4Vote!
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Since the mass exodus of Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel and a host of other talented cyclists from the Astana cycling team, the Kazakh-based squad has become a sort of refuge for riders who have had difficulty in past seasons. It seems as though many established, popular riders are staying far away from last season's most successful stage racing team, leaving management with no other choice but to...
3Vote!
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The former team of disgraced cheaters Riccardo Riccò and Leonardo Piepoli rolls on in 2010, surviving a difficult struggle to try to erase the doping stigma from its name. The former Saunier Duval squad will continue in 2010 thanks to the arrival of the new title sponsor Footon. “It’s important because we’ve been able to continue the team,” team manager Joxean Fernández...
3Vote!
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
In a rare sign of unity within cycling's governance, the International Cycling Union (UCI) has recognised the decisions of the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) in relation to doping tests during the 2008 Tour de France. Manuel Beltrán, Moises Dueñas, Bernhard Kohl, Stefan Schumacher, Leonardo Piepoli and Riccardo Riccò ( pictured, right ) were all caught after testing positive...
3Vote!
Bike Reviews (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
Product Description Scott’s IMP Technology results in the lightest road frame in the world at 790 grams. The Addict became the benchmark in the market, and is known as the bike in the pro tour peloton. Leonardo piepoli’s bike weighs just 5.9 Kg (13lbs), which is by far [...]
3Vote!
Bike Reviews (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
Product Description Scott’s IMP Technology results in the lightest road frame in the world at 790 grams. The Addict became the benchmark in the market, and is known as the bike in the pro tour peloton. Leonardo piepoli’s bike weighs just 5.9 Kg (13lbs), which is by far [...]
3Vote!
USA Today (Free subscription) | 27/01/2009
Italian cyclist Leonardo Piepoli has been banned for two years Monday after testing positive for a banned substance at last year's ...
3Vote!
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 27/01/2009
ROME, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Italian authorities said cyclist Leonardo Piepoli has been banned from the sport for two years after using drugs during last year's Tour de France. The country's anti-doping tribunal said blood samples taken July 4 and 15 established that Piepoli, 37, had been using Mircera, a banned drug that boosts production of red blood cells, during the July 5-27 race, ANSA reported Monday....
3Vote!
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 26/01/2009
ROME (AP) Italian cyclist Leonardo Piepoli has been banned for two years Monday after testing positive for a banned substance at last year's Tour de France. The Italian Olympic Committee's antidoping tribunal said the ban takes effect immediately and ends on Jan. 25, 2011. Read the full story
3Vote!
France24 (Free subscription) | 26/01/2009
Italian rider Leonardo Piepoli has been suspended from competition for two years by his country's anti-doping authorities. Piepoli tested positive for a new generation of erythropoietin during last year's Tour de France.
3Vote!
Tour de France Lanterne Rouge (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
Former 3-stage Lanterne Rouge , Leonardo Piepoli , has expressed his regrets at his "unconscionable" doping at the Tour de France, and calls it "one time in a career full of sacrifices". I suppose that he answered the "WHAT WAS HE THINKING!?!??" questions as well as any of them . He didn't include the part about "I thought they couldn't detect it", though. At...
3Vote!
Tour de France Lanterne Rouge (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
Former Tour de France Lanterne Rouge (3 stages in 2005) and climber-with-something-extra Leonardo Piepoli has publicly confessed to doping with CERA in the 2008 Tour . So the guys at the bottom of the standings are no more resistant to the allure of doping than the guys at the front. Can we move on now?
3Vote!
ABC (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
Italian rider Leonardo Piepoli faces a two-year ban after testing positive for the latest generation erythropoietin (EPO) product CERA, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) said. A CONI statement said Piepoli, 37, had tested positive for Mircera, CERA's commercial name, at this year's Tour de France.
3Vote!
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Hamburg - A positive test by the Italian rider Leonardo Piepoli for CERA, the third generation of the blood booster EPO, at this year's Tour de France has been confirmed by a French laboratory. The internet website cyclingnews said Friday the B sampl...
3Vote!
Chasing wheels (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Stefan Schumacher and Leonardo Piepoli coming up positive has barely registered a raised eyebrow of surprise in the cycling world. Ghoulish Leo had already confessed so it was just a matter of waiting for that box to be ticked while Schumi's time-trial performances at Le Tour proved to be too good to be true. For one a career as a Marty Feldman impersonator beckons. That remake of young Frankenstein...
3Vote!
Swap Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
James Raia writting for Examiner.com has a story up about the two latest cyclist to test positive for doping during the 2008 Tour De France (TDF). This time it was Leonardo Piepoli and Stefan Schumacher, and the doping count for 2008 is now at six (6). It seems CERA was [...]
Videos