Doping in Cycling

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— He is the world’s most famous cyclist, dominating his sport like no one before or since. Yet his reputation has been forever tarnished by a scandal that tore at the very fabric of professional cycling, pitting the sports elite against each other. — — Transcript Provided by YouTube: 00:00…

It’s not just football, basketball, Formula 1, golf, and baseball that have been canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, professional road cycling has taken a big hit too. At this time of year, most races take place across Northern Europe in many of the regions affected by the virus. As…

No one can stop you from skiing in jeans. And really, doing lots of other things in jeans. Here is an analysis, which no one asked for, of the appropriateness of wearing jeans for several selected sports. (Photo: Brendan Leonard) The bumper stickers about politicians skiing in jeans were first…

Rider Interview: Young Russian, Ilnur Zakarin, has been a bit quiet on the results recently, but with a new team, bike, coach and training plan, that is all going to change. Alastair Hamilton managed to catch up with Ilnur in Spain before he flew off to start the UAE Tour,…

Rider Interview: Young Russian, Ilnur Zakarin, has been a bit quiet on the results recently, but with a new team, bike, coach and training plan, that is all going to change. Alastair Hamilton managed to catch up with Ilnur in Spain before he flew off to start the UAE Tour,…

The bumper stickers about politicians skiing in jeans were first created more than a decade ago, but skiing in jeans has a much longer history than that. Whether or not it’s a faux pas is arguably in the eye of the beholder (or the wearer), and the fact is, no…

View photos British Sky cycling team manager Nicolas Portal speaks to journalists at the end of the 1725 km eighteenth stage of the 100th edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 18 2013 between Gap and AlpedHuez French Alps AFP PHOTO JOEL SAGET Photo credit should read…

AEmbed from Getty Images Nicolas Portal, the easygoing hardworker who was behind the wheel of the team car for all of Chris Froome’s grand tour wins died aged 40 at home in Andorra. Born in 1979 in Auch in southwestern France, Portal got a mountain bike aged 14 and joined…

Lance Armstrong and Greg Lemond are the only Americans to ever win (or win with an asterisk) the Tour de France multiple times. Lemond raised the cup in 1986, 1989 and 1990. Armstrong did so years later, and four years longer — from 1999 through 2005. While these cycling heroes…