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Saunier Duval officially announced on Thursday that they were withdrawing their sponsorship of the cycling team that bears their name because of doping scandals.

Saunier Duval have announced they are pulling out of cycling sponsorship with immediate effect.

ALPE D'HUEZ, France -- Carlos Sastre of Spain won the 17th stage of the Tour de France, taking the overall lead Wednesday from CSC teammate Frank Schleck on the hardest ride up three huge Alpine climbs.

Team sponsor Barloworld will end its association with the Tour de France following the positive doping test of one of their riders.

Frank Schleck heads into the final week with a close lead of seven seconds Photo ©: Roberto Bettini In the most suspenseful Tour de France for years, there are still six riders within a minute heading into ...

Cadel Evans has been poring over cycling's history books as he prepares to put his yellow jersey on the line during three crucial days of climbing at the Tour de France.

DIGNE-LES-BAINS, France : Just a few days ago, the Tour de France was ready to celebrate its long-awaited return to Italy.

The team said in a statement Friday that it felt it had been a "victim" of irresponsible behavior.

After the recent doping scandal that will almost certainly wipe the team's three stage wins from the record books Photo ©: James Huang The doping scandal involving Saunier Duval-Scott's Riccardo Ricco and ...

The directors of the Tour de France came out in harsh criticism of the Saunier Duval-Scott rider Riccardo Ricc and his team manager Mauro Gianetti after it was announced Thursday that Ricc failed a doping ...

A third cyclist has been kicked out of the 2008 Tour de France for drug use following a positive test by promising Italian rider Riccardo Ricco.

A single second separate the top two, Cadel Evans and Frank Schleck, after a good week of racing and with two days in the high mountains already completed.

With two stage wins under his belt in a Tour de France he was not scheduled to enter, Riccardo Ricco should be satisfied.

Cadel Evans seized the yellow jersey atop Hautacam on Monday as Leonardo Piepoli won the mountainous stage 10 of the Tour de France, while Garmin-Chipotle's Christian Vande Velde solidified his third-place ...

The front end is bolstered by Alpha Q's new GS-40 carbon fork. Cervelo's 'squoval'-shaped tubes Zipp has been a long-time sponsor of the CSC team Beefy bottom bracket areas are a regular site Team CSC-Saxo Bank ...

KWC really should consider a career in sports writing , although his current profession pays much better I'm sure.

Eds: APNewsNow. UPDATES with stage result. AP Photos HAUTACAM, France Leonardo Piepoli of Italy has won the 10th stage of the Tour de France, featuring two punishing climbs in the Pyrenees.

Italian Leonardo Piepoli of the Saunier-Duval team won the 10th stage of the Tour de France, a 156-km trek from Pau to Hautacam on Monday.

Italian Riccardo Ricco recovered from a heavy crash on the race's eighth stage to win the Tour de France ninth stage in spectacular fashion here on Sunday.

Italy's leading climber, Riccardo Ricco has a reputation for shooting his mouth off, but yesterday the Saunier Duval-Scott rider correctly fulfilled his own pre-race prediction that he would win the Tour's ...