Tour de France standings after stage 12:          1. Cadel Evans (AUS/SIL)                     50h23min 05sec      2. Frank Schleck (LUX/CSC)                    at      0:01.      3. Christian Vande Velde (USA/GAR)                    0:38.      4. Bernhard Kohl (AUT/GST)                            0:46.      5. Denis Menchov (RUS/RAB)                            […]

Australian Stuart O’Grady has called for dope cheats to be handed life bans following the latest scandal to hit the Tour de France on Thursday. O’Grady spoke out after Ricardo Ricco, one of Italy’s biggest cycling stars, left the Tour […]

A stash of medical material and a banned substance were among items seized by police from the room of Spanish cyclist Moises Duenas who has been kicked out of the Tour de France after failing a drugs test, a French […]

Australian Baden Cooke became the fifth rider from the Barloworld team to pull out of the Tour de France here Thursday. Cooke got off his bike after just 25km of the race’s 12th stage, according to official race radio. He […]

The Tour de France was rocked by a third positive doping scandal Thursday following the news that Italian Riccardo Ricco tested positive for banned substances. Ricco, who won two climbing stages last week, was taken into custody by French police […]

Italian rider Ricardo Ricco of Saunier Duval has tested positive for blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), the French national anti-doping agency (AFLD) confirmed on Thursday. The 24-year-old Ricco, winner of two mountain stages, provided a urine sample which contained the banned […]

Australian Cadel Evans spent a relaxing first day in the Tour de France yellow jersey on Wednesday as the peloton reeled from a second doping positive control at the race. Kurt-Asle Arvesen of Norway beat Swiss Martin Elmiger and Alessandro […]

Tour de France standings after stage 11:          1. Cadel Evans (AUS/SIL)                     46h42min 13sec      2. Frank Schleck (LUX/CSC)                    at      0:01.      3. Christian Vande Velde (USA/GAR)                    0:38.      4. Bernhard Kohl (AUT/GST)                            0:46.      5. Denis Menchov (RUS/RAB)                            […]

CSC’s Kurt-Asle Arvesen is digesting his maiden stage win on the Tour de France as quickly as he can. After all, he knows he has plenty of work ahead to keep him occupied this week. Arvesen did justice to the […]

World cycling chief Pat McQuaid has called on the Spanish authorities to increase their efforts in the fight against doping after the latest doping affair at the Tour de France. Moises Duenas of the Barloworld team became the second Spaniard […]