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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis blames his positive doping test on the French laboratory that examined his sample, according to a story in a Pennsylvania newspaper published Sunday. In a story posted on the website of the Intelligencer of suburban Philadelphia, Landis confirmed plans to ask Monday that the result be thrown out because of "contradictions" between his "A" and "B" samples. "On Monday we'll submit a request for the case to be dropped because, based on the 'A' and the 'B' sample, there are too many contradictions for the two to be the same sample," Landis

USA Cycling has announced the elite teams that will represent the United States at the 2006 UCI Road World Championships September 19-24 in Salzburg, Austria. In the elite men’s division, the United States qualified the maximum nine riders in the road race and will field a team consisting of six UCI ProTour veterans and three domestic-based pros. ProTour riders Chris Horner (Bend, Ore./Davitamon-Lotto) Fred Rodriguez (Emeryville, Calif./Davitamon-Lotto), Christian VandeVelde (Boulder, Colo./CSC), Tyler Farrar (Wenatchee, Wash./Cofidis), Patrick McCarty (Allen, Texas/Phonak), and Guido Trenti

Bruyneel is overseeing some big changes at Discovery.

Brajkovic could be the new star of the future.

View from the Bench: Injured Kintner covers World Cup gravity finals

Förster snags the win

Rodriguez crossed ninth, Horner 21st

Garcia's solo was doomed

Valverde and the other favorites can smell the finish line

Carlstrom and Garcia enjoying their moment in the sun

The long and winding road

Kashechkin lost ground to Valverde

Valverde held his own and then some

Sastre held on to third on GC

Is Millar coming close to his old form?

By a hair: Cancellara was but a fraction of a second back.

Danielson improved his GC position by a bit

Floyd Landis’s solo Stage 17 victory at the Tour de France at Morzine-Avoriazeasily ranked as one of the most mythic comebacks in the history of cycling.This stage win and Floyd’s subsequent Tour de France victory confirmedthe vibrancy of American cycling après Lance.Of course, all that changed when Floyd’s positive test for testosteronewas revealed. Now the elation turned to horrendous disappointment and disbelief.The issue of Floyd’s Tour win is hardly a closed book; Floyd may well stillprevail and I hope that he does.Regardless of the outcome, though, the damage has been done to the

French anti-doping chief Pierre Bordry has branded the number of cyclists taking authorized doping products on the Tour de France as “suspicious.” Bordry said in comments to be published in Saturday's edition of Le Monde newspaper that 12 of the 13 cyclists who tested positive for banned substances at this year's Tour had a "Therapeutic Use Exemption" (TUE) to permit their use of otherwise-banned substances. Most commonly, riders have prescriptions for Salbutamol and other asthma drugs, which are banned because the drugs improve a user's ability to breathe. World Anti-doping

German prosecutors charged Friday that former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich has been taking banned substances since 2003. Ullrich was sacked by his T-Mobile team and kicked off the Tour this year after being implicated in a doping probe launched in Spain. In July, German officials took up the investigation, which linked Ullrich to tainted Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, and now they seem convinced that Ullrich, who continues to protest his innocence, is guilty. "Since 2003 unauthorized products were bought by Ullrich," said a spokesperson for Bonn prosecutors. "These are not

Floyd Landis’s attorney Howard Jacobs said Wednesday that he intends to request the dismissal of the doping case against client based on “inconsistencies in the testing protocol and methodology” used to show that the 2006 Tour de France was positive for testosterone. Jacobs said he will file a formal request with USADA on Monday, September 11 asking that the anti-doping agency drop the allegations against Landis and cease further disciplinary action. In a press release issued Friday, Jacobs’s office noted that upon “review of 370 pages of documentation provided by the LNDD laboratory at

'If you don't take risks, you don't win,' says today's winner.

Coming into Cuenca.

Boogerd and crew tried to make a go of it...

Valverde tightened his grip a bit on Friday

The biggies were not about to be left behind

..until the peloton decided it was time to chase

Quick Step leads the chase

Milram in pursuit

More than 50 cyclists implicated in Operación Puerto could be hauled before a Spanish court to give testimony, if the prosecution gets its way. Prosecutors have asked a Spanish judge to call riders connected to an alleged blood-doping ring headed up by Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes to give testimony, Spanish daily El País reported Thursday. Riders would be required to take an oath to tell the truth in court or face possible perjury charges. Otherwise, riders implicated in the Puerto case are not facing any legal sanctions in Spain because the nation has no anti-doping laws. More than 50

Dear Bob,I don't remember if you've covered this question. This has come up a number of times in our club lately. Is it legal to ride across an intersection in the crosswalk? Are you considered a pedestrian or bicyclist if you are hit by a vehicle while riding your bicycle across an intersection in the crosswalk? Tucson, Arizona, has a number of crosswalks, with their own crossing lights, that are situated in the middle of the blocks and some in our club claim that you must walk across rather than ride across. Quite a few people have been killed in these crosswalks by vehicles not

Paolini had time to sit up and celebrate

The Horner move

The break that stuck

Astana presses the chase

Valverde enjoys another golden moment

Rolling along the Spanish roads

Paolini salutes

After a lengthy sorting out, the break was composed of 13 acceptable escapees...

A win and a jersey in each of the grand tours... and Disco' leads the team standings, too.

and then it was whittled down to three...

... and then there was one.

And it stayed that way to the finish.

Heading into Burgos - The peloton made an easy day of it as the escapees fought it out for the stage win.

Michael Barry

Attack, attack and attack again. Martinez just kept trying.

A weary Paulinho enjoys his first grant-tour win

Golden boy Valverde

The peloton passes by Buckingham Palace in this year's Tour of Britain.

Valverde has the jersey. Vino and Kashechkin want to see him back in the white jersey fo the ProTour leader

Fi’zi:k Arione k:1

The Cricket never sleeps

Fi’zi:k Free:k clothing

Cuesta takes up the chase

Bling Bling: Selle Italia’s $64,000 saddle

George in the red, white and blue

All three styles of Prologo’s top-end Choice Pro Ti, winter, gel and regular, keep in mind colors are abound

Soloing across the line

Castelli’s Superleggera jersey only weighs 74 grams

Kintner v. Miller

Christian Spolik and his latest project bike

Prokop v. Lopes

There are brakes tucked in behind the crankset

Buy you a drink?

They are slightly easier to see on the fork

Leipheimer leads

One fast Felt

Hincapie climbs

The brake is tucked behind the bottom bracket

Hincapie corners

Miriam Bengoetxea and her new baby.

Vinokourov does it again

Winning in front of the home crowd can't be beat

Orbea’s badge/cable stop combo

Vinokourov triggered the attack and Kashechkin followed suit

EuroBike: That's a wrap

You will be seeing a lot from this guy in the future

Time’s new frames, the Pro Team in front and the UL in the rear

Valverde takes the helm