Doping in Cycling

Retired Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi, winner of six Tour de France and 22 Giro d'Italia stages, has been suspended for two years for blood doping, the sport's governing body the UCI said on Saturday. The UCI has sanctioned the sprinter "for a period o…

PARIS: Retired Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi, winner of six Tour de France and 22 Giro d'Italia stages, has been suspended for two years for blood doping, the sport's governing body the UCI said on Saturday (Aug 24).  The UCI has sanctioned the sprinte…

Retired Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi, winner of six Tour de France and 22 Giro d’Italia stages, has been suspended for two years for blood doping, the sport’s governing body the UCI said on Saturday (Aug 24). The UCI has sanctioned the sprinter “for …

PARIS: Retired Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi, winner of six Tour de France and 22 Giro d'Italia stages, has been suspended for two years for blood doping, the sport's governing body the UCI said on Saturday. The UCI has sanctioned the sprinter "for a p…

Marcel Kittel has announced his retirement from professional cycling, saying: "I have lost all motivation to keep torturing myself on a bike."Related Articles The 31-year-old German sprinter terminated his contract with Katusha-Alpecin in early May, saying h…

Colombian cycling reached its zenith last month when pint-sized climber Egan Bernal became his country's first winner of the sport's greatest race, the Tour de France. Colombia is riding the crest of a wave of euphoria with the likes of former Giro d'Italia …

Bogota, Aug 23, 2019 (AFP) – Colombian cycling reached its zenith last month when pint-sized climber Egan Bernal became his country’s first winner of the sport’s greatest race, the Tour de France. Colombia is riding the crest of a wave of euphoria with the l…

On August 22, the Colorado Classic kicked off for the third consecutive year. But for the first time, it’s a women’s-only event, the sole Union Cycliste Internationale–sanctioned professional stage race of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. This is a signifi…

Although there remains a lot of work to be done in providing women's racing with the same opportunities as the men, the sport has come a long way in equality from its early days, when an openly chauvinistic attitude toward female athletes saw women riders tre…

Chris Froome has shown off the 2011 Vuelta España champion's red jersey he was awarded after being retrospectively declared the winner of the Spanish Grand Tour. Juan José Cobo – crowned the winner of the race in September 2011 – chose not to appeal against t…