Mario Cipollini

The Italian has received a three-year prison sentence.

A court in Lucca, Italy, also fined the former world champion 85,000 euros.

The former rider is accused of attacking his ex-wife as well as threatening and stalking her.

The domestic violence and stalking case involving the ex-World Champion is nearing its end.

With its distance, its prestige and hard-to-predict nature, there is no race like it on the international calendar.

Nineteen years after Mario Cipollini was crowned world champion in Zolder, Belgium, we managed to get hold of not just his custom-painted world champion's bike but also the bike that took him to victory.

If you lined up 10 of the greatest sprinters from the last 30 years, who would win? Would it be thanks to their own power, or the kind of team that led them out?

With a balance of levity (AKA wheelies) and gravity (all-out descents), arriving at the finish within the time limit is the goal for the peloton’s non-climbers.

Mario Cipollini celebrates his birthday March 22, so we put together a gallery of our favorite "Lion King" moments.

With Milano-Sanremo only days away, we are taking a look back at some of the most memorable editions of “La Primavera.”

Dan and Simon of Global Cycling Network debate who is the best sprinter of all time — Mark Cavendish or Mario Cipollini. Who's your pick?

Sprint legend Mario Cipollini questions Alberto Contador's stage 5 bike change in post-Giro TV program

The retired Italian sprinter hit a car that turned in front of him, sending him sprawling into the tail-end of the car

What if history's greatest sprinters got together for seven or eight hot stages in July? Since they can’t, we picked our 10 favorites

Renato Di Rocco says the French Senate should release the names of the other athletes involved across all sports

Joaquim Rodríguez and Daniel Moreno are sharing storied and infamous digs at the Hotel Malpertuus in Riemst, Belgium, this week

Italian Olympic committee will look into allegations made by La Gazzetta dello Sport that the "Lion King" doped his way to his 2002 world title and more

A half dozen riders will appear for three days of testimony regarding the doping ring

La Gazzetta dello Sport charges that Fuentes prepared an extensive doping program for the "Lion King"

Farnese boss scornful over "Lion King's" return to racing

Cipollini suggests he might just do that