Paris: Cycling's world governing body hit back at the US Anti-Doping Agency on Friday after being accused by USADA president Travis Tygart of failing to deal with the consequences of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.
Armstrong was banned for life and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by the International Cycling Union (UCI) in October after USADA found that he had taken performance enhancing drugs throughout his career.
The USADA report into Armstrong's doping also alleged that the UCI had not done everything in their power to catch the former rider, who later admitted to cheating.
The UCI pledged to look into the past and set up an independent commission to investigate the allegations, only to disband it weeks later in favour of a broader "truth and reconciliation process" that has yet to start....
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04:34 PM, Apr 26, 2013
The U.S. government filed court documents on Tuesday laying out its case against cyclist Lance Armstrong, who is accused of defrauding the Postal Service by taking millions of dollars in sponsorship money while flouting professional cycling rules by doping. The U.S. Department of Justice said in February it would join a whistleblower lawsuit brought in 2010 by Armstrong's former teammate, Floyd Landis, and on Tuesday filed its formal complaint. Armstrong...
10:07 AM, Apr 24, 2013
London: Britain's most successful Olympian Chris Hoy is to retire from track cycling having exhausted "every last ounce of effort and energy", the six-time Games gold medal winner said on Thursday. Hoy, 37, has decided against competing in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in his native Scotland. "I am officially announcing my retirement. It was not a decision I took easily or lightly, but I know it's the right...
04:49 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Paris: Lance Armstrong returned four samples with traces of banned corticosteroids in the 1999 Tour de France, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Wednesday, although the governing body added it did not handle them as positive tests. On Tuesday the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad published a copy of an alleged internal UCI memo which said a lawyer for the sport's ruling body had said the American's samples from the...
01:19 AM, Apr 18, 2013
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06:35 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Steffen Kjaersgaard, a team-mate of Lance Armstrong's at US Postal from 2000-03, will not face sanctions, despite admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs, Norwegian anti-doping authorities said on Monday. The Norwegian admitted doping between 1998 and 2003 at a news conference last October, one day after the International Cycling Union (UCI) confirmed it would not appeal against the stripping of Armstrong's seven Tour de France titles. However, Anti-Doping Norway said in...
06:55 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Austin: Lance Armstrong has asked a Texas court to dismiss a lawsuit by a Dallas promotions company seeking repayment of more than $12 million in bonuses paid for winning the Tour de France. SCA Promotions sued Armstrong and his manager Bill Stapleton in state district court in Dallas in February, claiming Armstrong committed fraud by using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour seven times. SCA paid Armstrong's team management company...
05:28 PM, Apr 07, 2013
The road races test the riders' endurance levels and they were tested to the limit owing to hot conditions at the Buddh International Circuit. ...
07:06 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Danill Fominykh bagged gold for Kazakhstan in the men's Under-23 time trial event. ...
08:56 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Lance Armstrong has been personally urged to make a full confession of all his involvement in doping by the founder of the lobby group Change Cycling Now. ...
09:31 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Jalabert, who won the Tour of Spain in 1995 and was world time trial champion in 1997, was on his bike when he was hit by a car. ...
11:23 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Sixteen-year-old Manorama rode the race of her life to win silver in the women's junior keirin. ...
08:01 PM, Mar 11, 2013
UCI chief Pat McQuaid feels that India could have done a lot more in cycling after getting the infrastructure in place. ...
02:49 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Britain's growing cycling culture has helped to globalise the sport while keeping it close to its European roots, Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme said. ...
12:13 AM, Mar 10, 2013
An eight-member Pakistani cycling team arrived on Saturday for the ongoing Hero Asian Cycling championships. ...
07:18 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Jashnjeet recorded her personal best of 2:41.024 to finish fourth while Yuraitis completed the race in 2:40.395 on the second day of the Championships. ...
07:23 PM, Mar 08, 2013
The Iranian contingent is still fuming over the late clearance of visa to its cyclists for the ongoing Hero Asian Cycling Championships as it feels the country is "losing out on qualification points" for the 2016 Rio Olympics due to the limited number of entries. ...
03:16 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Warrant Officer Hilton Botha was under fire for his slipshod handling of the initial investigation into the killing of Olympic track star Pistorius' girlfriend last month. ...
09:24 PM, Mar 07, 2013
The 40-year-old former rider declared to have used EPO, blood transfusions and cortisones from 1997 until end of his career. ...
05:13 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The row with the UCI has been especially bitter following the admission of doping by retired American rider Lance Armstrong. ...
04:57 PM, Feb 16, 2013
