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Russian cycling team Katusha wins appeal at CAS
Russian cycling team Katusha won its appeal against the International Cycling Union's decision to deny it top-tier status this season for "ethical" ...
French anti-doping agency fuels rift with UCI
The French anti-doping agency is refusing to test riders at the Paris-Nice race next month, creating another rift between the International Cycling ...
Rogge backs McQuaid to lead cycling in WADA spat
IOC President Jacques Rogge has backed Pat McQuaid to lead the International Cycling Union in its ongoing dispute with the World Anti-Doping Agency.
WADA urges football to conduct more EPO tests
The World Anti-Doping Agency urged football Tuesday to conduct more blood doping tests and intelligence operations to unmask cheating players.
WADA: Cloud over Spanish sport until stars named
A "monumental cloud" will hang over Spanish sport until all the athletes involved in the Operation Puerto case are identified, according to the head ...
IOC set to cut 1 sport from program of 2020 Games
IOC leaders are meeting this week to decide which sport to drop from the Olympic program and how to deal with the fallout from the Lance Armstrong ...
Katusha to get verdict on UCI license next week
Russian team Katusha is presenting an appeal to sport's highest court after the International Cycling Union refused to grant top-tier status in 2013.
Column: Football must not make cycling's mistakes
Football, like cycling after the disaster that was Lance Armstrong, will be half dead as a sport if it reaches the point where spectators commonly ...
Cycling seeks 6 new events at 2016 Rio Olympics
The International Cycling Union wants the IOC to add six medal events to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics program, including restoring track points ...
Puerto defendant Saiz let cyclists see Fuentes
A former cycling team director told a Spanish court Friday that he had allowed four-time Spanish Vuelta winner Roberto Heras and other riders to ...
Danish cyclist Rasmussen admits to doping
In the latest doping scandal to hit the sport of cycling since Lance Armstrong's confession earlier this month, Danish rider Michael Rasmussen ...
USADA chief: UCI obstructed Lance Armstrong probe
The International Cycling Union did all it could to stall its doping investigation into Lance Armstrong, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency chief executive ...
Frank Schleck given 1-year doping sentence
Cyclist Frank Schleck was suspended for a year on Wednesday and will miss the Tour de France for using a banned substance on last year's Tour.
Armstrong: Truth & reconciliation is 'only way'
Lance Armstrong believes a truth and reconciliation program is the "only way" to deal with cycling's doping crisis and the sport's governing body ...
CAS sets dates for Katusha, Macchi appeal cases
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has set appeal dates in the cycling cases of Russian team Kathusha and Italian Paralympics medalist Fabrizio Macchi
WADA calls UCI 'deceitful' over doping probe
The World Anti-Doping Agency branded the UCI "deceitful" and "arrogant" on Tuesday after cycling's governing body shut down its own independent ...
Fuentes says not only cyclists used his doping
The doctor at the center of Spain's long-awaited Operation Puerto trial testified Tuesday that athletes from sports other than just cycling used his ...
Dutch king-in-waiting stepping down from IOC
Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander is quitting the IOC as he prepares to become king. "The Prince has asked the president of the IOC to relieve him ...
UCI disbands panel looking into Armstrong links
Cycling's governing body disbanded an independent panel put together to review any involvement it had in the Lance Armstrong scandal, saying it will ...
After 7 years, trial starts in Puerto doping case
The first day of Spain's long-awaited Operation Puerto trial ended without any new revelations about doping in cycling on Monday, as the presiding ...
Bruyneel won't appear at Belgian doping hearing
Lance Armstrong's former team leader, Johan Bruyneel, will not appear at a hearing Tuesday to discuss his role in the doping scandal, a Belgian ...
Cycling agrees to amnesty for doping confessions
Cyclists will be offered a chance to confess to past doping offenses without fear of retribution in an attempt to uncover the full scale of the Lance ...
Wiggins convinced Armstrong doped in 2009
Bradley Wiggins is convinced Lance Armstrong doped when the American returned to cycling in 2009, claiming he was robbed of being feted on the podium ...
7 years later, Puerto doping case comes to trial
Just days after Lance Armstrong's doping admission, cycling is set for more damaging revelations when the long-delayed Operation Puerto case finally ...
WADA disputes Verbruggen claim on doping
The World Anti-Doping Agency disputes a claim by former cycling federation leader Hein Verbruggen that discussing suspicious doping samples with ...