Monday, December 1, 2008
Italian cyclist Marta Bastianelli appealed to sport's highest court Monday to overturn her one-year doping ban for testing positive for a stimulant. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Bastianelli, the women's world road race champion in 2007, has asked it to annul her suspension by the Italian Olympic committee (CONI) in October....
Monday, December 1, 2008
Danish cycling team Saxo Bank has lost co-sponsor IT Factory after the firm declared bankruptcy and said its chief executive had embezzled 500 million crowns ($85.06 million), manager Bjarne Riis said on Monday....
Monday, December 1, 2008
The Danish cycling team led by former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis lost one of its main sponsors Monday after software firm IT Factory declared bankruptcy and said its chief executive had embezzled 500 million kroner ($85 million). The team was previously known as CSC Saxo Bank, but was due to change its name for the 2009 season after IT Factory said it would replace CSC as a co-sponsor....
Monday, December 1, 2008
An Australian cyclist who had a two-year ban for alleged doping violations overturned on appeal has been awarded more than $260,000 in damages and costs in a defamation suit against a commercial radio station. Mark French won the libel action Monday, a Victorian Supreme Court jury finding that he had been defamed by comments on the Triple M radio program relating to the doping case in 2004....
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Lance Armstrong is set to start training camp this week without having subjected himself to drug tests by the anti-doping expert he teamed with and with no deal in place to post results of those tests online. When the seven-time Tour de France winner announced his comeback earlier this year, he partnered with renowned anti-doping expert Don Catlin to set up a testing program....
Thursday, November 27, 2008
The main sponsors of Germany's last remaining professional cycling team, Team Milram, have announced they are considering pulling out of the sport following the latest string of negative headlines....
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Spanish cyclist Manuel Beltran was banned Tuesday from competing in France for two years after he failed a doping test at the Tour de France. The ban takes effect immediately, said Pierre Bordry, the head of the French Anti-Doping Agency. The 37-year-old cyclist, a former teammate of seven-time Tour champion Lance Armstrong, tested positive for EPO at this year's Tour, and will be ineligible for......
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Former Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will have surgery on Monday to relieve a blockage in his nasal passage. The 25-year-old Spaniard said on Sunday that he will undergo a two-hour operation at Madrid's Ramon and Cajal hospital to relieve the blockage and remove a polyp on his vocal cord. The blockage stems from a May crash during the Giro d'Italia, which he won after winning the Tour in......
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Giro d'Italia champion Alberto Contador will undergo surgery on Monday to treat nose and throat problems, the Spaniard said on Sunday....
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Race organizers say the 2010 Tour de France will start in the Netherlands. The 97th edition of the showcase race will begin on July 3 in Rotterdam, which the Amaury Sport Organization said was chosen ahead of Utrecht, another Dutch city. "They both had the qualities to host a Grand Depart and the candidate's dossiers were of excellent quality," ASO, which owns the Tour, said in a statement......
