Doping in Cycling

By Lawrence OstlereIt’s halfway through the stage, and Team Ineos have a problem. Geraint Thomas’s earpiece crackles with news from a team car behind: “We’ve run out of bidons,” he’s told. You know conditions are bad when the world’s most meticulous sports te…

The French public cant quite work out if it is a drought or something more like a curse but either way they just want it to end. For my generation, it is like an itch that you cant reach, Laurent Prince, a 55-year-old Parisian marketing executive, told me ar…

How does Egan Bernal's advantage change the dynamics heading into the final two stages? And what is the significance of Nairo Quintana's stage victory? The Tour de France has entered the Alps, and we just saw the first major battle that will build toward the…

Radu Razvan/Shutterstock England’s football fans know what it is to have their hopes raised and then cruelly dashed as they watch their team outplayed and outmanoeuvred in a sport they consider to be their own. For English fans, this recurring nightmare is a …

AS FAR AS live spectator sports go, the Tour de France has to be one of the strangest. For hours, thousands of enthusiasts line the route under a baking sun. Aficionados bring parasols, folding chairs and picnics. At last, there is action on the road. But it …

AS FAR AS live spectator sports go, the Tour de France has to be one of the strangest. For hours, thousands of enthusiasts line the route under a baking sun. Aficionados bring parasols, folding chairs and picnics. At last, there is action on the road. But it …

Black Swift Group LLC has appointed Tyler Hamilton as a managing director. In his new role, Hamilton will lead the firm’s investor relations efforts and become the director of Black Swift’s new professional athlete wealth advisory group. Hamilton is a former …

Jumbo-Visma GC riders Steven Kruijswijk, Laurens De Plus and George Bennett underwent anti-doping blood tests on their team bus just 45 minutes before the start of stage 18 of the Tour de France after a late surprise visit from CADF (Cycling Anti-Doping Found…

It’s sad to see there is just one Asian rider at this year’s Tour de France, Kazakh racer Alexey Lutsenko of the Astana team. This is despite the sport seemingly pushing so hard to become truly global, and to accommodate rising talent from minority cycling na…

The horrifying crash that defined the 2003 Tour de France and forever changed Joseba Beloki's career was the result of bad management, says Beloki's former teammate Jorg Jaksche. GAP, France (VN) Sixteen years ago, this town at the foot of the French Alps pr…