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Welcome to Dopeology, a website about reported instances of doping in European professional road cycling. Make no mistake, this is an enormous subject. That's why our story begins as recently as 1980, while the history of doping in professional cycling actually began over a century earlier.
Dopeology builds a topology of the densely interconnected network of doping, by listing the people, substances, techniques and events involved as recorded by reliable press sources. The purpose of the exercise is simply to organise and present the data in a logical way rather than to make any judgements about what has happened over the years.
The data on Dopeology is divided into just a few categories: People, Teams and Products, combinations of which go together to form doping-related Incidents. Every incident is supported by published sources, all but a handful of which are accessible online.
Recent incidents
Ullrich partial admission
Admission statement10/02/2012Ullrich appeal 2
Appeal against sanction09/02/2012Contador appeal 2
Appeal against sanction06/02/2012Armstrong investigation
Investigation03/02/2012Franke investigation
Investigation12/01/2012
Complete chronological list on the Incidents page
News
04 November 2011: can you help?
Wanted: reliable, published press sources for the following positive tests:
Jos Op't Eyndt after winning the Omloop van West Brabant, 10/06/1984
Marc Sergeant and Ludwig Wijnants after the Scheldeprijs, 30/07/1985
Rudy Mathijs after the Circuit de la Sarthe, c. 04/04/1986
30 October 2011: search facility
Dopeology now has a pretty comprehensive search facility. Two types of search: one for general keywords and the other specifically for incidents.
16 October 2011: a busy first week!
Dopeology is now a week old! Thanks to everyone who offered their support and please keep the feedback coming. I'll be acting on some of your suggestions very soon, starting with the search functionality.
Some nice reactions from the socialblogotwitsphere. Gratifying to get a few nods from names like The Inner Ring, festinagirl and cyclisme-dopage.com (an anti-doping website I admire a lot) as well as the usual mixed blessing from the Clinicians of the CNForum.
— Mike
