Paper would seek to recoup settlement paid in 2006 plus pursue rider for fraudThe repercussions of USADA’s thousand page file on doping charges against Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Service team continue to take effect, with the Sunday Times [...]
Australian stands down from current roles with GreenEdge and Cycling AustraliaFormer Australian professional Matt White has admitted using banned drugs during his racing career and has stood down from his current positions in the sport while an enquiry is carried [...]
Second general classification victory for German Omega Pharma Quick Step riderBritish rider Steve Cummings ended a frustrating, injury afflicted season in the perfect fashion when he won the final stage of the Tour of Beijing. The BMC Racing Team was [...]
Hopes to return at top level in 2014Steve Bauer’s Spidertech C10 squad has been working towards becoming the first Canadian team in the Tour de France, but its path to that goal has been jarred by today’s news that it [...]
Former US Postal Service team manager removed from top role over doping investigationConfirming an earlier story suggesting a split had occured, the RadioShack Nissan team has announced that Johan Bruyneel will no longer form any part of the management of [...]
Belgian said to have been fired two days after USADA dossier is publishedAs a consequence of his serious implication in the doping problems at the US Postal Service, Discovery Channel and Astana cycling teams, it appears that Johan Bruyneel has [...]
No reassignment of Lance Armstrong’s stripped victories, says Christian PrudhommeTour de France director general Christian Prudhomme would like to see the Tour de France roll of honour left blank between the years 1999 and 2005, according to l’Equipe. Those seven [...]
“It was under Verbruggen's presidency that it was at its worst, yet there were all these denials from the UCI”Following on from this week’s publishing of USADA’s explosive files on Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Service team, which revealed [...]
Company paid a total of $12 million to US Postal Service rider in relation to Tour victoriesAs the dust continues to settle after the upheaval caused by the USADA report into Lance Armstrong’s doping, a Texan insurance company which paid [...]
21-year-old Austrian blasts past Alessandro Petacchi; overall classification unchangedMarco Haller (Katusha) burst ahead in the final hundred metres of the fourth stage of the 2012 Tour of Beijing between Yanqing and Chang Ping to take his first ever professional victory. [...]
‘I do think what Lance has done is completely unacceptable’ Alex Dowsett has clarified his comments expressed in an earlier BBC report, suggesting that the remarks were taken out of context. In that initial exchange the Team Sky rider referred [...]
Sky’s Alex Dowsett says Armstrong is a 'legend of the sport'Former pro and current Team Sky directeur sportif Sean Yates has insisted that he saw nothing at all that was suspicious during his time working alongside Lance Armstrong, either as [...]
Omega Pharma Quick Step puts rider on non-active status after USADA testimonyFollowing yesterday’s release of documents by USADA which included an admission by Levi Leipheimer that he used banned products for much of his career, his former Rabobank team and [...]
Spring road ambitions mean that double World champion will not seek a third title in LouisvilleThis winter’s cyclocross World championships, to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, between February 2nd and 3rd, will be without one of the sport’s most charismatic [...]
Boasson Hagen attack caught in the final metres; Tony Martin holds on to overall leadFrancesco Gavazzi (Astana) won the Queen stage of the 2012 Tour of Beijing, between Mentougou and Badaling Great Wall as he outsprinted a highly select group [...]
Details and rider testimonies available in USADA’s reasoned decision In the wake of today’s synopsis of the evidence issued by the US Anti Doping Agency plus statements by several riders admitting doping and saying that they testified in the US [...]
Governing body “will endeavour to provide a timely response” to thousand-page dossierHaving expressed frustration at perceived delays in the production of a “reasoned decision” into its sanctioning of Lance Armstrong - and five others - in the “USPS Conspiracy, the [...]
American hopes that next generation of riders won’t be faced with the sam choicesLevi Leipheimer (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) is one of four former teammates of Lance Armstrong, named in the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) “reasoned decision” into its stripping [...]
