The Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Wednesday confirmed that cyclist Davide Rebellin was under investigation for doping due to a positive test returned at last year’s Olympics. The 37-year-old, who earlier this month won the prestigious Fleche Wallonne, tested for […]

Ivan Basso has won his first race since returning from a two-year doping suspension on Saturday, winning the Tour of Trentino. The 31-year-old’s compatriot Danilo Di Luca won the fourth and final stage, a 214.2 kilometres ride, with Basso finishing […]

Belgian star Tom Boonen joined an elite club of three-time Paris-Roubaix winners by surviving one-day cycling’s toughest battle of the fittest here on Sunday. In a race marked by a dramatic finale in which three big favourites hit the cobblestones […]

Russian Yuri Trofimov team won the second stage of the Tour of the Basque Country, launching an attack with two kilometres to go to beat Estonia’s Rein Taaramae on Tuesday. Spain’s Luis Leon Sanchez remained the overall leader of the […]

Spain’s Luis Leon Sanchez, who won Paris-Nice last month, edged out compatriot and Olympic road race champion Samuel Sanchez on the line in a sprint finish to take the first stage of the Tour of the Basque Country in northern […]

A report has been compiled on the behaviour of American cycling legend Lance Armstrong during a recent out of competition drug test, the French Anti-doping Agency (AFLD) announced on Monday. AFLD president Pierre Bordry revealed that he had sent the […]

The public prosecutor’s office here on Friday announced five new arrests in the anti-doping case that has rocked Austrian sport over the last few weeks. Five unnamed people were arrrested in the provinces of Vienna, Lower and Upper Austria and […]

American cycling legend Lance Armstrong suffered a broken collarbone during an event in Spain on Monday, an injury that threatens to disrupt his bid to win a record eighth Tour de France title this summer. The 37-year-old fell along with […]

World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey on Tuesday praised Lance Armstrong’s comeback and the “phenomenal” interest the US cyclist generated for cycling and the campaign against cancer. Fahey, who was operated on for lung cancer in 2001, applauded Armstrong’s own […]

Lance Armstrong’s much-hyped comeback continues on Saturday when the seven-time Tour de France champion tackles the Tour of California. “Now I’m fresh. I feel as good now at age 37 as I did at age 27,” Armstrong said Thursday at […]