Tour de France News

I give my opinion on the Jan Ullrich affair in "Top Story" , BMC for the next races, the Tour of America announces the Dairyland Pro-Am Cycling Series and we find a scandal in Italy.

Ryder Hesjedal will lead Garmin-Barracuda 's attack on the 2012 Giro d'Italia . The Canadian, who finished 7th in the 2010 Tour de France says that the Giro course is better suited to his style of riding but that he will still ride the Tour in July.

Alberto Contador's absence will make it more difficult for Cadel Evans to win the Tour de France again, the Australian has said.

New Zealander Bevan Docherty has won the inaugural Panama half ironman, beating seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong in a close finish.

February 12, 2012 - The February 6 judgment by the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport against Alberto Contador Velasco 2010 doping case found the Spanish cyclist guilty and issued a two-year retroactive ban.

For the past few years, Thomas has been showing his apparently limitless ability on the road, by heading the best young rider's category at the Tour de France, challenging for sprint finishes and leading the peloton over the toughest Pyrenean Cols.

We asked several of the top pros racing Ironman 70.3 Panama how they feel about competing against seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, and we got a mixed reaction.

Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has told AP that he is relieved to put the US Federal investigation in the past.

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd says he probably pitched under the influence of cocaine "at every ballpark" during his 10-year career.

The editorial inbox here at PEZ has been both applauded and flamed for not taking a position either way.

The Earthquakes have signed two-time MLS leading goal scorer Chris Wondolowski to a new contract.

The long struggle to connect Lance Armstrong with doping finally came to an effective halt last Friday afternoon with the announcement that the federal investigation into the seven-times Tour de France winner had been abandoned after the best part of two years.

Cycling revisited its scandal-scarred recent history again Thursday when the Court of Arbitration for Sport found a Tour winner guilty of doping for the second time this week.

In an area with a heavy and palpable RCMP presence, the search for a wanted man is quiet, intense, and almost invisible.

Lance Armstrong says he's relieved by the end of a nearly two-year federal investigation into doping allegations against him, and that he always remained confident he would not be charged.

The Spanish government is considering legal action against a French TV station that poked fun at alleged ties to doping by athletes.

Meanwhile, an employee at a McDonalds restaurant in Townsville was taken to hospital after being overcome by toxic fumes at 8.55pm. The women was working in the Stockland Shopping Centre on Ross River Rd at Aitkenvale, southwest of Townsville, when a valve came loose on a drinks machine filling the air with carbon dioxide.

TIn this June 14, 2005 file photo Germany's Jan Ullrich putting on the yellow jersey he retained after the fourth stage from Vaduz, Liechtenstein to Bad Zurzach, Switzerland, of the Tour de Suisse cycling race.

Having had a couple of days to digest the two-year ban handed by CAS to Alberto Contador following his long drawn out, 18-month clenbuterol case, Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara has branded the process involved in ascertaining Contador's culpability as "crazy". 30-year-old Cancellara, who is at the 2012 Tour of Qatar in the colours of ... (more)

THE husband and coach of France's former Olympic and world champion Jeannie Longo is being questioned by police on "smuggling products dangerous for health" charges.