THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -The Vanansoleil-DCM cycling team says Dutch rider Johnny Hoogerland remains in intensive care with fractured ribs and chipped bones in his back after a crash in training and will miss the entire spring season. Hoogerland [...]

AIGLE, Switzerland (AP) -The International Cycling Union has defended a decision to reduce the number of blood samples taken in 2010 because of budget cuts, saying it had “no detrimental effect” on its anti-doping program. The UCI [...]

/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong’s public admission that he took performance-enhancing drugs will not change U.S. prosecutors’ decision to spare him of criminal charges, an attorney who oversaw the [...]

Bryn Lennon / Getty Images Federal investigators are investigating disgraced Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong for crimes including obstruction, witness tampering and intimidation, related to his previous criminal investigation, ABC News [...]

HERNING, Denmark (AP) -In the latest doping scandal to hit the sport of cycling since Lance Armstrong’s confession earlier this month, Danish rider Michael Rasmussen admitted on Thursday that he took performance-enhancing drugs for more [...]

/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong’s public admission that he took performance-enhancing drugs will not change U.S. prosecutors’ decision to spare him of criminal charges, an attorney who oversaw the [...]

PLYMOUTH, Minn. (AP) – Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond crashed his car in a Minneapolis suburb this week. A Plymouth police report says LeMond left the road Wednesday morning, hit a fence and shrubs, and then hit an embankment [...]

BERLIN (AP) – The International Cycling Union did all it could to stall its doping investigation into Lance Armstrong, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart said Wednesday. “At every turn, the UCI attempted to obstruct [...]

MADRID (AP) – A former cycling team director told a Spanish court Friday that he had allowed four-time Spanish Vuelta winner Roberto Heras and other riders to contact Eufemanio Fuentes, the doctor at the center of the Operation Puerto [...]

HERNING, Denmark (AP) -In the latest doping scandal to hit the sport of cycling since Lance Armstrong’s confession earlier this month, Danish rider Michael Rasmussen admitted on Thursday that he took performance-enhancing drugs for more [...]

Donna Ward / Getty Images Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen isn’t a fan of Lance Armstrong. “He’s kind of a douche,” the “Anger Management” star told Jay Leno on Wednesday’s “The Tonight Show.” [...]

(Reuters) – Dutch cyclist Tom-Jelte Slagter won the overall title at the Tour Down Under on Sunday for his first major victory as Germant sprint ace Andre Greipel claimed the final stage in Adelaide for his 100th career win. Slagter entered [...]

LONDON (AP) – Bradley Wiggins is convinced Lance Armstrong doped when the American returned to cycling in 2009 and claims he was robbed of finishing on the podium in the Tour de France that year. Armstrong has confessed to doping during [...]

/ BERLIN (Reuters) – German rider Grischa Niermann, who rode for the Rabobank team for 12 years, has admitted using banned substances to boost his performance, the Dutch cycling federation said on Monday. “Thanks to the people [...]

BRUSSELS (AP) – Cyclist Frank Schleck was suspended for a year Wednesday and will miss the Tour de France for using a banned substance on last year’s Tour. Luxembourg anti-doping authorities backdated the suspension, sidelining Schleck [...]

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, on trial for allegedly masterminding a doping ring in cycling, will not be obliged to identify any of the clients whose frozen blood was found in bags seized by police, the judge in [...]

George Burns / Reuters LONDON – A truth and reconciliation program is the “only way” to rid cycling of performance-enhancing drugs, and the sport’s governing body should have no role in the process, Lance Armstrong said [...]

HERNING, Denmark (AP) -In the latest doping scandal to hit the sport of cycling since Lance Armstrong’s confession earlier this month, Danish rider Michael Rasmussen admitted on Thursday that he took performance-enhancing drugs for more [...]

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, on trial for allegedly masterminding a doping ring in cycling, will not be obliged to identify any of the clients whose frozen blood was found in bags seized by police, the judge in [...]

George Burns / Reuters LONDON – A truth and reconciliation program is the “only way” to rid cycling of performance-enhancing drugs, and the sport’s governing body should have no role in the process, Lance Armstrong said [...]

LONDON (AP) – The World Anti-Doping Agency called the UCI “deceitful” Tuesday for shutting down its independent doping panel and said it won’t participate in an amnesty commission set up by the cycling governing body. WADA [...]

MADRID (AP) -The doctor at the center of Spain’s long-awaited Operation Puerto trial testified Tuesday that athletes from sports other than just cycling used his blood-doping services. Eufemiano Fuentes said the vast majority of those [...]

LONDON (AP) -Cycling’s governing body has disbanded an independent panel put together to review any involvement it had in the Lance Armstrong scandal, saying the American and global anti-doping agencies “refused to cooperate” [...]

MADRID (AP) -The first day of Spain’s long-awaited Operation Puerto trial ended without any new revelations about doping in cycling on Monday, as the presiding judge heard only legal arguments from lawyers instead of testimony from defendants [...]

BRUSSELS (AP) – The prosecutor of the Belgian cycling federation says Lance Armstrong’s former team leader, Johan Bruyneel, will not appear at Tuesday’s hearing to discuss his role in the doping scandal. Cycling federation [...]

/ BERLIN (Reuters) – German rider Grischa Niermann, who rode for the Rabobank team for 12 years, has admitted using banned substances to boost his performance, the Dutch cycling federation said on Monday. “Thanks to the people [...]

(Reuters) – Dutch cyclist Tom-Jelte Slagter won the overall title at the Tour Down Under on Sunday for his first major victory as Germant sprint ace Andre Greipel claimed the final stage in Adelaide for his 100th career win. Slagter entered [...]

/ (Reuters) – An attorney for Lance Armstrong said the disgraced cyclist will not meet the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s deadline for him to answer questions under oath, and suggested his client would rather participate in international [...]

/ MADRID (Reuters) – Alberto Contador is not planning to ride the Giro d’Italia in May and will focus fully on the Tour de France starting at the end of June, the Spaniard was quoted as saying on Saturday. “There will be [...]

AUSTIN, Texas – Lance Armstrong’s lawyers say the cyclist will talk more about drug use in the sport, just likely not to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that led the effort to strip him of his Tour de France titles. In a testy exchange [...]