Doping

Hans-Michael Holczer says efforts to clean up cycling give him hope that he can return to the sport.

According to reports in the Belgian press, Roel Paulissen, reigning marathon mountain bike world champion and 10-time Belgian Champion, failed a doping control last month.

Lance Armstrong's attorney reacts to the apparent contradiction between his remarks Wednesday and a 2005 deposition.

A profile of today's Tour de France stage winner

Lance Armstrong denies being part of a doping system, says he did not own the USPS team.

The New York Times quotes sources saying a grand jury has issued subpoenas for several witnesses in the investigation into Floyd Landis' claims.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the probe is moving quickly and that George Hincapie and Tyler Hamilton have been contacted. Lance Armstrong says there's nothing new in the report.

The UCI chief says Lance Armstrong receives no special treatment from the cycling federation

David Howman, WADA's director general, says the agency is working with U.S. authorities to investigate doping claims made by Floyd Landis.

Editor in chief Ben Delaney weighs in on the Landis allegations

Italian star Ivan Basso admitted the emotions were in full flow as he prepared to complete his return to the Tour de France today.

Armstrong says it's just another sensational pre-Tour article based on allegations of an ax-grinder

VeloNews' John Wilcockson wonders what impact Floyd Landis' allegations of doping and fraud against former teammate Lance Armstrong will have on this Tour de France.

American paper releases story with more details of Floyd Landis' allegations that Lance Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Service team were involved in doping practices during the last decade.

Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme believes the quality of challenger to reigning champion Alberto Contador will make for the most openly competitive race in years.

The Tour de France is about surviving and hanging on for three weeks, but some big names are missing out this year even before the race leaves the start house with Saturday’s prologue in Rotterdam.

Swiss rider Thomas Frei has been handed a two-year ban after testing positive for the banned EPO in March, the Swiss Olympic committee announced on Wednesday.

It's a Riccò violation.

Ivan Basso (Liquigas) says returning to the Tour de France for the first time since 2005 makes him an outsider for victory and insists the favorite will be Alberto Contador.

Lampre confirms talks with Kashechkin

Floyd Landis, who last month admitted doping throughout his cycling career and accused Lance Armstrong and others, has hired a law firm that once represented cyclist Greg LeMond. The UCI also has sent a "strongly worded" letter to Landis asking him to stop making claims that Lance Armstrong conspired with UCI official to suppress an alleged positive doping test.

Lampre's Pietro Caucchioli received a two-year racing ban for irregular values on his biological passport.

While Dick Pound’s term as WADA president expired at the end of 2007, the 68-year-old former Olympic swimmer remains a member of the WADA board and still quite willing to express his opinions.

UCI press release re: Alejandro Valverde suspension

With a second Giro victory in the books, Ivan Basso is ready to start thinking about a return to the Tour de France

The BMC team re-instates former world champ Alessandro Ballan after an internal investigation finds no evidence of doping.

The OUCH-Bahati Foundation team is back to being just Bahati Foundation, and is hustling to restructure after the doping revelations and allegations by its rider Floyd Landis. Longtime Landis supporter Dr. Brent Kay is the principal behind OUCH Medical Center.

Slipstream Sports, the owner and manager of the Garmin-Transitions team, says its riders are obligated to cooperate with an investigation into Floyd Landis' doping allegations.

The nature — and even existence — of the reported federal investigation into Floyd Landis’ claims against Lance Armstrong and others is unknown. But a San Francisco lawyer who specializes in bringing fraud suits against government contractors says Landis could be acting as a whistleblower and could collect a portion of any judgment.

Federal authorities are investigating Floyd Landis' charges against Lance Armstrong and other cyclists with an eye toward criminal charges, the New York Times is reporting.

The UCI has asked national federations to investigate charges against cyclists and team management who Floyd Landis has named in accusatory emails sent to officials last week.

UCI Press Release: The UCI requests inquiries

BMC Racing Team: Statement Regarding Investigation Initiated by UCI Through FFC against John Lelangue

UCI Press Release of May 25, 2010

UCI chief Pat McQuaid on Tuesday rejected claims there was a conflict of interest in the sport's governing body accepting a $100,000 donation from Lance Armstrong about eight years ago.

In an attempt to disprove Floyd Landis’ credibility, Lance Armstrong has released a month’s worth of emails between Landis, longtime Landis supporter Dr. Brent Kay and AEG Sports president Andrew Messick, the man in charge of the Amgen Tour of California.

Greg Lemond, the first American to win the Tour de France, says he believes "most of Floyd Landis's statements" charging systematic doping in cycling.

Floyd Landis did not put his best foot forward in his presentation of assertions that many high-level riders and team staff doped or assisted riders to dope in the years 2002-2006. But does that automatically mean his claims are false?

A directory of all the VeloNews.com articles related to Floyd Landis' doping allegations.

