini middle-distance runner Rashid Ramzi is one Beijing Olympic gold medal lighter today.

The Moroccan-born Ramzi was stripped of his gold medal because he tested positive in April in retroactive tests for CERA, an advanced version of the blood-boosting drug EPO.

According to the AP Ramzi is one of five Beijing Olympic athletes who was found to have been doping in Beijing.

"The athletes' samples were collected and tested at the Beijing Games in August 2008. They tested negative at the time, but the IOC reanalyzed the samples this year when a fully validated test for CERA became available.

Get caught doping in Austria and face up to 10-years in prison

A new doping law now before the Austria Parliament could mean up to a 10-year jail term for athletes caught doping.

The nation’s sports and justice ministers announced earlier this week that the use of performance enhancing drugs will be a criminal offense in Austria... if the pending legislation is signed into law.

Rogue laboratories and doctors currently threaten anti-doping efforts according to ASADA

So what do you think is the number one threat when it comes to stopping and catching dopers in sports according to United States Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis T. Tygart?

You'd think the answer to that question might be the athletes themselves.

You know, following the basic rule of supply and demand.

If there were no demand by athletes willing to cheat using performance enhancing drugs, the problem would immediate sort itself out. In other words, no demand no more doping supply.

But according to Tygart the biggest threat to anti-doping efforts is not on the demand side of the equation, but instead on the supply side.

Notorious Finman Fins sell on eBay in charity action to benefit ALS

So how much do you think a pair of gently used scuba fins would sell for on eBay?

$10.

$20.

or perhaps even more?

What if those fins belonged to the notorious Finman who may or may not have used them to cheat at last year's Ironman Florida race.

If you guessed $90.00---you'd be correct.

That's what the The Original TYR "Finman" Fins sold for as part of a charity auction for ALS put on by professional triathlete Leanda Cave.

Finman's fins up for eBay auction to benefit Blazeman ALS foundation

They say that every cloud has a silver lining.

But you already know that well worn cliche.

But in the strange, troubling and now told story of Finman, who recently identified himself, this cloud's silver lining has two names.

And those names are life guard Tim Johnson and pro triathlete Leanda Cave.

You see Tim Johnson is the guy who confiscated the fins from Frank Cardia (aka Finman) at last year's Ironman Florida.

And Leanda Cave, as it happens, is helping to organize an eBay auction to help raise money for the ALS Blazeman Foundation.

Can you see where this is going?