Doping

MADRID, Spain (AFP) - The Spanish Cycling Federation will inform Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of the results of its investigation into his positive drugs test from the 2010 race very shortly, a spokesman for the federation told AFP on Wednesday.

No one’s happier about growing speculation that a decision in the “caso Contador” could come as soon as Thursday than Alberto Contador.

Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will reportedly face a one-year suspension as a result of his positive doping test at last year's event, Spanish newspapers said Tuesday.

Alberto Contador rejoins his Saxo Bank-Sungard teammates this week with a training camp on Mallorca as he waits to hear word on his ongoing doping case.

Johan Bruyneel says there’s “nothing new” to the latest round of doping allegations leveled at Lance Armstrong, who raced his final international cycling event with Sunday’s conclusion at the Tour Down Under.

Hell yeah them boys are doped!

Anthony Tan touches bases with all the players to look at how Saxo Bank is surviving a mass exodus and uncertainty about its star recruit, Alberto Contador

Andy Schleck says he doesn’t want to win the Tour de France by default if Alberto Contador is disqualified from the 2010 edition. He wants to beat him straight up on the roads of France.

Many of the charges being leveled against Lance Armstrong have been around for years. Have they ever been proven or disproven?

UCI president Pat McQuaid says cycling will weather the doping storm involving some of the biggest names in the sport.

Don Catlin, founder of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory and a highly regarded authority on performance-enhancing drug tests, found his decade-old practices under scrutiny Tuesday as a Sports Illustrated article about Lance Armstrong suggests he was complicit in covering up positive tests during the 1990s

A decision on the ongoing Caso Contador should be known by the middle of February.

The Danish cycling federation Tuesday revealed that Philip Nielsen, 23, of the continental Concordia team, tested positive for clenbuterol during the 2010 Vuelta a Mexico. Nielsen won stage 8 of the Mexican tour in April and both A and B samples have come back positive. His case now is making its way through the Danish disciplinary process.

Luís León Sánchez has denied reports in the Spanish daily El Mundo that he’s linked to the ongoing doping investigation dubbed “Operación Galgo” that’s centered on alleged activities by Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes.

Spain's ongoing doping scandals took their ultimate toll this week with the apparent suicide of Alberto León.

Christian Prudhomme hopes that the Alberto Contador doping case is settled one way or another before the start of the 2011 Tour de France.

Former Spanish mountain bike rider Alberto Leon, one of six people accused last month as part of a probe into sports doping, was found dead in an apparent suicide, reports said Monday. More soon on this developing story.

Former Spanish mountain bike rider Alberto León Herranz found dead in an apparent suicide

Switzerland’s top court has reject an appeal by Alejandro Valverde, who had sought to overturn an earlier a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling suspending him until 2012.

The Spanish cycling federation has passed the hot potato that is the Alberto Contador doping case back to the UCI and the World Anti-Doping Agenc

Media reports naming Óscar Pereiro as “Urko” in the Operación Puerto have been proven false after Spanish authorities have linked track and field star Marta Domínguez to the alleged code name instead.

The Explainer follows up on a few continuing stories and answers a few questions from the inbox.

Alberto Contador is hunkering down this weekend to celebrate the Christmas holidays with family and friends in Spain as he faces a far from certain future.

Spain’s cycling federation president expects the Alberto Contador doping case to end up in the hands of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) no matter what decision is made

Flavia Oliveira, the Brazilian cyclist who recently won a reduction in her suspension for doping, has filed suit against the supplement manufacturer who she says caused the doping violation.

The UCI, in a front page editorial in the latest edition of its Velo World magazine, takes issue with Floyd Landis' charge that the organization gives favorable treatment to some cyclists.

Spain’s notorious Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes of Operacion Puerto fame is back in the headlines again after being one of the top figures in the latest doping scandal erupting in Spain, this time focused on athletics.

Prosecutors from the Italian Olympic Committee (CONIi) have asked that an entire family be banned for doping offenses related to a case involving Alessandro Petacchi.

The International Court of Arbitration for Sport has reduced the two-year suspension of Brazilian-born and U.S.-licensed rider Flavia Olivera to 18 months.

A reader wants to know what an athletes options might be when that dreaded letter from USADA arrives at your door.

Igor Astarloa – the former world champion who has not raced since 2009 – is the latest victim in the UCI’s controversial biological passport program.

Four-member panel now mulling tainted-meat argument

Floyd Landis has cast doubt on reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador's claims that a positive test for clenbuterol was due to contaminated meat.

What do a couple of suspended masters racers have to do with the current Federal investigation of doping in cycling? Where are the big names?

Neal Schubel, a 45-year-old masters racer from Saginaw, Michigan, has accepted a two-year suspension from competition after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency found that he had purchased and used synthetic erythropoietin (EPO).

Despite facing doping charges, Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will attend next week's Saxo Bank team camp.

Davide Rebellin vows to return to professional racing next season when his doping ban ends in April.

Alejandro Valverde lost the latest round of his lengthy attempt to overturn Italian anti-doping sanctions on Friday after Switzerland’s highest court rejected his arguments as “unfounded.”

Readers offer questions about testing in other sports, methods used in labs and why U.S. investigators are in France.

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Food and Drug Administration investigator Jeff Novitzky is in France to review doping evidence against Lance Armstrong.

Spain's El Pais newspaper reported Wednesday that investigators from the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) were unable to find evidence to support Alberto Contador's claim that contaminated meat was responsible for his positive doping test.

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Authorities in Italy carried out a search of the Brescia home of RadioShack’s Yaroslav Popovych on Thursday.

New signings and a talented roster show that the Astana team is prepared for 2011.

Spain's cycling federation (RFEC) said it might take up to three months to decide whether to sanction Tour de France winner Alberto Contador

Juan Carlos Castaño, president of the Spanish cycling federation, says he hopes to see Alberto Contador cleared of doping charges, but added that he's not the one to decide the outcome of the case

The International Cycling Union (UCI) today requested the Spanish National Cycling Federation (RFEC) to open disciplinary proceedings against the rider Alberto Contador. This request complies with the procedure set out by the World Anti-Doping Code as established by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

It will be up to the Spanish cycling federation to determine Contador's penalty.

Garmin's Jonathan Vaughters tells VeloNews' Andrew Hood that cycling fans should not expect fast and easy answers in Alberto Contador's doping case.

A reader wants to know how Yaroslav Popovych, a Ukrainian national, who lives in Italy, can be forced to appear before a U.S. grand jury.

Yaroslav Popovych, a teammate of Lance Armstrong, testified for 90 minutes before a federal grand jury in the U.S. that is probing doping in the sport, his lawyer said Wednesday.

RadioShack’s Yaroslav Popovych has been subpoenaed to testify before a U.S. Federal grand jury that is probing doping in the sport, largely focusing on his teammate Lance Armstrong.

France's AFLD said it is once again ready to help catch dopers at the Tour de France after independent observers called for an end to its UCI spat.

A French tribunal has ordered Floyd Landis and former coach Arnie Baker to stand trial for computer hacking