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McQuaid dismisses LeMond's claim to lead UCI
Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond's claim that he should take over cycling's governing body to lead the sport out of crisis following the ...
Rabobank cycling team renamed Blanco Pro
The Rabobank cycling team is being renamed Blanco Pro Cycling Team next year as it continues to hunt for a new sponsor, Rabobank announced on Thursday
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 ...
European broadcasters invest in top cycling races
The European Broadcasting Union showed its faith in cycling on Wednesday, announcing a third long-term race broadcasting deal since Lance Armstrong ...
Scarponi banned 3 months for seeing Dr. Ferrari
Former Giro d'Italia winner Michele Scarponi has been banned for three months by the Italian Olympic Committee for seeing banned physician Michele ...
IOC strips 4 medals from 2004 Athens Olympics
Eight years after winning Olympic medals in Athens, four track and field athletes from eastern Europe were ordered to hand them back Wednesday because ...
LeMond wants to run UCI after Armstrong scandal
A group of the UCI's fiercest critics called for the president to step aside Monday, and asked three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond to put ...
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 ...
UCI names 3-member panel to probe Armstrong links
An investigation panel examining the International Cycling Union's links to the Lance Armstrong doping case will include British Paralympic great ...
Contador unsure about 2013 Tour invite for team
Spanish rider Alberto Contador has asked Tour de France organizers if his SaxoBank team will be invited to participate in cycling's premier event next ...
IOC chief backs plan for 4-year doping bans
IOC President Jacques Rogge supports proposals to double the length of doping bans to four years as a way of keeping drug cheats out of the Olympics.
UCI riders' panel wants tougher doping penalties
The International Cycling Union says its athletes' commission wants teams and entourages to also be sanctioned if a rider is caught doping. The panel ...
Tennis players shun Spanish doctor
The owner of a leading tennis academy in Spain that trained some of the sport's stars says its players have stopped working with a doctor banned by ...
UCI to create hotline for riders to report doping
The International Cycling Union has pledged to create a confidential hotline for riders to report "issues or concerns relating to doping" in the wake ...
AP Interview: Tennis mulls anti-doping step
Tennis is looking at whether it can adopt measures pioneered by cycling to weed out drug cheats. ITF anti-doping manager Stuart Miller told The ...
WADA chief warns Armstrong case is tip of iceberg
The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency believes the Lance Armstrong case is just part of a wide-ranging doping battle that will never be won.
UCI asks CAS president to help choose inquiry team
The International Cycling Union turned to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Wednesday for help choosing a team to investigate the governing body's ...
UCI opens inquiry into alleged Vinokourov race fix
Olympic road race champion Alexandre Vinokourov is under investigation for allegedly bribing a rival to fix a race, as ongoing fallout from the Lance ...
Cycling sponsor suing UCI over Armstrong saga
Sportswear company Skins is suing cycling's governing body for $2 million, claiming its brand has been damaged by backing the sport as the Lance ...
Report: Vinokourov paid Kolobnev to win 2010 Liege
Emails and details of bank transfers that allegedly demonstrate how Alexandre Vinokourov paid off breakaway companion Alexandr Kolobnev to win the ...
Journalist files criminal complaint against UCI
An Irish journalist has filed a criminal complaint against International Cycling Union leaders Pat McQuaid and Hein Verbruggen, accusing them of ...
UCI urged to pay for probe into Armstrong links
Cycling leaders should pay for the independent investigation into allegations the sport's governing body covered up doping by Lance Armstrong, ...
IOC opens probe into Armstrong's Olympic medal
The IOC formally opened an investigation Thursday that could result in Lance Armstrong being stripped of his Olympic bronze medal. The IOC is looking ...