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Tour de France Lanterne Rouge (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 least he 'fessed up after being...
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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?
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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.
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SI.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
ROME - Italian cyclist Leonardo Piepoli, who tested positive at last year's Tour de France, says he engaged in doping in a `moment of weakness.'Piepoli, who was caught using an advanced version of the blood-booster EPO, also appealed to other riders not to dope.It was `a moment of weakness, craziness, irresponsibility,' he said in an interview published Wednesday in Gazzetta dello Sport.Piepoli...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 14/12/2008
... Cougars.Rochestie finished with 11 points and Aron Baynes added nine for the Cougars (7-3).Danny Piepoli led Montana State (4-4) with 14 points off the bench.The Cougars were coming off consecutive losses to No. 22 Baylor and No. 4 Gonzaga, both at home. It was the first time WSU had lost back-to-back non-conference games since the 2004-05 season when the Cougars lost to Oklahoma State and...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 14/12/2008
... Cougars.Rochestie finished with 11 points and Aron Baynes added nine for the Cougars (7-3).Danny Piepoli led Montana State (4-4) with 14 points off the bench.The Cougars were coming off consecutive losses to No. 22 Baylor and No. 4 Gonzaga, both at home. It was the first time WSU had lost back-to-back non-conference games since the 2004-05 season when the Cougars lost to Oklahoma State and...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 14/12/2008
... Cougars.Rochestie finished with 11 points and Aron Baynes added nine for the Cougars (7-3).Danny Piepoli led Montana State (4-4) with 14 points off the bench.The Cougars were coming off consecutive losses to No. 22 Baylor and No. 4 Gonzaga, both at home. It was the first time WSU had lost back-to-back non-conference games since the 2004-05 season when the Cougars lost to Oklahoma State and...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... Stefan Schumacher, Austrian climber Bernhard Kohl and Italian climbers Riccardo Ricco and Leonardo Piepoli.Kohl broke down in a tearful confession, blaming an intense pressure to compete, while Ricco testified before the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI).Dmitriy Fofonov of Kazakhstan also tested positive for a banned stimulant on the final day of the Tour.Although samples from this year's...
