Tour de France standings after stage 12: 1. Cadel Evans (AUS/SIL) 50h23min 05sec 2. Frank Schleck (LUX/CSC) at 0:01. 3. Christian Vande Velde (USA/GAR) 0:38. 4. Bernhard Kohl (AUT/GST) 0:46. 5. Denis Menchov (RUS/RAB) [...]
Australian Stuart O'Grady has called for dope cheats to be handed life bans following the latest scandal to hit the Tour de France on Thursday.O'Grady spoke out after Ricardo Ricco, one of Italy's biggest cycling stars, left the Tour under [...]
A stash of medical material and a banned substance were among items seized by police from the room of Spanish cyclist Moises Duenas who has been kicked out of the Tour de France after failing a drugs test, a French [...]
Australian Baden Cooke became the fifth rider from the Barloworld team to pull out of the Tour de France here Thursday. Cooke got off his bike after just 25km of the race's 12th stage, according to official race radio. He [...]
The Tour de France was rocked by a third positive doping scandal Thursday following the news that Italian Riccardo Ricco tested positive for banned substances. Ricco, who won two climbing stages last week, was taken into custody by French police [...]
Italian rider Ricardo Ricco of Saunier Duval has tested positive for blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), the French national anti-doping agency (AFLD) confirmed on Thursday.The 24-year-old Ricco, winner of two mountain stages, provided a urine sample which contained the banned subtance [...]
Australian Cadel Evans spent a relaxing first day in the Tour de France yellow jersey on Wednesday as the peloton reeled from a second doping positive control at the race.Kurt-Asle Arvesen of Norway beat Swiss Martin Elmiger and Alessandro Ballan [...]
Tour de France standings after stage 11: 1. Cadel Evans (AUS/SIL) 46h42min 13sec 2. Frank Schleck (LUX/CSC) at 0:01. 3. Christian Vande Velde (USA/GAR) 0:38. 4. Bernhard Kohl (AUT/GST) 0:46. 5. Denis Menchov (RUS/RAB) [...]
CSC's Kurt-Asle Arvesen is digesting his maiden stage win on the Tour de France as quickly as he can. After all, he knows he has plenty of work ahead to keep him occupied this week.Arvesen did justice to the red, [...]
World cycling chief Pat McQuaid has called on the Spanish authorities to increase their efforts in the fight against doping after the latest doping affair at the Tour de France.Moises Duenas of the Barloworld team became the second Spaniard to [...]
Spanish rider Moises Duenas of the Barloworld team has tested positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) during the Tour de France and banned products have been found in his room during a search, his team revealed on Wednesday.The [...]
British-registered Tour de France team Barloworld lost their third rider from the race Wednesday after Italian Paolo Longo crashed out during the 11th stage from Lannemezan to here. According to official race radio Longo sustained a fractured collarbone in the [...]
British-registered Tour de France team Barloworld lost their fourth rider from the race Wednesday after Colombian Felix Cardenas pulled out during the 11th stage with a leg injury.Earlier in the stage Italian Paolo Longo crashed out. According to official race [...]
If team Columbia deliver their 'train' on time again for Britain's Mark Cavendish, sprint rivals Oscar Freire and Robbie McEwen are likely to be left on the Tour de France platform.After 10 stages on this year's race both Freire, of [...]
A Russian-financed cycling team is set to muscle its way into the professional peloton in 2009, with ambitious plans to radically transform the sport in the country.Katoucha, presented here on Tuesday by former champion Andre Tchmil, will aim to make [...]
Cadel Evans spent his first day in the Tour de France yellow jersey being treated like a rock star - although there was at least one vital ingredient missing. "I don't see any screaming girls here!" said the Australian, after [...]
Seventeen of the world's top cycling teams said Tuesday they would not be seeking a Pro Tour license for 2009, according to a statement released here at the Tour de France.The Pro Tour was launched by the International Cycling Union [...]
CSC have promised a repeat of the collective power which virtually eliminated Alejandro Valverde from yellow jersey contention once the Tour de France hits the Alps this weekend.But this time, it is Australian Cadel Evans and Denis Menchov who will [...]