Doping in Cycling

BRUSSELS (AP) Former Olympic cycling champion Alexandre Vinokourov and fellow rider Alexandr Kolobnev could face up to six months in jail after being accused of fixing the result of the 2010 Liege-Bastogne-Liege classic race. Both riders have denied accusati…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Former Olympic cycling champion Alexandre Vinokourov and fellow rider Alexandr Kolobnev could face up to six months in jail after being accused of fixing the result of the 2010 Liege-Bastogne-Liege classic race. Both riders have denied accusa…

BRUSSELS (AP) Former Olympic cycling champion Alexandre Vinokourov and fellow rider Alexandr Kolobnev could face up to six months in jail after being accused of fixing the result of the 2010 Liege-Bastogne-Liege classic race. Both riders have denied accusati…

Felice Gimondi was the greatest Italian cyclist of the 1960s and 1970s and is considered one of cyclings foremost competitors of the 20th century, one of only seven cyclists to have won all three Grand Tours. Gimondi who has died aged 72 from a heart attack …

Gimondi was perhaps unfortunate in that the peak of his career coincided with that of Eddy Merckx, arguably the greatest competitor cycling has seen. So often was he destined to finish second to the Belgian that the Italian press dubbed Gimondi "the eternal r…

Felice Gimondi Born: September 29th, 1942; Died: August 16th, 2019 Felice Gimondi, who has died of a heart attack aged 76, was one of Italys greatest cycling champions of the postwar era, a precociously young winner of the Tour de France who was widely view…

Berlin, Aug 28, 2019 (AFP)  Jan Ullrich, winner of the 1997 Tour de France, has been fined for attacking an escort in a Frankfurt hotel room in August of 2018. In a statement, the state prosecutor in Frankfurt said without naming the accused that a former Ge…

A disgraced former Tour de France winner has been fined for attacking a Congolese escort in a Frankfurt hotel room. Jan Ullrich, 45, was told to pay 7,200 (£6,500) on suspicion of bodily harm and attempted duress after an incident in a Frankfurt hotel room o…

Ullrich has struggled with a drugs and alcohol problem. (AFP pic) BERLIN: Disgraced former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich has been fined for attacking an escort in a Frankfurt hotel room, it emerged Wednesday. In a statement, the state prosecutor in Fran…

Back in May, just prior to the Amgen Tour of California, I had a memorable conversation with Australian Nathan Haas about a number of topics. Some were timely, such as his season to that point, and teammate Marcel Kittels announcement that he was breaking hi…