Doping in Cycling

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…

The first time I met Jonathan Vaughters, founder and manager of the U.S.-based cycling team now known as EF Education First, he had a secret. Actually, he had several secrets. It was August 2006, immediately after the Tour de France, and like every other spor…

Two Austrian cross-country skiers were hit with four-year bans on Tuesday in the latest installment of the Operation Aderlass investigation into organised blood doping. Dominik Baldauf and Max Hauke, who were found guilty by the Austrian Anti-Doping Agency …

Remember that decade of cycling dominance by Lance Armstrong? How about the yellow Livestrong bracelet frenzy? 20 years ago, Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France title. What followed was six more championships, establishing Armstrong as one of the gr…

Sommet 20km Twenty kilometres is a lot of suffering, and a lot of time to think and reflect, and three years later, when we passed under that banner again, I had retirement on my mind. I abandoned the race two days later - July 13, 1989 - on the 13th…

MURAT, France – Twenty years ago this month Lance Armstrong won his first of seven Tour de France titles and became a global icon overnight. Everyone knows the incredible story: He beat cancer and came back to win the preeminent bicycle race a record seven t…

MURAT, France — Twenty years ago this month Lance Armstrong won his first of seven Tour de France titles and became a global icon overnight. Everyone knows the incredible story: He beat cancer and came back to win the preeminent bicycle race a record seven…

PAU, FRANCE—Inspired by his yellow jersey, Julian Alaphilippe held off defending champion Geraint Thomas to win the only individual time trial stage of this Tour de France on Friday, a shock victory to raise French hopes that he could go all the way in yellow…

Floyd Landis sits on a tired couch in a half-lit living room in a mining-era bungalow in Leadville, Colorado, the highest city in America (elevation 10,152 feet). Sprawled around the former professional cyclist and 2006 Tour de France winner—a title he held f…

The Tour de France is again embroiled in a debate over what cyclists put in their bodies after Dutch team Jumbo acknowledged they were using a dietary aid believed to boost stamina. The team responded to questions from Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf by saying …