Doping

UCI chief Pat McQuaid says the Spanish government and teams need to work harder to catch dopers

Three-time mountain bike world champion Marga Fullana has been provisionally suspended for testing positive for the banned blood booster EPO.

In what’s yet another blow to Spanish cycling, three-time mountain bike world champion Marga Fullana has been provisionally suspended after a positive EPO test

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

Vuelta a España runner-up Ezequiel Mosquera has denied knowingly taking a banned substance, saying his "conscience is clear", after world cycling's ruling body said he had failed a dope test.

VeloNews European correspondent Andrew Hood reports that most Spaniards support their Tour champion

News of Alberto Contador's positive test for clenbuterol triggered a flood of reader questions.

The brand new world time trial silver medalist, who has his own doping past, says he supports Alberto Contador

Contador's 2011 team taking a wait-and-see position

Ezequiel Mosquera's team manager says the rider was not notified of a positive test result before the UCI announced the results.

Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, suspended Thursday after failing a dope test, blamed the positive result on contaminated meat, in an emotional protest of his innocence.

Spanish media outlets are reporting that Ezequiel Mosquera, a stage-winner and second overall at the 2010 Vuelta a España, has tested positive.

Alberto Contador, three-time winner of the Tour de France, has scheduled a news conference on Thursday to address news of an apparent positive test for the bronchodilator clenbuterol.

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

'I am innocent. I feel frustration and rage,' the Spaniard says of doping charges.

U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced Friday that Jelly Belly pro Jonathan Chodroff has accepted a two-year period of ineligibility for use and possession of EPO when he was a Category 3 amateur.

AG2R suspended Tadej Valjavec earlier this year after doubts about his biological passport, but the Slovenian cycling federation has refused to take any action against him.

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

The former Rock Racing rider reportedly flunked an in-competition test at the Vuelta a Columbia.

Doping sanctions against as many as two dozen U.S. riders — pro and amateur — could come out in coming weeks.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced Friday American cyclist Duane Dickey of Cokato, Minnesota, has accepted a lifetime suspension after a second anti-doping rule violation

The UCI announced Wednesday that Belgian Roy Sentjens (Milram), has been provisionally suspended following a positive test for EPO.

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

Manolo Saiz — the controversial Spanish sports director who was among eight people arrested in the Operación Puerto doping scandal back in 2006 – hopes to be back in the international peloton with a new team.

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.

The UCI says it has not closed the files on five riders whose Biological Passport values were deemed suspicious last winter.

The 2008 yellow jersey wearer plans to come back with the Italian squad at the end of the month, when his suspension ends.

Riccardo Riccò, the controversial Italian who tested positive for CERA-EPO during the 2008 Tour de France, has penned a deal to join Quick Step.

Sastre, Kashechkin, Schlecks – sí; Riccò, Rasmussen, Shack – no

Seattle-area Masters cyclist Kenny Williams has accepted an extension of his two-year doping ban because he competed while under suspension

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

Former Gerolsteiner manager Hans-Michael Holczer says blood tests showed "clear evidence" that American Levi Leipheimer doped during the 2005 Tour de France.

One rider quietly lining up at the start of last weekend’s Clásica San Sebastián was Andrey Kashechkin.

The China Daily reports that Fuyu Li's second sample has tested positive for a banned substance.

The International Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected Davide Rebellin's appeal against a doping charge from the 2008 Olympics.

The Explainer looks at laws that prosecutors might be considering when investigating Floyd Landis' allegations against Lance Armstrong and others

Green jersey winner Alessandro Petacchi is not taking questions about recent doping allegations, which are 'too general,' his lawyer says

"At some point, people have to tell their kids that Santa Claus isn't real," Landis says.

Lance Armstrong has confirmed that he has hired one of the country's best criminal defense firms to represent him in an ongoing federal investigation into doping.

Floyd Landis is expected at the Cascade Cycling Classic, starting Tuesday evening. Meanwhile, his former team has either disbanded or reorganized.

The green jersey wearer promises cooperation and his team says it will support him while awaiting further details.

Greg LeMond tells a French newspaper that the investigation into the Landis allegations could bring 'the end' to Lance Armstrong

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.