Doping

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Sports director served a six-month ban after admitting to doping during his career as a rider

Italian-based squad saw two of its riders test positive for EPO before and during the Giro d'Italia last month

New report presents data-driven doubts on climbing performances, past and present

German says the Texan did "enormous harm" to cycling by doping and taking illegal drugs

Australian returns to his sports director role on a 12-month probationary period following his doping admission last fall

French rider tested positive for a banned stimulant after stage 7 of the three-week race through Italy

The USADA CEO says Pat McQuaid and cycling’s governing body are not doing all they can to establish a truth-telling process

Traces of two steroids are found in the 23-year-old's urine sample from an out-of-competition test

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U.S.-based amateur receives two-year extension to his ban after racing in Argentina

The skies over Italy have darkened with the news of two riders having tested positive for EPO before and during the Giro

British Cycling boss Brian Cookson is running for UCI President, and says he’ll fix the governing body’s broken image

VeloNews contributor Mark Johnson writes that, if knowledge is power, Lance Armstrong has plenty to wield through truth and reconciliation

After its second EPO positive, Vini Fantini boss says the team is likely to stop

Italian GC rider tests positive, according to report from La Gazzetta dello Sport

Former pro and journalist Ian Dille examines the uncomfortable reality of a Freddie Rodriguez national title

In an interview, the UCI boss reiterates the governing body's opinion on the ruling from the Spanish doping case

The Italian rider's latest doping issue stems from a positive EPO test taken before the Giro

In today's peloton, admirable performances invite suspicion and Andrew Hood reviews the evidence surrounding Vincenzo Nibali

With a clean record and history of speaking out against doping, Vincenzo Nibali's Giro win welcomed after Di Luca's positive EPO test

Di Luca's positive sends the Giro into chaos, but teams and riders are paving a path forward that is hard for some aging pros to navigate

Giro director says Danilo Di Luca's EPO positive reveals a case of dependency in the race's former champion

Riders, managers have strong words for Italian on social media after learning of his positive EPO test

An out-of-competition test before the race detected the illegal blood booster

President says the sport's global governing body is working with USADA, hopes for external audit to start in June

Italian sat out three months for working with Michele Ferrari on what he claimed was training, not doping

Vincent Lavenu pulls his French squad from its home race as part of MPCC-required one-week ban

Frenchman could receive a two-year ban, but can avoid sanction if he can prove accidental ingestion

USADA is asking questions about the former Postal Service management team and the UCI and USA Cycling are pointing at each other

Former adversaries and teammates reconnect and discuss ways to move cycling forward and focus on eliminating the cultural structure of doping

Prosecutor to file appeal and ask for Fuentes' sentence to be extended to two years, meaning jail time

Czech Amstel Gold Race winner says he worked with Ferrari during his rookie season, but never used banned substances

Laurent Jalabert tells panel he never knowingly took banned substances without a Therapeutic Use Exemption

The stimulant heptaminol is discovered in a urine sample taken during stage 7

Cycling world governing body wants access to the more than 200 blood and plasma bags seized in raids during the Puerto investigation

Spanish rider was suspended after links to the Operación Puerto doping scandal surfaced

Irish cyclist-turned-sports-writer has no access to a public defense fund that was set up on his behalf in response to a UCI lawsuit

A Spanish judge ordered the blood bags destroyed at the conclusion of the two-month trial last month

With a cadre of riders with checkered pasts vying for a Giro stage win, Enrico Battaglin's victory helps turn the focus to the future

Garmin-Sharp rider says he'd glad he decided to return to racing after his six-month, offseason doping suspension

Marlon Alirio Perez Arango tested positive for a banned substance on two occasions at the Vuelta a Costa Rica in December

Former pro admits to being a part of the U.S. Postal Service team's doping program, was banned for six months until April 13

Allegations of mismanagement have popular cycling bloggers at odds and Paul Kimmage pondering walking away from cycling

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Tour de France chief says the sport is cleaning itself up in the wake of the Lance Armstrong affair

Olympic body says it's disappointed the evidence will not be "available to anti-doping organizations to further the fight against doping"

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Tensions between the two organizations arose during Paris-Nice in March

Governing body responds to Travis Tygart's claims of "doing nothing" to help rid the sport of doping

The federal government has followed through on its pledge to join Floyd Landis in his whistleblower suit, naming Johan Bruyneel

Spanish court should hand down Puerto verdicts next week

Doping panel talks about the U.S. Postal Service investigation and the lack of change in cycling since the Armstrong report landed

Saxo-Tinkoff rider walks away from reporters when asked about Dr. Michele Ferrari

Vice president of Irish cycling resigns after board supports Pat McQuaid's reelection bid

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Czech's win resurfaces questions over links to Ferrari, Riis' links to Fuentes

With another doping case, this time for experimental drug GW1516, Russia's professionals are facing bad news

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Greg and Kathy LeMond, along with Betsy Andreu, will speak at a symposium about doping at the University of Texas in Austin

Norwegian rider admitted to taking EPO, but the offense falls outside the statute of limitations

After 10 weeks, the Operación Puerto trial is nearly over. What have we learned about the doping case that started in 2006?

Former Gerolsteiner rider now competes on Danish team Christina Watches-Onfone

The American anti-doping agency is collaborating with international agencies as its investigation deepens

Puerto doctor provided testimony in defamation case between soccer club and Le Monde in 2006

Former French sports minister says IOC, FIFA, Verbruggen pressured to ease doping law for Olympics, World Cup

Pablo Jimenez de Parga says a strong sentence for Fuentes and four others will show that Spain is committed to stopping doping

Peter Stetina urges fans to support Garmin's riders returning from suspension after they contributed to USADA's Postal investigation

47-year-old raced from 1986-2002 and won several races and grand tour stages, along with an Olympic silver medal

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Tyler Hamilton talks more about his book that exposed many of cycling's dirty doping secrets

Spanish prosecutors give final arguments in their case against Eufemiano Fuentes, Manolo Saiz, and three others

Team principal defends Bradley Wiggins, others regarding "Internet rumors" that allege doping on the British squad

WADA attorney reiterates desire for Puerto blood bags to be handed over, but the UCI mum at Fuentes trial

Sky's point man for finish-line PR at the Tour talks about balancing the team's transparency and privacy, Wiggins' growth, and winning tours

USA Cycling announces RaceClean program that will increase in- and out-of-competition testing for amateurs and professionals

Italian riding discreetly at Paris-Nice after contract restructuring with Lampre

Russian denies Rasmussen's testimony, say he has no comment on doping