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Giro stage called off after heavy snow overnight
ReutersPONTE DI LEGNO, Italy (Reuters) - Heavy snow forced Giro d'Italia organisers to call off Friday's mountainous stage 19 from Ponte di Legno to Val Martello. "Due to adverse weather conditions and, in particular, snow on the stage route in its entirety,...Tags: Colombia, Italy, Landforms, Australia, Giro d'Italia
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Cycling-Giro positives do little to help public perception
ReutersBy Alison Wildey LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - For all the recent protestations cycling is moving on from its drug-ridden past, the public remains unconvinced and two positive tests during this month's Giro d'Italia will have done little to convince...Tags: International Cycling Union, Tour de France, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Cycling, Andre Greipel
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Former Giro winner Di Luca tests positive for EPO
Reuters(Reuters) - Former Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Friday. Italian Di Luca, who had a previous...Tags: International Cycling Union, Cycling, Vincenzo Nibali, Sports, Giro d'Italia
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Giro stage called off after heavy snow
ReutersVAL MARTELLO, Italy (Reuters) - Heavy snow forced Giro d'Italia organisers to call off Friday's mountainous stage 19 from Ponte di Legno to Val Martello and the route for the next day's stage was re-designed. Saturday's stage includes far fewer...Tags: Colombia, Italy, Rigoberto Uran, Landforms, Cadel Evans
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Former Giro and Vuelta winner Menchov retires
ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's former Giro d'Italia and Vuelta winner Denis Menchov has announced his retirement from cycling at the age of 35, local media reported on Monday. Menchov, Russia's best stage rider of the past decade, winning the Tour of...Tags: Alberto Contador, Tour de France, Cycling, Sports, Vuelta a España
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Review recommends GreenEdge reinstate banned director
ReutersMELBOURNE (Reuters) - A review of Australia's GreenEdge has recommended the UCI WorldTour cycling team reinstate sacked sports director and confessed doper Matt White. White admitted to doping with the U.S. Postal team and voluntarily stood down from the...Tags: Tour de France, World Anti-Doping Agency, Cycling, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, New Products
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Amgen aims to restock its medicine cabinet
Amgen Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops medicines used in the treatment of cancer, kidney disease, arthritis, bone disease and other serious illnesses. The Thousand Oaks company's top-selling products include arthritis medication Enbrel,...
Tags: Kidney Disease, Arthritis, Ovarian Cancer, Enbrel (drug), Chemical Industry
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Puerto doctor gets jail term, evidence to be destroyed
ReutersMADRID (Reuters) - Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, the central figure in the Operation Puerto probe into a doping ring in cycling, was given a one-year prison sentence for crimes against public health on Tuesday. Fuentes was also barred from practicing...Tags: Olympic Games, Social Sciences, International Cycling Union, Punishment, Arts and Culture
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The red herring of human gene patents
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Louis D. Brandeis Just a few words and little thought separate yet another stronghold of the American economy from ruin....
Tags: Scientific Invention, Biology, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Medical Research
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“Cycling High”: Inside the Lance Armstrong scandal
Channel Guide MagazineCycling High: Doping to Win on National Geographic Channel Sunday, April 21, at 7pm ET goes inside the doping scandal that brought down cyclist Lance Armstrong, looking at the science, eyewitness testimonies, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Report and... -
After many winters of discontent, the best of times for Kostner
LONDON, ONT. -- A decade ago, Carolina Kostner was the ingénue of the World Figure Skating Championships, a 16-year-old Italian who bounded around the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. like a frolicsome fawn as Michelle Kwan won her last of five world...
Tags: Ice Skating, Washington, DC, Italy, Rentals, Human Interest
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Lance lied to Oprah, anti-doping agency tells ‘60 Minutes’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelIn an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong lied or misled, the head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency tells CBS' ”60 Minutes.” Armstrong wasn't leveling when he said he used small amounts of the blood booster EPO, Travis...
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