Backup test for Landis proves positive
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The Tour de France no longer calls him champion. His cycling team cut him loose.
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis will find out at 5 a.m. EDT Saturday whether his backup "B" sample tested positive for doping &#151; a result that could cost the American cyclist the title and lead to a two-year ban.
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Rarely does a backup drug test fail to confirm initial evidence that an athlete used a performing-enhancing substance, as it did in Marion Jones's case.
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A defective B test sample means that the American Tyler Hamilton will not be stripped of the Olympic time-trial gold medal he won in Athens in spite of an apparent positive result for blood doping on his first blood sample.
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A cow that tested positive last week on preliminary tests for mad cow disease has tested negative on the follow-up, the Agriculture Department announced.
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American Floyd Landis, who has been stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after failing a dope test, insists he has prevailed on the French roads without cheating.
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The pharmacy chain reported positive same-store results for November.
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis should learn on Thursday whether he has any chance of competing in this year's race.
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Kazakh rider Alexandr Vinokourov tested positive after winning Saturday's time-trial in the Tour de France, his Astana team announced today.
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Olympic silver medalist Hans Knauss tests positive for the steroid nandrolone after a World Cup race last month.
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A backup doping sample from the horse that won the show jumping gold medal at the Athens Olympics also was positive for a banned substance, the Irish rider's lawyer said Tuesday.
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GENEVA - Tyler Hamilton will keep his Olympic cycling gold medal because a backup drug test was inconclusive, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday.    Hamilton tested positive for signs of blood doping in the initial sample Aug...
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - Tour de France winner   Floyd Landis has been charged with a doping offense by the U.S.   Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) which he will contest, his attorney   said on Friday.
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Acorda announces positive clinical trial data.
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Floyd Landis stages the biggest comeback in Tour de France history and heads for victory.
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Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race, his Phonak team said Thursday.
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GENEVA -- Tyler Hamilton will keep his Olympic cycling gold medal because a backup drug test was inconclusive, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday.