Swiss rider Michael Albasini of the Columbia team won the fifth stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 202 km ride from Staefa in Switzerland to Serfaus in Austria. Slovenian Tadej Valjavec of the AG2R team retained the race lead, […]

Cycling’s world ruling body announced on Wednesday that five cyclists would face doping charges uniquely on the basis of irregularities found in blood samples from their biological passports. Former world road race champion Igor Astarloa of Spain is among the […]

One-time Olympic gold medallist Tyler Hamilton has accepted an eight-year doping ban, marking the end of a career tarnished by drugs. The US Anti-Doping Agency meted out the penalty on Tuesday, two months after Hamilton admitted taking a product to […]

Up-and-coming Danish cyclist Matti Breschel triumphed in the fourth stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 195km ride from Biasca to here on Tuesday. In a small bunch sprint for the finish, Breschel, of the Saxo Bank team, held off […]

A doping investigation initially targeting two University doctors has now snared four more, albeit on lesser charges, according to German public prosecutor Wolfgang Maier on Monday. Maier on Monday confirmed a report, to appear Tuesday in the Badischer Zeitung newspaper, […]

French cycling team Cofidis unveiled a nine-man Tour de France team Monday which manager Eric Boyer has shaped principally for success in the mountains. Frenchman David Moncoutie, who won the hilly penultimate stage of the Dauphine Libere on Saturday, will […]

Japan will be represented in the Tour de France by Yukiya Arashiro, whose participation in the great stage race was confirmed by his team’s sporting director Dominique Arnould on Monday. Arashiro, who was recruited in the close-season, is among six […]

Former two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon, who is battling cancer, said on Sunday he has no fear of dying. “You either fight or you die,” the 1983 and 1984 Tour champion told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper. “I […]

Spaniard Alejandro Valverde of the Caisse d’Epargne retained his slim 16-second lead over Cadel Evans after the sixth stage of the Dauphine Libere race here on Friday. Valverde, Evans and 2007 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador crossed the finish […]

Former double Tour de France champion Laurent Fignon cannot rule out a link between his advanced cancer and doping, according to a French TV interview to be broadcast on Sunday. The retired winner of the Tour in 1983 and 1984, […]