Doping in Cycling

Few activities have as vast a range of literature as cycling. There are books on the bikes themselves, in all their variety; books on where to ride; on riding technique; on the great and not so great races; on cyclesports heroes and villains; and much more. H…

"], "filter": { "nextExceptions": "img, blockquote, div", "nextContainsExceptions": "img, blockquote"} }'> Bjarne Riis returns to pro cycling, baggage and all, saying he's long turned the page on his past connections to doping. Bjarne Riis, who won the …

Embed from Getty Images Bjarne Riis is back, in a press conference today he and colleagues Lars Seier, the founder of Saxo Bank and Jan Beck Andersen, chairman and owner of Brøndby IF, a soccer club have bought 30% of the NTT Pro Cycling, formerly the Dimens…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) Bjarne Riis, the 1996 Tour de France champion who admitted to doping following his retirement from cycling, is back in the sport as team manager of NTT Pro Cycling on the World Tour. It marks the return of Riis to top-level men's cyc…

(Want to get the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Hello again, CyclingTips readers! It’s been a busy 24 hours for news from the racing world. Rohan Dennis revealed in an interview with The Adelaide Advertiser that hi…

Each time the Olympic Games roll around, it would seem that the glass is always more full than empty. The best-ever haul of medals from an Irish team came at the 2012 London Olympics six medals and, it would seem, there is a sense that the record will be brok…

"], "filter": { "nextExceptions": "img, blockquote, div", "nextContainsExceptions": "img, blockquote"} }'> While not one of the happier stories of the last decade, Lance Armstrong's dramatic downfall was one of the biggest in pro cycling. This story app…

Expectations for what would become known as Super Saturday had been high ahead of the evening session inside Londons Olympic Stadium.Jessica Ennis-Hill was the face of the Games and, having sat in gold medal position for almost the entirety of the heptathlon,…

"], "filter": { "nextExceptions": "img, blockquote, div", "nextContainsExceptions": "img, blockquote"} }'> Team Sky revolutionized the way the Tour de France was raced, winning seven Tours in eight years. The team garnered plenty of criticism for its budg…

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