Doping

Brailsford calls on Cookson to show strong leadership in war on drugs cheats

Team Sky boss says UCI need to “step up their game”

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Spanish court overturns Vuelta runner-up Mosquera’s doping ban

Former Xacobeo-Galicia rider reinstated, gets 2nd place to Nibali and stage win back

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‘Icon’ – Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong movie has a title

Movie based on David Walsh's pursuit of drugs cheat due for August 2015 release

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Welcome to the Grand Hotel Doping – but it’s not illegal

Slovenian establishment run by ex-pro cyclist offers altitude tents to athletes - banned in Italy, but not elsewhere

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Armstrong business associates agree conditional settlement in USPS case

The case would continue against Armstrong and Tailwind Sports

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Lance Armstrong loves adhering to a sporting ‘code of honour’ – but only if it’s golf

Likens his finest round of golf to his ