Doping in Cycling

ARENBERG, France — An Israeli team made history in the Tour de France on Wednesday when one of its riders won a stage of the world-famous race. Australian Simon Clarke of Israel Premier Tech won stage five of the tour in a photo finish after a 157 kilometer (97.5 miles)…

Join me on my Tour De Jeux, starting with the official TDF game The Tour De France, the grandest race in professional cycling, started today. Across three weeks, 176 cyclists will ride 3328 kilometres (2068 miles) winding through France, Denmark, Belgium, and Switzerland, including the Alps and Pyrenees. As a…

American Tour de France winner Greg LeMond is being treated for Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia; "Fortunately it is a type of leukaemia that is not life-threatening or debilitating" Last Updated: 06/06/22 5:12pm Greg LeMond, pictured here in 2014, won the Tour de France three times Three-time Tour de France winner Greg…

Cavendish's 34 Tour de France stage wins leave him tied with the legendary Eddy MerckxOff a long, straight road in Alicante province, Mark Cavendish sits in a dusty valley, smiling with team-mates during a break in the day's training among the jagged hills and orange trees of eastern Spain. It's…

Police officers at the main entrance of the 'Clinica Universitaria La Sabana,' where former Tour de France winner Egan Bernal is hospitalized, in Chia, north of Bogota, on Jan. 24.DANIEL MUNOZ/AFP/Getty Images Former Tour de France champion Egan Bernal remained in intensive care on Tuesday after undergoing what his team…

Saturday 01 January 2022 10:00 am Chris Froome has won four Tours, all with Team Sky. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) Chris Froome may now have left serial winners Team Sky (now INEOS Grenadiers) but he is still hungry for a fifth Tour de France title. Here, Froome spoke to…

Leading technology provider will help power new women’s race to promote equality in cycling London, UK – 14 October 2021 – NTT Ltd., a global technology and business solutions provider, is today announcing its role as A.S.O’s Official Technology Partner to Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. The new race,…

Zoe Backstedt has won silver in the women's junior time trial at the Road Cycling Championships. The 16-year-old Welsh rider finished the 19.4km course in 25 minutes, 16.13 seconds which was 10.64 seconds behind Russian winner Alena Ivanchenko. "The Russian rode so strong," Backstedt told Eurosport afterwards as Ivanchenko pipped…

Annemiek van Vleuten has hinted that her Olympic cycling career may be over. The Dutch cycling star won time trial gold in Tokyo and also took home a silver from the road race in bizarre fashion after the peloton didn’t realise there was still a rider up the road. But,…

As a cycling follower you’re sure to be familiar with the Sagan standard, an aphorism coined by the American astronomer, Carl Sagan, which “illustrates a core principle of the scientific method and scepticism and can be used to assess the validity of a claim.” The Sagan standard, itself a rewording…