The Cycling World Waits...

...for the results of Roberto Heras's B-sample testing for EPO, which were supposed to have been released today - but there has been some sort of technical problem and they have to repeat the test, so no results until Friday. Some of the Spanish articles (that broke the news sooner than anything in English) seem to say that Heras's side is calling for his testing to be stopped because the tests are invalid.

This whole issue around Heras is a key one for cycling, because he's such a big name - some have suggested it's a no-win situation (ie. either cycling will lose further respect and sponsorship if he's positive, or if the B-sample is negative it shows that the tests aren't fully accurate and it sets back the anti-doping efforts). A good summary was in the New York Times today (wow, non-Lance-Armstrong-related cycling news in a major North American paper!)

I guess the cycling world will have to wait some more ...