Teun Mulder of the Netherlands upset French hopes of a first gold at the world track championships Friday when he blitzed his way in record time to victory in the men’s kilometre. French duo Michael D’Almeida and Francois Pervis won […]

Australia’s women’s pursuit team maintained the squad’s impressive gold medal momentum with victory in the 3km event at the world track cycling championships Thursday. Defending champions Britain finished second to take the silver, losing their world record in the process, […]

Malaysian sprint specialist Josiah Ng was disqualified from the men’s keirin at the world track cycling championships Thursday for obstructing Britain’s Chris Hoy. Ng was ruled to have obstructed former world champion Hoy, who crashed to the boards seconds after […]

Olympic silver medalist Alex Rasmussen handed Denmark their first gold of the world track cycling championships Thursday when he won the men’s scratch race. Rasmussen finished the 15km, 60-lap race ahead of Colombia’s Juan Esteban Arango, with Japan’s Kazuhiro Mori […]

Tough anti-doping measures, exciting new teams and a growing support base of amateur riders are helping cycling shed its drug-spoiled image and enter a more promising era. The governing body’s doping crackdown has dramatically slowed the welter of damaging drug […]

Cycling superstar Lance Armstrong pledged 250,000 US dollars for victims of the Haiti earthquake on Thursday and urged the public to come forward with further donations. Armstrong, visiting Australia for next week’s Tour Down Under, said the 7.0 magnitude earthquake, […]

Sir Chris Hoy won his third gold at the Track World Cup here on Sunday as Great Britain ended the meeting with yet more medals. Four-time Olympic champion Hoy, who at this event was making his international return from injury, […]

Sir Chris Hoy won the men’s sprint in a race where Great Britain monopolised the podium at the Track World Cup here on Saturday. Four-time Olympic champion Hoy, who claimed one of Britain’s four victories on Friday’s opening day by […]

The International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday reopened a war of words with the French anti-doping agency AFLD in blasting an AFLD report which suggested the Union had favoured the Astana team in the Tour de France. The French earlier […]

The 93rd edition of the Tour of Italy in 2010 will start in the Netherlands on May 8 before embarking on a 3,416.5km journey around the Italian peninsula and ending in Verona on May 30. That was the course unveiled […]