Lance Armstrong

The Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport reported Thursday that U.S. investigators are working with their Italian counterparts to review millions of dollars’ worth of financial transactions involving physician Michele Ferrari and several high-profile cyclists.

Lance Armstrong has confirmed that he will not be racing at the 2011 Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

Running legend Alberto Salazar has cleared up the question of whether or not Lance Armstrong will be returning to the sport of triathlon. In a recent interview on Competitor Radio, Salazar commented that Armstrong is not only aiming to make a comeback in the sport of triathlon, but he’s looking to do it in a big way.

WASHINGTON, D.C. ─ Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) has criticized the ongoing federal probe into seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and allegations of doping.

KANSAS CITY, Kansas, March 8, 2011 (AFP) - Lance Armstrong's foundation Livestrong has signed a naming rights deal for the new $200 million stadium of Major League Soccer's Sporting Kansas City, the club said Tuesday.

Must Reads: Mosquera still in limbo, Armstrong campaigns for cig tax

Roaming Rantist Patrick O'Grady has a religious experience — or perhaps it's just the wine and wafers backing up on him again.

Now that Retirement 2.0 has come, what did Lance Armstrong’s comeback mean for big time American racing? And can the Amgen Tour of California and Quiznos Pro Challenge survive in his absence? One way to answer the question is to look at the effect his presence, or absence, has made on previous events.

Finally, more than 25 years after he first put a leg over a bike in a racing environment, Lance Armstrong says his competitive cycling days are over.

A web version of a timeline that first ran in the january 2009 issue of VeloNews magazine

When Armstrong announced his comeback in 2008, he mentioned a repeat performance — of Tour victory, not as the guy on the receiving end of doping questions.

During that press conference, as my hand was in the air, LeMond whispered in my ear, “Come on, Neal, ask the real questions.” It was without question the single most surreal moment in my professional career ...

Armstrong's second comeback did not spur as many new bike tech ideas as the first, Lennard Zinn says.

As a former RadioShack mechanic, I’m constantly asked for the inside scoop on working with Lance Armstrong. With today’s announcement of his (second) retirement from professional racing, the timing is right to answer that question.

Results and highlights from Armstrong's return from his first retirement

AUSTIN, Texas (AFP) - Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong on Wednesday announced his retirment from professional cycling at the age of 39.

In an exit interview with The Associated Press, Lance Armstrong says he will not race his bike again.

Tour of California organizers on Wednesday said Lance Armstrong is not a confirmed starter for this year's race.

Don Catlin, former director of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Lab and, briefly, the overseer of Lance Armstrong's anti-doping program during his 2009 comeback, says a recent Sports Illustrated article on Armstrong contains innuendo and mischaracterizes elements of the story about him.

Mike Anderson, who worked as a mechanic and handyman for Lance Armstrong during the Texan’s years of Tour de France domination, has told VeloNews that he stands by accusations he has made that Armstrong possessed performance-enhancing drugs, and said he is “ashamed” of his former association with the star cyclist.

Former USA Cycling president Jim Ochowicz has downplayed allegations from Floyd Landis that he has been involved in political maneuvering between U.S. riders and the UCI.

Is pro cycling sport or entertainment? Master of ceremonies Patrick O'Grady has the envelope.

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!

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

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

Lance Armstrong has pulled out of the event next month that was supposed to be his springboard back into triathlon competition.

January’s Tour Down Under is still the only confirmed race appearance for Lance Armstrong in 2011.

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.

Motorcycle champ Ben Bostrom tops field; Armstrong drops out with hurting knee. Shontell Gauthier wins women's solo.

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

At the premiere of Race Across the Sky 2010, Leadville 100 champion Levi Leipheimer said the race was tougher than expected

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.

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

A year has passed since Jeff Castelaz rode across the country to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer and mourn the death of his own son. This year, another ride united Castelaz' music and cycling community, including Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer.

Lance Armstrong will race for the last time outside the United States in January when he makes an international farewell appearance at the Tour Down Under.

Armstrong and companion Anna Hansen announce the birth of their daughter on Monday.

Pierre Bordry says Contador's beef defense is hard to believe

Floyd Landis has said the physiologist, now with RadioShack, helped him dope.

Pierre Bordry, the often-controversial head of the French anti-doping agency, Agence Française de Lutte contre le Dopage, announced his resignation on Friday.

Stephanie McIlvain, a former close associate of Lance Armstrong, testified before an American grand jury Wednesday

The team is being called before a disciplinary hearing for wearing un-approved kit on the last day of the 2010 Tour de France

Stephanie McIlvain testified in an earlier case that she never heard the seven-time Tour de France champ admit to using performance-enhancing drugs.

Floyd Landis, former teammate of Lance Armstrong, has filed a federal "whistle-blower" lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Increasingly concerned about news leaks and the apparent focus of a federal investigation involving doping, Lance Armstrong has added more muscle to his legal team, that of former White House special counsel Mark Fabiani.

Lance Armstrong will give the commencement address at High Point University in North Carolina next May.

VIDEO: Six-time Leadville Trail 100 winner Dave Wiens has gone up against the likes of Armstrong and Landis — and won. "I'm still here. I can go pretty good for a 45 year old."

The Leadville Trail 100 will see its deepest field ever duke it out, including Dave Wien Levi Leipheimer, Todd Wells, Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and a host of other names start the Colorado epic.

Defending champion Lance Armstrong will not start the Leadville Trail 100 this year. Armstrong decided Monday to pull out of the high-altitude mountain bike race because of a hip injury sustained in a crash in the Tour de France.

Defending champion Lance Armstrong will not start the Leadville Traill 100 this year. Armstrong decided Monday to pull out of the high-altitude mountain bike race.

Trek Bicycle Corporation officials told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Friday that they have provided documents to a federal criminal investigation involving Lance Armstrong.

In an exclusive interview, the RadioShack team boss talks about the team's Tour de France, its new stagiaires, 'jerseygate,' Contador and the team's future.

Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and Colorado governor Bill Ritter announce the Quiznos Pro Challenge, a new Colorado stage race for August 2011.