Doping in Cycling

Cycling offers a grand buffet of disciplines, from the narrow specialities of track racing to the diversity needed for the open road, mountains or the looney antics of cyclocross (to say nothing of artistic cycling or bike polo or trials riding). Road racing …

Welcome to your Daily News Digest. Here’s what’s happening today: Medical tribunal hears evidence that Richard Freeman researched testosterone on his laptop, Ineos signs Pan-American Continental time trial champ Brandon Rivera, Van Avermaet shakes up his off…

Dr Richard Freeman downloaded information from websites to his laptop about testosterone-boosting drugs a month before he ordered Testogel to be delivered to the British Cycling and Team Sky headquarters, a tribunal into his fitness to practice heard on Wedne…

As Stijn Devolder prepares to transition from pro cycling to the agriculture business, he gave an 'exit interview' with the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, revealing that he thought he had more talent as a stage racer than he did as a Classics rider. The tw…

Another full EUROTRASH Monday: Will the 2020 Vuelta a España climb the Col du Tourmalet? - Top Story. All the results and video from Flandriencross, World Cup Tabor, Gent '6 Days' and the Shanghai Criterium. Loads of other cycling news: The Vuelta in France, …

Book Review: Belgium: it's an odd place. A country put together from pieces other nations didn't really want, it seems resigned to an eternal identity crisis. But beyond this historic and political mess, there is a remarkable sporting story - cycling and the …

The Canmore Nordic Centre, 100 kilometres west of Calgary, was the site of the cross-country and biathlon events during the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, and it remains the base for both Canadian national teams. Its also where Beckie Scott is based: she skis …

As the former head coach of British Cycling and Team Sky Shane Sutton stormed out of a medical tribunal in Manchester on Tuesday after being accused of doping, Sputnik decided to take a look at cyclings long history of doping scandals.Sutton became enraged by…

Shane Sutton has been described as an habitual and serial liar, and a doper with a doping history ahead of his appearance at a medical tribunal in Manchester. The accusation against the former head coach of British Cycling and Team Sky was made by Mary ORour…

Italian sprint legend Mario Cipollini has undergone surgery after being diagnosed with a myocardial bridge a band of heart muscle that lies on top of a coronary artery, instead of underneath it, constricting blood flow. Gazzetta dello Sport reports that Cipo…