MADRID, Nov 23, 2011 (AFP) – Spanish medical doctor Eufemiano Fuentes and six others will go on trial over a doping scandal that rocked world cycling in 2006, said a [...]

TOULOUSE, France, Nov 22, 2011 (AFP) – Disgraced Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco on Tuesday received a two-month suspended sentence and a 3,000-euro fine from a French court for having taken [...]

PARIS, Nov 22, 2011 (AFP) – French cyclist Jeannie Longo, a 59-time national and former Olympic champion, will not face any disciplinary proceedings after missing three random drugs tests, an [...]

GRENOBLE, France, Oct 26, 2011 (AFP) – The husband of French cycling legend Jeannie Longo, Patrice Ciprelli, was celebrating Wednesday after a French court annulled his French Cycling Federation (FFC) [...]

MOSCOW, Oct 26, 2011 (AFP) – Russia’s cycling federation on Tuesday fined star racer Alexander Kolobnev just $1,700 and ordered no suspension after his disqualification from the 2011 Tour de [...]

PARIS, Oct 24, 2011 (AFP) – The prosecutor in a computer hacking case against Floyd Landis on Monday called for an 18-month suspended prison sentence for the disgraced American cyclist. [...]

Joe Papp, a 36-year-old former American pro cyclist, was hit with an eight-year competition ban Friday by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for his role in distributing banned drugs. The [...]

ROME, Oct 12, 2011 (AFP) – Italy team boss Paolo Bettini, a former world champion, is under investigation by the prosecutor in Padua for abuse of office. Bettini is accused [...]

ROME, Oct 12, 2011 – The Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Wednesday recommended a 12-year ban for disgraced cyclist Riccardo Ricco over an apparent self-transfusion. Ricco ended up in hospital [...]

ROME, Oct 7, 2011 (AFP) – Italian cycling federation chiefs have put the brakes on Alessandro Petacchi’s hopes of an Olympic swansong in London next year, a day after the [...]