MILAN (AP) -Fabian Cancellara is preparing once again to battle with Slovakian rival Peter Sagan as the two favorites go head to head in Sunday’s Milan-San Remo race. Cancellara won the season’s opening single-day classic in 2008 [...]

SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO, Italy (AP) -Vincenzo Nibali of Italy successfully defended his title in the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race while world champion Tony Martin won the concluding time trial on Tuesday. Nibali, who rides for Astana, finished [...]

LONDON, March 13 (Reuters) – Disgraced U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong has been personally urged to make a full confession of all his involvement in doping by the founder of the lobby group Change Cycling Now. Jaimie Fuller, who formed the [...]

MONTAUBAN, France (AP) -Former Tour de France sprint ace and Spanish Vuelta champion Laurent Jalabert has been taken to a French hospital after being hit by a car while riding his bike. Police in the southern town of Montauban said the 44-year-old [...]

SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO, Italy (AP) -Vincenzo Nibali of Italy successfully defended his title in the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race while world champion Tony Martin won the concluding time trial on Tuesday. Nibali, who rides for Astana, finished [...]

PORTO SANT’ELPIDIO, Italy (AP) -Defending champion Vincenzo Nibali took the overall lead from Chris Froome, while Peter Sagan won the penultimate stage of the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race Monday. Nibali attacked on a dangerous downhill [...]

Lionel Cironneau / AP COL D’EZE, France – Australian rider Richie Porte has won the Paris-Nice race after a dominant victory on the final time trial stage. Porte was in the leader’s yellow jersey overnight and needed only to [...]

TOULOUSE (Reuters) – Former cyclist Laurent Jalabert was seriously injured in a road accident on Monday morning, French police told Reuters. Jalabert, who won the Tour of Spain in 1995 and was world time trial champion in 1997, was on [...]

CHIETI, Italy (AP) -Joachin Rodriguez won the fifth stage of the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race Sunday with an attack on the short but steep finishing climb, and Chris Froome took the overall lead. Rodriguez, a Spaniard with the Katusha team [...]

Jeff Pachoud / AFP/Getty Images NICE, France (AP) – Sylvain Chavanel of France has won a bunch sprint to take the sixth stage of the Paris-Nice race on Saturday, while Richie Porte of Australia retains the leader’s yellow jersey. Chavanel [...]

Lionel Cironneau / AP COL D’EZE, France – Australian rider Richie Porte has won the Paris-Nice race after a dominant victory on the final time trial stage. Porte was in the leader’s yellow jersey overnight and needed only to [...]

PRATI DI TIVO, Italy (AP) -Tour de France runner-up Chris Froome made an early season statement with a victory in the difficult uphill finish of stage four of the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race Saturday. After his Sky teammates led him up most [...]

NICE, France (AP) -Sylvain Chavanel of France won a bunch sprint to take the sixth stage of the Paris-Nice race on Saturday, while Richie Porte of Australia kept the leader’s yellow jersey going into the final day. Chavanel edged out Philippe [...]

Jeff Pachoud / AFP/Getty Images NICE, France (AP) – Sylvain Chavanel of France has won a bunch sprint to take the sixth stage of the Paris-Nice race on Saturday, while Richie Porte of Australia retains the leader’s yellow jersey. Chavanel [...]

NARNI SCALO, Italy (AP) -Slovakian specialist Peter Sagan won the third stage of the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico in a sprint on Friday, showing off his finishing power in a rainy leg that drained other contenders. Mark Cavendish retained the [...]

LA MONTAGNE DE LURE, France (AP) -Australian rider Richie Porte counterattacked in the penultimate kilometer to win the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice race on Friday and take the yellow jersey from Andrew Talansky of the United States. Porte [...]

INDICATORE, Italy (AP) -Matthew Goss won a bunch sprint at the end of Thursday’s stage but Mark Cavendish retained the overall lead of the Tirreno-Adriatico after finishing fifth on the second day. Goss, who rides for Orica-GreenEdge, [...]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -Former Dutch professional cyclist Michael Boogerd, a spring classic specialist who once edged Lance Armstrong to win the Amstel Gold Race, admitted to using performance enhancing drugs for a decade during his career [...]

BRIOUDE, France (AP) -American cyclist Andrew Talansky held off six riders in a sprint finish to win the third stage of the Paris-Nice race Wednesday and take the race leader’s yellow jersey. The small breakaway group attacked late and [...]

OLVESTON, England (AP) -A 23-year-old British cyclist has died in a crash with a car during a local race in western England. Junior Heffernan was fatally injured in a collision with a vehicle during the annual Severn Bridge Road Race near Olveston [...]

CHICAGO (AP) – Leaders of the cancer charity founded by Lance Armstrong struck a determined, sometimes defiant tone on Thursday as they declared the organization will persevere in the wake of the cyclist’s admission that he used [...]

CERILLY, France (AP) -German rider Marcel Kittel won the second stage of the Paris-Nice race on Tuesday in a sprint finish against Elia Viviani, who took the overall race leader’s yellow jersey. Kittel completed the 200.5-kilometer (124-mile) [...]

PARIS (AP) – Lance Armstrong faces the prospect of losing his Legion of Honor medal after French officials said Monday they will start an inquiry following his admission that he doped during his Tour de France wins. Armstrong was awarded [...]

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) – Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco has lost his appeal against a 12-year ban for blood doping. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it dismissed Ricco’s appeal against the ban imposed by the Italian Olympic [...]

PARIS (Reuters) – The French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) has agreed to carry out testing at the Tour de France in June. The AFLD said in a statement on Thursday the UCI (International Cycling Union) had guaranteed “information on [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department joined a lawsuit Friday against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that alleges the former seven-time Tour de France champion concealed his use of performance-enhancing drugs and defrauded his longtime [...]

Spencer Selvidge / Reuters CHICAGO – The president of a cancer charity founded by Lance Armstrong insists that the organization will persevere in the wake of the cyclist’s admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs. The [...]

MINSK, Belarus (AP) -Sarah Hammer of the United States grabbed her sixth career gold medal and second of the week by winning the women’s omnium Sunday, while Rebecca Angharad James of Britain made history by winning the women’s keirin [...]

* Hammer beats Trott in omnium to avenge Olympic defeat * Botticher defeats Dmitriev to complete sprint double * James wins last-event Keirin for her fourth medal (Updates after final race) MINSK, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Britain’s [...]

MINSK, Belarus (AP) -Sarah Hammer of the United States grabbed her sixth career gold medal and second one this week by winning the women’s omnium event Sunday, while Stefan Botticher won the men’s sprint title and his second gold [...]