Former Tour de France Winner Admits to Doping
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Bjarne Riis, the 1996 Tour de France champion, topped off a week of doping confessions when he said Friday that he used performance-enhancing drugs from 1993 to 1998.
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A French newspaper claimed Friday that Lance Armstrong admitted to doping three years before the first of his seven Tour de France wins in 1999.
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Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich announces his retirement from cycling.
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Jacques Rogge defended professional cycling amid a flurry of doping allegations against high-profile riders, including Tour de France winner Floyd Landis.
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Lance Armstrong bristled Tuesday at a report that two former teammates admitted using performance-enhancing drugs, calling it "a hatchet job ... to link me to doping through somebody else's admission."
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LONDON: Former Finnish distance runner Martti Vainio has admitted taking drugs before the inaugural 1983 Helsinki world championships.
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Another American champion was hit with a shocking positive drug test Saturday &#151; Olympic and world 100-meter champion Justin Gatlin. Gatlin said he has been informed that he tested positive for testosterone or other prohibited steroids &#151; the same violation that, only two days ago, threw Floyd Landis' victory in the Tour de France into question.
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Cycling, having lived through a prolonged drug binge, is now trying to purge, leaving fans and riders to wonder whether the sport is making progress on getting doping out of its system.
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The Tour de France director says cycling needs a "revolution" after the latest drugs scandal.
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Floyd Landis attended the final stage of Spanish Vuelta on Sunday to support his former teammates, and again insisted he is innocent of doping.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The Belgian cycling association have handed out two-year bans to three riders caught up in Jose Landuyt affair, the vet who admitted selling performance-enhancing drugs.
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A former New Orleans school board president who ran as a corruption fighter pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking more than $100,000 in bribes to help an unidentified businessman win school contracts for his employer.
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Two of Lance Armstrong's former team   mates have admitted taking performance-enhancing drugs while   preparing for the 1999 Tour de France, the New York Times   reported on Tuesday.
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PARIS -- Tour de France chief Patrice Clerc said he considers Floyd Landis a cheater who has discredited cycling's showcase race.
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Bjarne Riis, the 1996 Tour de France winner, admitted on Friday he used performance-enhancing drugs during his career.
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Floyd Landis, who tested positive for the banned male hormone testosterone during his 2006 Tour de France triumph, has been found guilty of doping by a U.S. arbitration panel, cycling's governing body said on Thursday.
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After 18 months of leaks, slurs and broken reputations the biggest doping scandal in sports history took its most dramatic twist yesterday when the man at the centre of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative investigation claimed he had devised and