BOBBY JULICH RUMORS & GOSSIP
Alex Dowsett leaves Team Sky for Movistar
British time trial champion Alex Dowsett has become the latest member to leave Team Sky.
He has joined the Spanish team Movistar in a move that follows the departures of sporting director Steven De Jongh and race coach Bobby Julich. Both admitted they had taken performance-enhancing drugs in fallout from the Lance Armstrong scandal. Senior sports director Sean Yates retired from...
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October 30, 2012
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Julich leaves Team Sky because of doping past
Team Sky says American coach Bobby Julich has left the cycling team after admitting to doping when he was a rider.
The British team asked staff and riders last week to confirm they had no past links to doping following the Lance Armstrong scandal.
Sky says Julich has ''disclosed having taken a banned substance in his past as a professional rider in the late 1990s.'...
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October 25, 2012
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IOC formally strips Hamilton of Athens gold
The IOC has formally stripped American cyclist Tyler Hamilton of his gold from the 2004 Athens Olympics and reassigned the medals after his admission of doping.
IOC spokesman Mark Adams says the executive board notified Hamilton on Friday that he has been disqualified from his victory in the road race time trial.
His gold medal will now go to Russian rider Viatcheslav Ekimov. American...
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August 10, 2012
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