Doping in Cycling

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…

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…