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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 ...
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 ...
Athletes lose medals; Armstrong decision pending
Eight years after winning Olympic medals in Athens, four track and field athletes from eastern Europe were ordered to hand them back Wednesday because ...
Panel to eye links between cycling body, Armstrong
An independent panel will examine possible links between cycling's governing body and the Lance Armstrong doping case. The three-member panel will ...
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 hardware — an Olympic ...
3-member panel to probe UCI, Armstrong links
British judge Phillip Otton will chair the three-member panel investigating the International Cycling Union's links to the Lance Armstrong doping case
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.
Column: Still a lot to be thankful for in sports
The bad stuff is easy. You read about it almost every day; hear it discussed endlessly by the talking heads on radio and television. But if sports is ...
Armstrong's cancer foundation drops his name
Lance Armstrong's cancer fighting charity has formally dropped him from its name and will officially be known as the Livestrong Foundation. The move ...
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 ...
AP Interview: Tennis mulls anti-doping step
Tennis is considering whether to adopt blood-testing measures used by cycling and track to catch drug cheats. "We are looking very, very carefully at ...
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.
Lance Armstrong cuts formal ties to Livestrong
Lance Armstrong has cut formal ties with his cancer-fighting charity to avoid further damage brought by doping charges and being stripped of his seven ...
Former US Postal rider has chance to tell all
Former Lance Armstrong teammate David George will have the opportunity to reveal how and when he took the blood-boosting drug EPO and if he used it ...
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 in choosing a team to investigate the governing ...
Former Armstrong teammate admits doping with EPO
South African cyclist David George, a former teammate of Lance Armstrong, admitted using the blood-boosting drug EPO on Tuesday after failing a doping ...
IOC opens inquiry into Armstrong's Olympic medal
The IOC opened an investigation Thursday into Lance Armstrong's role in a doping scandal that has already wiped out his seven Tour de France titles ...
IOC opens probe into Armstrong's Olympic medal
The IOC formally opened an investigation Thursday that could result in Lance Armstrong losing his Olympic bronze medal for doping The IOC is looking ...
English town to burn Lance Armstrong in effigy
His career is in ruins and now an effigy of Lance Armstrong is about to go up in smoke. The disgraced American cyclist has been chosen as the latest ...
Dallas promoter demands refund from Armstrong
A Dallas promotions company that paid Lance Armstrong more than $7 million in bonuses for winning the Tour de France is demanding he return the money.
UCI: Tour winner list stays blank in Armstrong era
The seven Tour de France titles stripped from Lance Armstrong will not be awarded to any riders, and the American cyclist and his teammates should ...
Julich leaves Team Sky because of doping past
Former American rider Bobby Julich says he used banned drugs during the late 1990s when he finished third in the Tour de France, forcing him Thursday ...
LeMond calls on cycling leaders to resign
Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond has urged the leaders of cycling's governing body to resign in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping ...