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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
Wiggins backtracks as he eyes another Tour title
Bradley Wiggins says he wants to defend his Tour de France title after previously indicating his focus in 2013 could be on the Giro d'Italia and the ...
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.
Cavendish latest Brit to be involved in bike crash
Sprint specialist Mark Cavendish has become the latest member of Britain's cycling team to be involved in a bike crash after hitting the back of a car ...
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 ...
Timmy Duggan, Evgueni Petrov join Team Saxo Bank
Cyclists Timmy Duggan and Evgueni Petrov have signed with Denmark-based Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank. The team says Duggan will join for one year and ...
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.
Britain coach set for full recovery after crash
Britain's top cycling coach is expected to make a full recovery after being hospitalized following a bike crash in Manchester. British Cycling says ...
British Cycling coach seriously hurt in accident
British Cycling says head coach Shane Sutton has been hospitalized with bleeding on the brain after being involved in a road cycling accident in ...
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 ...