Cycling

Cycling

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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 

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  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 ... 

• Contador, UCI settle request for $3M fine

  Alberto Contador and the International Cycling Union have reached an undisclosed financial agreement after the governing body tried to impose a €2. 

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  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 ... 

• Russian team pledges to fight UCI over 2013 status

  Russian cycling team Katusha is "ready to fight" the International Cycling Union in court to regain its top-tier status for 2013. Katusha says in a ... 

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  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 ... 

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  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 ... 

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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 ... 

• Spanish cycling federation elects new president

  The Spanish cycling federation has elected as president the man who supplied Alberto Contador with the beef that the cyclist said caused him to be ... 

• 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 ... 

• Italian Paralympic cyclist's case heads to CAS

  The case of cyclist Fabrizio Macchi, who was cleared of doping after being excluded from the Italian team at the London Paralympics, is headed to the ... 

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  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 ... 

• Spanish town Ponferrada to host 2014 Road worlds

  The International Cycling Union says Ponferrada will host the 2014 Road World Championships after the Spanish town met a 30-day deadline to meet ... 

• UCI says 2014 road worlds will go ahead in Spain

  The 2014 Road Cycling World Championships will go ahead in Ponferrada after Spanish organizers assured the sport's governing body they have the money ... 

• 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 ... 

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  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 ... 

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  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.