Cycling: Zabel admits to doping
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German cyclist Erik Zabel becomes the latest cyclist to admit to using banned blood booster EPO while competing for Telekom in the 1990s.
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Tyler Hamilton, who won a gold medal in the time trial in Athens, is suspected of receiving illegal performance-enhancing blood transfusions.
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Reigning Olympic 100-meter champion Justin Gatlin learns last night he received a four-year competition ban for a 2006 positive test for testosterone, likely ending his career.
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Cyclingâs crackdown on doping, and the retirement of Lance Armstrong in 2005, have caused teams to change their strategies and opened up the competition for the yellow jersey.
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OLYMPIC gold medallist Tyler Hamilton, who is under investigation for blood doping, has been fired by his Swiss pro cycling team. The Swiss-based International Cycling Union (UCI) said today the Phonak team
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Bjarne Riis became the first Tour de France winner to admit using performance-enhancing drugs to win the sport's premier race, further eroding cycling's credibility after a series of doping confessions
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Cyclist Tyler Hamilton, who recently completed a two-year doping ban, signed a one-year contract with the Tinkoff Credit Systems team for the 2007 season, the team said yesterday.
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Floyd Landis will be stripped of his Tour de France crown and banned from the sport for two years for testing positive for synthetic testosterone after an arbitration panel yesterday affirmed the finding by the US Anti-Doping Agency.
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Il tedesco Erik Zabel (Milram) ha vinto in volata la 21/a e ultima tappa della Vuelta. La vittoria f...
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ROME -- Former Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso received a maximum two-year doping penalty Friday from the Italian cycling federation.
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Alexander Vinokourov tests positive for blood doping after winning Saturday's Tour de France time-trial.
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Olympic time-trial champion Tyler Hamilton, captain of Switzerlandâs Phonak cycling team, has denied any wrongdoing after reportedly failing two doping tests in less than a month.
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Olympic time trial champion Tyler Hamilton has been suspended by his Phonak team after failing a dope test. The American, who tested positive for blood doping at the Olympics and the Tour of Spain, is waiting for the results of his &quot;B&quot; samples.
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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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Former Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso received a maximum two-year doping penalty Friday from the Italian cycling federation.
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THE GAZETTE. Cyclist Tyler Hamilton gets to keep his Olympic gold medal because his backup blood sample was ruined in a botched lab procedure, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday.
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NEW YORK -- Two of Lance Armstrong's former teammates said they used a performance-enhancing drug when they were getting ready for the 1999 Tour de France, according to a newspaper report.