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 […]

Vladimir Gusev has won the case against his former team Astana in the Court of Arbitration in Sport (CAS) this week. The court ordered the Kazakh team to pay the cyclist’s salary, damages, as well as the costs of 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 […]

After a hearing in Switzerland the UCI has put Team Astana back on the hot seat again, demanding the remaining 6 million euros of sponsorship money for 2009. De Telegraaf reported that if the UCI does not secure the funding […]

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, […]

Spain’s Alejandro Valverde and his Caisse d’Epargne team are the new leaders of the UCI World Rankings after success at the Dauphine Libere stage race in France. Valverde beat Australia’s Cadel Evans (Silence) by 16 seconds and compatriot Alberto Contador […]

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 […]

In his first race since the Giro d’Italia, Britain’s Mark Cavendish (Columbia-High Road) picked up where he left off by winning the sprint finish in today’s 195.4km third stage of the Tour de Suisse. In his wake Cavendish left a […]

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 […]