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I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (5/6)

October 20, 201914 Mins Read

Part Five: The discourses surrounding banned performance-enhancing techniques perpetuate gendered and raced narratives of natural difference. Biological difference is predicated…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (4/6)

October 4, 201915 Mins Read

Part Four: “Natural” is Discourse. What is coded as a “natural” body is not a natural inevitability at all, but discursively…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (3/6)

September 7, 201914 Mins Read

Part Three: Case Study. The body, with all its gendered and racialized associations, became the concept through which cycling as…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (2/6)

August 30, 20193 Mins Read

Part Two: Background. The history of drug testing in sports is specifically a history of regulating physical bodies.

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (1/6)

August 23, 20196 Mins Read

Part One: Introduction. Modern illicit performance-enhancing techniques serve to reify the idea of a “natural” body.

2026 Tour de France Stage 20 | Highlights

July 25, 20262 Mins Read

The Queen Stage delivered 5,450 meters of elevation. Richard Carapaz locked down the polka-dot jersey and soloed to his tenth career Grand Tour stage win after Sepp Kuss crashed twice on the Sarenne descent. Further back, a victorious Tadej Pogačar played domestique to pace Isaac del Toro to the white jersey and the final spot on the Paris podium.

Striking the Sun