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Cycling: Armstrong faces two new lawsuits

March 1, 2013 18:45
Lance Armstrong was facing two more lawsuits on Friday spawned by his admission that all seven of his Tour de France victories were fueled by banned drugs. The Nebraska-based Acceptance Insurance Company sued Armstrong and Tailwind Sports Corporation claiming he committed fraud by concealing his use of performance enhancing drugs during the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Tours.

Cycling: Armstrong faces two new lawsuits

March 1, 2013 17:31
Lance Armstrong was facing two more lawsuits on Friday spawned by his admission that all seven of his Tour de France victories were fueled by banned drugs. The Nebraska-based Acceptance Insurance Company sued Armstrong and Tailwind Sports Corporation claiming he committed fraud by concealing his use of performance enhancing drugs during the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Tours.

Cycling: Race on to succeed Wiggins in Paris-Nice

February 28, 2013 22:15
The absence of 2012 winner Bradley Wiggins from the field means the race is wide open to emerge triumphant at this year's Paris-Nice, which gets underway on Sunday. This will be the 71st edition of the Race to the Sun, which marks the start of the European cycling season and provides a hint of what might be to come on the Tour de France before attentions turn towards the spring classics.

Cycling-French doping agency will do Tour de France testing

February 28, 2013 12:01
PARIS, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) has agreed to carry out testing at the Tour de France in June. The AFLD said in a statement on Thursday the UCI (International Cycling Union) had guaranteed "information on the whereabouts of the riders and their biological profile data in order to carry out random tests". Two weeks ago the AFLD said it would not carry out tests on the Paris-Nice race that starts on Sunday, citing a disagreement with the UCI.

Cycling: US government joins Armstrong suit after talks fail

February 22, 2013 15:00
The US government joined a lawsuit Friday alleging doping-disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong defrauded former sponsor US Postal Service. The government filing in federal court to join a lawsuit filed by Floyd Landis, himself an admitted dope cheat who lost the 2006 Tour de France crown because of doping, came after Armstrong and US lawyers could not reach a deal over damages issues.

US government to join lawsuit against Armstrong

February 22, 2013 14:16
The US government decided Friday to join a doping lawsuit filed by one of Lance Armstrong's former teammates alleging that the disgraced cycling champion defrauded government sponsors. NBC News and the Wall Street Journal reported the government will add its weight to the suit and claim that Armstrong defrauded tax-payers by using performance-enhancing drugs while on the state-funded US Postal Service team.

Cycling: Armstrong refuses to cooperate with USADA

February 20, 2013 17:00
Lance Armstrong said Wednesday that he will not cooperate with a US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) investigation into dope cheats in cycling but would be willing to help other anti-doping inquiries. The move greatly diminishes Armstrong's chances of having his life ban from World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-sanctioned sport reduced even as it forces USADA to move ahead without his help in looking into others involved in doping.

Cycling: Tour organisers unveil fun fest for centenary race

February 19, 2013 12:46
Organisers of the Tour de France unveiled plans on Tuesday a series of celebrations to mark the 100th edition of the world's most famous bicycle race later this year. "We are overflowing with projects," said race director Christian Prudhomme. The race which starts for the first time in Corsica on June 29 and runs until July 21, will take in some of France's most famous landmarks such as the Chateaux de Versailles as well as Mont Blanc, Mont Saint-Michel and the Loire region which are renowned for their chateaux.

Cycling: Katusha's return swells Paris-Nice, Criterium

February 19, 2013 10:16
Katusha's successful appeal to be reintegrated into cycling's World Tour means 23 teams instead of the usual 22 will line up for the Paris-Nice and Criterium du Dauphine races, organisers ASO announced on Tuesday. "We aren't going to leave a team by the side of the road," Christian Prudhomme, director of the two stage events as well as the Tour de France, told AFP. Katusha are back in cycling's top league after overturning their original exclusion from the circuit on appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Cycling: Froome wins Tour of Oman

February 16, 2013 14:31
Chris Froome of Britain won the Tour of Oman on Saturday, last year's Tour de France runner-up beating two previous winners of cycling's blue riband, Alberto Contador and Cadel Evans. The Sky star, who took possession of the leader's red jersey on Thursday, had a 27 second advantage over Spain's Contador in the overall standings with Australia's Evans 39s away in third. Saturday's sixth and final stage, a 144km ride from Hawit Nagam park in the south of the emirate to Muscat along the Matrah corniche, was won by France's Nacer Bouhanni.
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