The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has brought formal doping charges against US cyclist Lance Armstrong and he has been immediately banned from competition in triathlons as a result, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Cycling's Team Sky could suffer in the short term from losing staff because of its anti-doping stance but that it is a price worth paying, team head Dave Brailsford said on Tuesday.
Team Sky sports director Sean Yates is retiring from cycling but there is no link between his decision and the team's zero-tolerance anti-doping charter, the British outfit said on Sunday.
Three-times Tour de France winner Greg LeMond has called on International Cycling Union (UCI) President Pat McQuaid to quit in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.
The Lance Armstrong doping scandal reaches a decisive day on Monday when cycling's governing body announces whether it has ratified the US Anti-Doping Agency's sanctions but whatever happens the affair is set to run and run.
Cycling should try to put the Lance Armstrong doping case behind it, Spain's double Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, who returned from a two-year doping ban in August, said on Saturday.
Members of the British cycling team Sky will be sacked unless they sign a document saying they have never doped, the team said.
Lance Armstrong paid for a motorcyclist to deliver the banned bloodbooster EPO to him during the 1999 Tour de France, former teammate Tyler Hamilton said in a BBC radio documentary broadcast on Monday.
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong had ruled his team with an iron grip, according to his own biographers, who exposes the lies, doping and bullying behind the sport in a new book.
Australian Matt White has stepped down as Orica-GreenEDGE sports director on Saturday after admitting to doping while riding with Lance Armstrong's US Postal cycling team.
Lawyers for retired cycling champ Lance Armstrong on Tuesday refiled a lawsuit in a bid to stop the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) from proceeding with a case charging him with using drugs during the years he won the Tour de France.
A federal judge swiftly dismissed a lawsuit on Monday that retired cycling champ Lance Armstrong had filed in a bid to stop the US Anti-Doping Agency from proceeding with a case charging him with using drugs during the years he won the Tour de France.
While the yellow jersey positions hardly moved, Briton Bradley Wiggins being content with staying out of trouble to retain his second place - seven seconds behind.
Tyler Hamilton, who was allowed to keep his Athens Olympics gold medal despite failing a doping test, has finally confessed to cheating and accused other top cyclists, including Lance Armstrong, of doing the same.
Lance Armstrong is confident the ongoing federal investigation into alleged doping will go his way, the seven-times Tour de France champion said on Thursday. The American rider has hired criminal defence attorney Brian Daly, a former US federal prosecutor, following allegations made by fellow countryman and ex-team mate Floyd Landis.
Tour de France winners since the event was first staged in 1903.
Disgraced Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has called on cycling authorities to legalise doping because he believes testers will always struggle to uncover the cheats.
Lance Armstrong is not losing any sleep over a US federal investigation into allegations of doping in his team, the seven-times Tour de France champion said on Saturday ahead of his final international race.
Lance Armstrong fired back at former team mate Floyd Landis, who has publicly accused him of using performance enhancing drugs, following reports he is now working with law enforcement agencies. Armstrong's lawyers issued a statement on the cyclist's team's website countering Landis' claims that Armstrong cheated during his seven Tour de France wins.
Chinese rider Li Fuyu of Lance Armstrong's RadioShack team has been provisionally suspended for failing a doping test, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Thursday.
Lance Armstrong's lawyer has labeled the probe against the seven-times Tour de France winner "un-American" and a waste of money following fresh claims against the cyclist in the US media.
Disgraced former Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong says he will testify with "100 percent transparency and honesty" at any independent inquiry into doping in cycling but wants assurances he will be treated fairly.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has announced that he is making his final appearance in the Tour next month. The 38-year-old American, two years into a second comeback, revealed the news through his Twitter website just days before he begins his campaign for an unprecedented eighth victory in the gruelling event.
Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has dismissed claims by former team-mate Floyd Landis that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
American cyclist Kirk O'Bee, a former team-mate of Lance Armstrong, received a lifetime ban and had his competitive results since 2005 erased after a second doping offence, the US Anti-Doping Agency said on Wednesday.
Lance Armstrong and his team RadioShack will face disciplinary proceedings for breaching riders' clothing regulations during the Tour de France, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said in a statement on Monday.
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, who cheated his way to seven Tour de France victories from 1999-2005, claims it would have been impossible to win the world's greatest race without doping.
Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong was recovering from surgery on Wednesday after having a stainless steel plate and 12 screws inserted to stabilise his fractured right collarbone. The 37-year-old American broke his collarbone in four places during the first stage of Spain's Vuelta Castilla y Leon on Monday and returned to the United States to have surgery in Austin, Texas.
Three-time holder of the green jersey sprinters' classification at Tour de France, Robbie McEwen and Elia Vivani, who represent RadioShack of the USA are among the cyclists who will participate in a two-stage international Class I cycling race to be held in Nashik and Mumbai next month.
Lance Armstrong drew the curtain down on an amazing career in top-class international cycling on Sunday as a hero to his devoted followers but much less so to the sceptics.
Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong fractured his right collarbone in a race in Spain on Monday, casting doubt on his participation in May's Giro d'Italia. The American announced via his twitter feed that he would be having surgery "in a couple of days" after sustaining the injury during the first stage of Spain's Vuelta Castilla y Leon.
Once again, Alberto Contador is the Tour de France favourite and, once again, Lance Armstrong stands in his way. Although Luxembourg's Andy Schleck seems to be his main challenger, Armstrong will lead a very strong RadioShack team that could, if they do not help their man to win the Tour, cause havoc in the three-week race and deny Contador a third title.
Seven-times winner Lance Armstrong will make a Tour de France comeback next year, his spokesman told Reuters on Monday. The 37-year-old rider announced in September he was coming out of retirement for the 2009 season.
The chances of seven-times winner Lance Armstrong riding in next year's Tour de France are 50-50, his Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel said on Wednesday. Tour de France organisers also appeared fairly indifferent over the prospect of Armstrong opting out of the race as they presented next year's route.
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Lance Armstrong will retire for good after the 2011 season and will do everything in his power to win an eighth Tour de France title in the next two years, the American said on Thursday. The 38-year-old American, who returned to cycling in January after three and a half years in retirement, has set up his new Radioshack team and taken most of his former Astana team-mates with him, except great rival and Tour champion Alberto Contador.
Lance Armstrong violated anti-doping rules during a random test in Southern France and could face disciplinary action, the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) said on Thursday. The seven-times Tour de France champion "did not respect the obligation to stay under (the) direct and permanent observation" of the tester, the AFLD said in a statement.
Lance Armstrong has pleaded guilty to careless driving for side-swiping two parked cars in the Colorado ski resort of Aspen late last year in an incident for which his girlfriend initially took the blame, authorities said on Wednesday.
Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong was full of praise for his new Astana team mate Alberto Contador on Thursday.
A group of 12 elite sports stars including Muhammad Ali, Andre Agassi and Lance Armstrong on Wednesday launched a charitable organization aimed at helping athletes do philanthropic work.
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