Stringer/Australia / Reuters AUSTIN, Texas – Lance Armstrong said he will answer questions “directly, honestly and candidly” during an interview with Oprah Winfrey next week. He will also apologize and make a limited confession [...]

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -The head of Switzerland’s anti-doping laboratory described as “nonsense” on Friday claims by U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart that he helped Lance Armstrong avoid being caught for doping. Lab [...]

Stringer/Australia / Reuters AUSTIN, Texas – Lance Armstrong plans to admit to doping throughout his career during an upcoming interview with Oprah Winfrey, USA Today reported late Friday. The interview, scheduled to be taped Monday and [...]

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -The head of Switzerland’s anti-doping laboratory described as “nonsense” on Friday claims by U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart that he helped Lance Armstrong avoid being caught for doping. Lab [...]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman says his organization has had no approach from cyclist Lance Armstrong that would indicate he is about to admit using performance-enhancing drugs. But Howman, [...]

While Lance Armstrong considers a confession to doping, according to a report in the New York Times, sport and cycling analysts theorize about the effects an apology would have on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport. His motives [...]

BOULDER, Colo. – They’ve waited for him to come into sight. Waited for a clean shot at a man slick as Teflon, as weightless as wind. Now is their chance to take down Lance Armstrong. And they’re coming for him, lawyers and all. Or [...]

BOULDER, Colo. – They’ve waited for him to come into sight. Waited for a clean shot at a man slick as Teflon, as weightless as wind. Now is their chance to take down Lance Armstrong. And they’re coming for him, lawyers and all. Or [...]

Eric Gaillard / Reuters Lance Armstrong is finally ready to talk. And Oprah Winfrey is willing to listen. But does he have anything new and important to say? He and his interviewer will look plain silly next week if Armstrong just belatedly [...]

BOULDER, Colo. – They’ve waited for him to come into sight. Waited for a clean shot at a man slick as Teflon, as weightless as wind. Now is their chance to take down Lance Armstrong. And they’re coming for him, lawyers and all. Or [...]

Lance Armstrong recently met with the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to explore a “pathway to redemption,” according to a report Wednesday night on “60 Minutes Sports” dealing with the investigation that cost the [...]

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) – Tour de France winner Andy Schleck said it is unlikely Lance Armstrong will fully admit using performance-enhancing drugs in his interview with Oprah Winfrey. The Luxembourg rider, in Australia for the Tour Down [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -Lance Armstrong has agreed to an interview with Oprah Winfrey and is to address allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs during a career in which he won seven Tour de France titles. According to Winfrey’s website [...]

Eric Gaillard / Reuters Lance Armstrong is finally ready to talk. And Oprah Winfrey is willing to listen. But does he have anything new and important to say? He and his interviewer will look plain silly next week if Armstrong just belatedly [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -Lance Armstrong has agreed to an interview with Oprah Winfrey in which he is to address allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs during a career in which he won seven Tour de France titles. According to Winfrey’s [...]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) -The chief of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency tells CBS’s “60 Minutes Sports” that a representative for Lance Armstrong offered the agency a “donation” in excess of $150,000 several years [...]

Gail Oskin / Getty Images LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lance Armstrong has agreed to a rare televised interview with Oprah Winfrey that will air next week. According to a release posted on Oprah’s website on Tuesday, Armstrong will address [...]

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) -American sprinter Tyler Farrar will make his comeback from injury this month in cycling’s Tour Down Under, first event of the 2013 ProTour. Farrar hasn’t raced since September when he suffered concussion [...]

MILAN (AP) -The Russian team Katusha featuring top-ranked Joaquin Rodriguez has been denied a wild-card entry into the Giro d’Italia. Organizers RCS announced four wild-card entries on Tuesday for the May 4-26 race: Italian teams Androni [...]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman says his organization has had no approach from cyclist Lance Armstrong that would indicate he is about to admit using performance-enhancing drugs. But Howman, [...]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) -The chief of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency tells CBS’s “60 Minutes Sports” that a representative for Lance Armstrong offered the agency a “donation” in excess of $150,000 several years [...]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman says his organization has had no approach from cyclist Lance Armstrong that would indicate he is about to admit using performance-enhancing drugs. But Howman, [...]

Lucas Jackson / Reuters AUSTIN, Texas – The New York Times reported Friday that Lance Armstrong, who has strongly denied the doping charges that led to him being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, has told associates he is considering [...]

LONDON (AP) -A British newspaper is suing Lance Armstrong for more than $1.5 million after it settled a libel case over doping allegations, saying that revelations of the cycling star’s use of performance-enhancing drugs show the case [...]

The next time you see cyclist Bradley Wiggins on the town, “blind drunk,” celebrating his most recent victory, make sure you call him sir. He’s earned it. Wiggins capped a career-year that included becoming the first British Tour de France [...]

Jacques Boissinot / AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) -South African Olympic mountain biker and former age-group world champion Burry Stander was killed in a road accident while training near his home on Thursday. He was just 25. The South African Sports [...]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -South Africa’s Olympic committee says Olympic mountain biker Burry Stander was killed in a road accident while he was training. The sports body says in a statement on Thursday that 25-year-old Stander was killed in a [...]

AMSTERDAM (AP) -A Dutch newspaper claims that a team doctor with the former Rabobank cycling team played a central role in doping by its riders. The Belgian doctor, Geert Leinders, denies any involvement. The report in the NRC Handelsblad is [...]

/ LONDON (Reuters) – Bradley Wiggins has targeted winning the Giro d’Italia and defending his Tour de France crown back to back next year. Britain’s first Tour de France winner was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year [...]

/ PARIS (Reuters) – The Lance Armstrong scandal left a huge gap in cycling’s record books and further tainted the sport in a year when Britain experienced Olympic bliss in the wake of Bradley Wiggins’ Tour de France title. Armstrong [...]