Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas will partner Britain's triple world champion Lewis Hamilton at dominant Mercedes, winners of the last three drivers and constructors' titles and favourites again this year.
American Floyd Landis sealed his first Tour de France triumph after Sunday's 20th and last stage won by Norway's Thor Hushovd on the Champs-Elysees.
Lance Armstrong says he does not miss competitive cycling and hated the sport in the final few years of his career
The German was joined on the front row of the grid by reigning world champion and closest rival Lewis Hamilton, in a Mercedes.
Disgraced US cyclist Lance Armstrong has reportedly been ordered to answer questions about who knew what and when about his doping, including possibly his former wife and his attorneys.
Mercedes's brilliant pitstop strategy spoiled the game for Max Verstappen in Hungarian Grand Prix, says Rediff's F1 columnist Raja Sen.
The defending champion laboured to a seventh-place finish in the fourth stage won by Dane Brian Vandborg.
Lance Armstrong and Roger Federer were nominated for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award.
The last time Kimi Raikkonen stood on top of a Formula One podium, Lewis Hamilton had just joined Mercedes with one championship to his name and Sebastian Vettel was riding high with Red Bull.
Jean-Marie Leblanc, the Tour de France director, said he backed the report stating that Lance Armstrong took EPO in 1999.
Lance Armstrong has denied taking steroids following a report that he had used the blood-boosting drug EPO in 1999
The last journey of the five jawans martyred in the attack by Pakistan soldiers began in the evening from Poonch town with Army officers laying wreaths on their caskets.
An army jawan was killed and three others injured in a blast triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device attack along LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.
The American cancer survivor narrowly beat England rugby union flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson and Formula One champion Michael Schumacher.
The Italian completed a near-perfect Tour de France for Lance Armstrong's Discovery Channel team when he won the longest stage in Revel.
Young Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde, who beat race leader Armstrong in a sprint finish in Tuesday's mountainous 10th stage, quit the Tour de France suffering with a knee injury.
Indian DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh raised the issue of infiltration attempts by terrorists from Pakistan into Jammu and Kashmir and "unethical act of mutilation of the body of Indian soldiers close to the Line of Control by terrorists infiltrating from Pakistan".
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Lance Armstrong said that cycling looked more scandalous since dope testing was done most in the sport
The controversial South Africa all-rounder has been being called up for the first two of five ODIs against the West Indies.
Disgraced Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong would need "something close to a miracle" to get his lifetime ban from cycling re-examined, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president John Fahey said on Tuesday.
The glittering evening attracted royalty as well as movie stars, entertainers and a worldwide television audience estimated at 320 million.
Lance Armstrong retained the overall leader's yellow jersey when he came home safely in the main pack.
There will be five mountains on Sunday's menu and then the 'beyond category' climb up to the finish in Pla d'Adet
Lance Armstrong faces arguably the toughest test of his final Tour de France in Saturday's 220.5-km 14th stage to Ax-3 Domaines.
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