Garmin-Transitions team manager Jonathan Vaughters told VeloNews Thursday morning that his team will focus on winning the Amgen Tour of California in light of sweeping doping allegations announced by Floyd Landis Wednesday that include Garmin’s overall race leader Dave Zabriskie.

The cycling world reacts to Floyd Landis’ public admission of doping and his allegations regarding former employers and teammates, among them Lance Armstrong.

Nearly four years after he was disqualified as the winner of the 2006 Tour de France for a doping postive, Floyd Landis told ESPN.com Wednesday night that he doped during much of his career. He told ESPN.com of his "extensive, consistent use of the red blood cell booster erythropoietin (commonly known as EPO), testosterone, human growth hormone and frequent blood transfusions, along with female hormones and a one-time experiment with insulin, during the years that he rode for the U.S. Postal Service and Switzerland-based Phonak teams," the ESPN.com story reads.

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Giro promises tougher controls in 2010

Increased anti-doping protocols planned for Amgen Tour

Readers weigh in on Cav's salute, Vino's return, Williams' suspension.

A reader asks why a suspended rider keeps showing up at local training races.

Vino's win, bottles in Belgium and frequent flyer tips

Former LPR rider Gabriele Bosisio was hit with a two-year suspension by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on Wednesday after testing positive for the banned blood-booster EPO last fall.

In a week that’s seen some ghosts of doping past step up and win big races after serving bans, yet another rider with a notorious past was back on the winner’s podium.

After the Kazakh dropped the Russian in the last 100 meters of the last climb and cruised the final 400 meters to the line, the crowd let out an unseemly chorus of boos. That’s probably never happened before at a monumental classic.

Luca Paolini (Acqua & Sapone), Eddy Mazzoleni, Ivan Basso's sister and 26 others have been charged with doping after a four-year investigation, the Italian sports daily La Gazzetta Dello Sport reported Saturday.

The BMC team has suspended Swiss rider Thomas Frei after he tested positive for EPO.

The UCI has issued a provisional suspension of RadioShack rider Li Fuyu after he tested positive for the stimulant Clenbuterol at last month’s Tour of Flanders.

Austrian prosecutors said Thursday that cyclist Christof Kerschbaum was arrested and charged with distribution of performance-enhancing drugs, making him the first athlete who faces jail time under provisions of the country’s new anti-doping law.

Doping rules are consistent across Olympic sports. Are they applied consistently? Not always.

John Wilcockson re-caps Flèche Wallonne and compares its victor to the those on the podium at the concurrent Giro del Trentino.

Restructured course opens up the Flèche

The U.S. Anti-Doping Association has announced the two-year suspension of Brazilian-born and U.S.-licensed rider Flavia Oliveira for a doping violation committed in last year’s edition of the women’s Giro del Trentino.

The BMC team has suspended former world champion Alessandro Ballan after his name was among those under investigation in an ongoing Italian doping case.

Readers weigh in on the Tour of California, April Fools and doping penalties

Stefan Schumacher has withdrawn his appeal against an International Olympic Committee ruling that he committed an anti-doping rule violation during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Alejandro Valverde hopes to profit from Alberto Contador's absence at the Tour of the Basque Country.

Zirbel accepts a two-year suspension

The Italian Olympic Committee has announced that the B sample of cyclist Vania Rossi has come back negative.

The Italian Cycling Federation has order former Liquigas rider Manuel Beltran to pay 100,000 Euros in compensation to his old team after he tested positive for EPO at the 2008 Tour de France.

UCI president Pat McQuaid said Saturday that governing body will wait for the outcome of a pending appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport before seeking a worldwide ban of Caisse d'Epargne's Alejandro Valverde.

The UCI has filed an appeal to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) challenging a decision by the Swiss Olympic Committee to end its doping case against 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich.

A three-member arbitration panel has issued a two-year suspension of David Clinger for a positive testosterone test at last year’s national elite championships in Bend, Oregon.

A French court of appeals has upheld the prison sentence of Bernard Sainz – also known as "Dr. Mabuse" – following his 2008 conviction on charges related to doping athletes in the late 1990s.

The International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected Alejandro Valverde’s challenge to his two-year suspension from competition in Italy.

The UCI has provisionally suspended Italian pro Massimo Giunti after a laboratory found the blood booster EPO in a urine sample from an out-of-competition test on February 23.

The UCI has announced that the governing body’s anti-doping manager, Anne Gripper, will leave the post this month, citing a desire to return to her home in Australia.

The Vienna laboratory Humanplasma hit back on Tuesday at claims that it stood at the center of a massive doping network, naming instead several well-known coaches for the first time.

American cyclist Tom Zirbel announced on his blog Friday that he is retiring from the sport rather than continue an aggressive fight against doping charges.

Former cyclist Joe Papp, who testified against Floyd Landis in 2007, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to sell EPO and other drugs, the AP is reporting