Edwige Pitel, who was not selected for France in their Olympic Games cycling team, has had her protest at the decision rejected by a court here on Wednesday. A judge said there was no serious doubt about the legality of […]

Team Quick Step announced that rider Wilfried Cretskens will be leaving for Silence-Lotto after six years with the team. “The decision came around in these last days,” explains Cretskens.  “It was a painful decision. Quick Step is like a family […]

Italian cyclist Ricardo Ricco admitted to using banned blood booster EPO when interviewed by the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Wednesday about his positive dope test on the Tour de France. Ricco, who had won two stages, was kicked off […]

Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans pulled out of the one day criterium held in Flanders on Tuesday with a reported injured knee. But mystery surrounded the origin of the injury. According to organiser Denis Bolle the Australian cyclist sustained […]

World champion road cyclist Marta Bastianelli blamed her local chemist after testing positive for a banned stimulant, as reported by Italian news agency Ansa on Monday. Bastianelli tested positive for the stimulant in a control run by the International Cycling […]

Denmark’s cross-country mountain bike champion Peter Riis Andersen, who was to compete in the Beijing Olympics, has failed a drugs test, the Danish sporting federation DIF said on Monday. Andersen, 28, one of 84 Danish athletes selected to take part […]

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has been put under the spotlight by a report which claims the world cycling body was paid to help get track cycling’s keirin event on the Olympic programme in 1996. The BBC reported on its […]

Carlos Sastre’s triumph in the Tour de France over the weekend has capped a “magical” year for Spanish sports, Spanish media said Monday just two weeks before the Olympic Games get underway. “Sastre’s triumph in the Tour marks the end […]

Increased suspense, a boom in television ratings and happy sponsors left Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme in a buoyant mood two days prior to the end of this year’s race. But with the ever-present threat of cheats lingering, the […]

For Australia’s Cadel Evans, the Olympic road race in Beijing is already too far on the horizon. For the immediate future, the 31-year-old wants to concentrate on winding down at the one-day criteriums which follow the end of the Tour […]