Spain Olympic Team

Spain Olympic Team

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  IOC begins 4-day inspection of Madrid's 2020 plans

  Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told IOC inspectors Monday that much of the infrastructure needed for Madrid's 2020 Olympic bid is already built, ... 

• Spanish government approves new anti-doping law

  Spain's government on Friday approved tougher anti-doping laws to come into line with World Anti-Doping Agency standards and bolster Madrid's bid for ... 

• Hamilton says he paid $40,000 a year for doping

  Disgraced former U.S. cyclist Tyler Hamilton told a Spanish court Tuesday he paid tens of thousands of euros (dollars) a year to the doctor at the ... 

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  Lance Armstrong stripped of Olympic bronze medal

  On the day he went public with an admission of doping after years of denials, Olympic officials disclosed one more embarrassment for Lance Armstrong: ... 

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  Column: Only 1 athlete of the year in 2012, Messi

  'Tis the season for making merry and for choosing our top sports men and women of the year, two distinctly separate annual rituals that in fact ... 

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  Doping, ethics cases top agenda for IOC board

  Four months after the highs of the London Olympics, the IOC is turning to less uplifting matters: drug-tainted medals from past games, ethics ... 

• IOC ready to take away Armstrong's Olympic bronze

  His seven Tour de France titles erased from cycling's record books, Lance Armstrong still holds claim to one piece of sports silverware: an Olympic ... 

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  Ben Ainslie retires from Olympic sailing

  Four-time gold medalist Ben Ainslie of Britain says he is retiring from Olympic sailing in order to try and end his nation's long drought in the ...