Italian cyclist Leonardo Piepoli said he had "denied everything" following his doping hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Thursday. Piepoli was heard just a day after his former Saunier-Duval team-mate Ricardo Ricco, who admitted to using EPO. Ricco [...]
Disgraced Italian cyclist Ricardo Ricco was on Thursday suspended by the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) anti-doping tribunal after admitting to using the banned blood-booster EPO. Ricco has been kicked off the Tour de France, and subsequently sacked by his Saunier-Duval [...]
Japanese Olympic cyclist Tomohiro Nagatsuka plans to wear Speedo's record-breaking LZR Racer swimwear beneath his track racing suit in his quest for a medal at the Beijing Games. Knee-length LZR shorts helped him slash his personal 250-metre record by about [...]
Real Madrid's Portuguese defender Pepe said Thursday that he has been inspired by reading seven-time tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's best-selling book on his struggles with cancer. "My wife gave me Lance Armstrong's biography, which tells what he went [...]
Today Team Manager Johan Bruyneel announced that nine riders have re-signed for the 2009 season. Assan Bazayev, Chris Horner, Maxim Iglinskiy, Andreas Klöden, Steve Morabito, Dmitriy Muravyev, Daniel Navarro, Gregory Rast and Michael Schär. Those rider will join the team's [...]
Spain's Carlos Sastre received a hero's welcome Wednesday when he returned to his hometown of El Barraco after becoming the third Spaniard in a row to win the Tour de France over the weekend. Hundreds of ecstatic supporters cheered when [...]
Edwige Pitel, who was not selected for France in their Olympic Games cycling team, has had her protest at the decision rejected by a court here on Wednesday. A judge said there was no serious doubt about the legality of [...]
Italian cyclist Ricardo Ricco admitted to using banned blood booster EPO when interviewed by the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Wednesday about his positive dope test on the Tour de France. Ricco, who had won two stages, was kicked off [...]
World champion cyclist Marta Bastianelli is to face an Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) hearing on August 5 after failing a dope test this month. The 21-year-old has been kicked off the Italian Olympic team but protested her innocence, claiming she [...]
Team Quick Step announced that rider Wilfried Cretskens will be leaving for Silence-Lotto after six years with the team. “The decision came around in these last days," explains Cretskens. "It was a painful decision. Quick Step is like a family [...]
Injured Australian cycling star Cadel Evans has pulled out of the time trial event at the Beijing Olympics, Cycling Australia said on Wednesday. The national federation added Evans slipped on a wet floor on Sunday night, in the aftermath of [...]
Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans pulled out of the one day criterium held in Flanders on Tuesday with a reported injured knee. But mystery surrounded the origin of the injury. According to organiser Denis Bolle the Australian cyclist sustained [...]
Denmark's cross-country mountain bike champion Peter Riis Andersen, who was to compete in the Beijing Olympics, has failed a drugs test, the Danish sporting federation DIF said on Monday. Andersen, 28, one of 84 Danish athletes selected to take part [...]
World champion road cyclist Marta Bastianelli blamed her local chemist after testing positive for a banned stimulant, as reported by Italian news agency Ansa on Monday. Bastianelli tested positive for the stimulant in a control run by the International Cycling [...]
The International Cycling Union (UCI) has been put under the spotlight by a report which claims the world cycling body was paid to help get track cycling's keirin event on the Olympic programme in 1996. The BBC reported on its [...]
Carlos Sastre's triumph in the Tour de France over the weekend has capped a "magical" year for Spanish sports, Spanish media said Monday just two weeks before the Olympic Games get underway. "Sastre's triumph in the Tour marks the end [...]
Carlos Sastre became the seventh Spaniard to win the Tour de France yellow jersey when he wrapped up overall victory here on Sunday, taking his country's total to 11 wins. Federico Bahamontes, nicknamed the 'Eagle of Toledo' thanks to his [...]
For Australia's Cadel Evans, the Olympic road race in Beijing is already too far on the horizon. For the immediate future, the 31-year-old wants to concentrate on winding down at the one-day criteriums which follow the end of the Tour [...]