Even by cycling’s dirty standards, the sport’s latest scandal seems shocking: A new, joint report by Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper and France’s Télévisions Stade 2 news station claims to have found evidence of rampant use of “mechanical doping” — the use of illegal, hidden motors within the frames of road bikes.
The terms “doping” and “competitive cycling” have long gone together like peanut butter and jelly: Between 1998 and 2012, 44 percent of top 10 finishers in the Tour de France were on illegal performance enhancing drugs.
Performance-enhancing motors may now present the sport’s newest governing challenge. The 20-minute video (which is in French) shows … More
A Utah ski resort can hold onto its status as one of the last in the country to ban snowboarders on its slopes, a federal appeals court decided Tuesday.
The judges dismissed a lawsuit from a group of snowboarders who said Alta Ski Area outside Salt Lake City discriminates by barring them from the resort located largely on public land.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with … More