Gert Steegmans has decided not to sign the addendum to his contract with team Katusha. The additional terms for the contract were to penalize any rider caught doping by making them pay five times their salary in damages to the […]
Belgian cycling star Tom Boonen has escaped the threat of criminal charges from a first positive test for cocaine, in May 2008, despite a second positive test in April, local media claimed Saturday. However the former world champion and winner […]
Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde has appealed against a doping ban imposed by Italian authorities last month, world sport’s top court said on Friday. The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) last month banned Valverde from racing in Italy for two years due […]
Dutch cycling great Steven Rooks became the latest former cyclist to confess to taking EPO in a book released this week. The 48-year-old – second in the 1988 Tour de France when he won the classic Alpe d’Huez stage – […]
Belgian star Tom Boonen seemingly did not ingest cocaine, the substance for which he tested positive six weeks ago for the second time in a year, Belgian media Thursday quoted a panel of independent experts as saying. The panel based […]
Spaniard Ricardo Serrano was suspended by his Fuji Servetto team after the International Cycling Union (UCI), announced Wednesday that it will open a disciplinary investigation based on suspicious fluctuations in the cyclist’s biological passport. “According to information received, the irregularities […]
Italian’s Pietro Caucchioli (Lampre) and Francesco De Bonis (Diquigiovanni) have been suspended by their respective teams. Lampre and Diquigiovanni took action after an announcement earlier in the day by the UCI that they will begin disciplinary procedures on five cyclists […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
Potential drugs cheats at the 2009 Tour de France will face the biggest anti-doping army ever seen at a major sports event next month, UCI chief Pat McQuaid has warned. McQuaid, the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), was […]
The International Cycling Union (UCI) said several riders currently under suspicion of doping will be named publicly next week, and will subsequently face sanctions. UCI chief Pat McQuaid, here Wednesday to announce plans for the fight against doping at next […]
Alejandro Valverde faces a worldwide two-year doping ban if cycling’s world ruling body the UCI acts upon vital evidence, which has still be received from the Italian sporting authorities. Spaniard ace Valverde has been effectively ruled out of this year’s […]
Belgian star Tom Boonen has been given a chance to compete in next month’s Tour de France despite a recent, second positive test for cocaine. Quick Step star Boonen, the winner of major one-day classics and Tour de France stages, […]
Disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl on Wednesday vowed to sue French sport daily L’Equipe after they published an interview with him in which he spoke about doping at the 2008 Tour de France. Kohl, who was stripped of his third-place […]
Spanish cyclist Antonio Colom has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for the banned substance EPO, the International Cycling Union (UCI) revealed on Tuesday. Colom had been scheduled to race for the Katusha team in the Tour de France, which […]
