NAPLES, Italy (AP) -Two-time winner Ivan Basso has pulled out of the Giro d’Italia two days before the race starts due to a cyst. Basso’s Cannondale squad said Thursday that the problem is located in the rider’s seat area. Basso [...]

NAPLES, Italy (AP) -Bradley Wiggins is focusing purely on the Giro d’Italia and doesn’t want to discuss anymore whether he or Chris Froome will lead Team Sky at the Tour de France. Wiggins has said for months that the Giro, which [...]

SYDNEY (AP) -Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme says professional cycling has changed considerably since the Lance Armstrong scandal first broke, even if it still has some problems. Prudhomme, speaking in Australia on Wednesday, said [...]

MADRID (AP) -The Spanish doctor at the heart of one of cycling’s biggest doping scandals was found guilty Tuesday of endangering public health and given a one-year suspended jail sentence in the Operation Puerto case. Eufemiano Fuentes [...]

/ PARIS (Reuters) – US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) president Travis Tygart accused the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday of failing in its promise to deal with the consequences of the Lance Armstrong scandal. Speaking before [...]

MADRID (AP) -The verdicts in the Operation Puerto doping case will be delivered on Tuesday, seven years after a police raid uncovered one of the biggest cheating scandals in cycling. The case centers around Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes and four other [...]

PARIS (AP) -The International Cycling Union will work with the French anti-doping agency to test riders at this year’s Tour de France. The French agency, known as AFLD, has been involved in several rifts with cycling’s governing [...]

WIGAN, England (AP) – Bradley Wiggins may try the rare Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double. The Giro is his priority this year, and Wiggins has previously suggested he will be a support rider for Team Sky colleague and British compatriot [...]

DUBLIN (AP) – Pat McQuaid’s nomination by Cycling Ireland to stand for a third term as head of the sport’s world governing body is to be re-considered. The UCI president has been under pressure since details emerged of systematic [...]

GRANGES, Switzerland (AP) – Ramunas Navardauskas of Lithuania sprinted to his first individual stage win at the Tour of Romandie on Thursday, and Chris Froome of Britain maintained the overall lead. The 25-year-old Garmin Sharp rider won [...]

MANCHESTER, England (AP) -Bradley Wiggins will lead Team Sky in next month’s Giro d’Italia as he looks to follow up his victory in last year’s Tour de France with success in cycling’s second biggest stage race. The Olympic [...]

PARIS (AP) -The head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency wants Lance Armstrong to come forward with information detailing the alleged complicity of cycling’s governing body in his doping. Travis Tygart appeared at a Senate hearing in Paris [...]

/ PARIS (Reuters) – US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) president Travis Tygart accused the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday of failing in its promise to deal with the consequences of the Lance Armstrong scandal. Speaking before [...]

MANCHESTER, England (AP) -Bradley Wiggins will lead Team Sky in next month’s Giro d’Italia as he looks to follow up his victory in last year’s Tour de France with success in cycling’s second biggest stage race. The Olympic [...]

/ AUSTIN, Texas – The Justice Department laid out its case in a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong on Tuesday, saying the cyclist violated his contract with the U.S. Postal Service and was “unjustly enriched” while cheating [...]

BRUSSELS (AP) – Daniel Martin of Ireland won the hilly Liege-Bastogne-Liege race Sunday, pulling away from Spain’s Joaquim Rodriguez in the uphill stretch to the finish to take cycling’s oldest classic. Martin made sure he [...]

LONDON (AP) – Lance Armstrong’s former team manager believes cycling has entered a new era after months of controversy, much of it provoked by the disgraced former seven-time Tour de France winner. In his first website posting since [...]

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) – Chris Hoy, Britain’s most decorated Olympian with six golds medals, retired from cycling Thursday after a 13-year career at the top of the sport. The 37-year-old Scot spearheaded Britain’s surge to [...]

/ PARIS (Reuters) – Alberto Contador will ride in the Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day races this week after considering skipping them because of fatigue, the double Tour de France champion said on Monday. “(My [...]

VALKENBURG, Netherlands (AP) – Roman Kreuziger of the Czech Republic attacked early and held off the favorites Sunday to win the Amstel Gold Race around the hills of the southern Netherlands for his first classic victory. Two-time winner [...]

ROUBAIX, France – Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland edged Sep Vanmarcke in a final sprint to win the Paris-Roubaix cobblestone classic for a third time on Sunday. Cancellara was the heavy favorite for the 158-mile race following the withdrawal [...]

LONDON (AP) – Pat McQuaid has been nominated for a third term as president of cycling’s world governing body on the condition he overhauls the UCI, after both he and the organization were heavily scrutinized following the Lance Armstrong [...]

AIGLE, Switzerland (AP) – Russian track cyclist Valery Kaykov has been suspended after testing positive for a black-market drug that the World Anti-Doping Agency issued a health warning about last month. The International Cycling Union [...]

/ AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Disgraced former cycling champion Lance Armstrong has sold his sprawling home in the hills of Austin, Texas, his spokesman said on Thursday. Spokesman Mark Higgins, who spoke to Reuters, said Armstrong would [...]

MILAN (AP) -Russian cycling team Katusha has been granted entry into the Giro d’Italia and will be one of 23 teams to start the famous race on May 4. Katusha has been included after winning its appeal against the International Cycling [...]

ROUBAIX, France – Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland edged Sep Vanmarcke in a final sprint to win the Paris-Roubaix cobblestone classic for a third time on Sunday. Cancellara was the heavy favorite for the 158-mile race following the withdrawal [...]

BRUSSELS (AP) -Fabian Cancellara broke away on the final hill of the Ronde of Flanders and finished the classic in his unmatched time-trial style to win the WorldTour race ahead of Slovak Peter Sagan. It was the second major WorldTour race Cancellara [...]

BERLIN (AP) -Cyclist Stefan Schumacher has acknowledged in an interview with a German magazine that he used banned substances including EPO and human growth hormone. The 31-year-old German rider was quoted on Friday as telling the weekly Der [...]

/ (Reuters) – Cadel Evans, bidding to revive his career after struggling since winning the 2011 Tour de France, has gone against convention and decided to race in May’s Giro d’Italia in an effort to improve for this year’s [...]

BERLIN (AP) – Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich says he played a role in “what happened in cycling” but did not offer a clear confession about doping. Ullrich wrote in his blog on Eurosport that “everyone can make [...]