For the second year running, cycling is fourth on the doping league table, with 21 positive tests announced in road, track and mountain biking in 2015.
While the number remains quite high, athletics (62 positive tests), weightlifting (55) and baseball (30) are ahead of cycling in the list, with football (20) only one place behind in fifth.
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French cyclist given 10-month suspended prison sentence for dopingMarion Sicot said doping formed "an integral part" of cycling
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French cyclist faces suspended prison sentence and €5,000 fine in doping trial
Marion Sicot, who admitted to taking EPO in 2019, is currently on trial in France
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Steroids found in pro cyclist’s anti-doping test sampleAntwan Tolhoek has been provisionally suspended by the UCI while proceedings are ongoing
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Jonas Vingegaard reveals he missed an anti-doping test'It's not great to have a missed test hanging over you,' says Tour de France champion
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Jumbo-Visma rider Michel Hessmann suspended after positive anti-doping testThe 22-year-old's out-of-competition sample detected the presence of diuretics
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Former British Cycling doctor Richard Freeman given four-year doping banFreeman chose not to defend himself before the anti-doping panel
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'We are not cheaters' says Belgian rider Shari Bossuyt after anti-doping positiveThe Canyon-SRAM rider tested positive for Letrozole in an anti-doping control in March
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"Failing that drug test was the best thing that had ever happened to me"Abuse victim and disgraced cycling champion Geneviève Jeanson finds solace in return to bike racing
