Doping in Cycling

(Reuters) - The Tour de France gives riders many tests from gruelling climbs to furious sprints but it is the one for COVID-19 that could hold the key to victory when the world’s greatest cycling race starts on Saturday, says three-time champion Greg LeMond.FILE PHOTO: Cycling - The 104th Tour…

The US-based EF Pro Cycling team at the 2020 Tour de France start in Nice on Thursday. Stuart Franklin/Getty Images The heavy favorites to win the Tour de France, which starts Saturday, are Egan Bernal of Team Ineos Grenadiers and Primož Roglič of Team Jumbo-Visma.No one's really talking about the…

LONDON (Reuters) - Iconic supercar builder and F1 team McLaren’s involvement in WorldTour cycling will end after just one year, the Bahrain-McLaren team announced on Wednesday, three days ahead of the start of the Tour de France.Lauched last December at it’s state-of-the-art factory in Woking, McLaren’s co-sponsorship of the former…

LONDON (Reuters) - The manager of German cycling team BORA-Hansgrohe has raised concern about COVID-19 testing ahead of the Tour de France after pulling his team out of the Bretagne Classic on Tuesday because of a ‘false positive’.BORA-Hansgrohe withdrew all of its riders from the race after one team member…

Cycling The start of next year`s Tour de France has been brought forward by a week to avoid clashing with the men`s road race at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics, the International Cycling Union (UCI) has said. The start of next year`s Tour de France has been brought forward by a…

The Olympics, which were postponed a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, run from July 23 to August 8, with the road races scheduled for July 24, 25 and 28.To avoid a conflict the Tour has been scheduled from June 26 to July 18.Tour de FranceMartin refuses to vouch for…

The name-change is a sponsorship move to support Ineos's new 4x4 vehicle, called the Grenadier.Tour de FranceMartin refuses to vouch for drug-free peloton24/09/2020 AT 08:53Rumours had been circulating that the name change was set to take place, and on Wednesday Ineos confirmed the news saying:"Team Ineos has today confirmed they…

Ryan Gibbons (Photo by David S. Bustamante/Soccrates/Getty Images) South Africa's Ryan Gibbons has won stage 1 of the first-ever Virtual Tour de France.The 25-year-old rides for NTT Pro Cycling and their four-rider line-up also included Reinardt Janse van Rensburg, Edvald Boasson Hagen and Rasmus Tiller.Twenty-three of the world's best cycling…

Charles Dumas, a 19-year-old freshman at Compton College, raised the bar on the high jump record on this date in 1956 when he became the first person to clear 7 feet, jumping 7 feet, 5/8 inches at the U.S. Olympic trials at the Coliseum.The breakaway height in the competition was…

Updated / Wednesday, 24 Jun 2020 10:22 Kanstantsin Siutsou in action at the 2017 Giro Belarusian rider Kanstantsin Siutsou has been banned for four years after he failed an anti-doping test in 2018, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said in a statement. The 37-year-old, who was riding for the Bahrain-Merida…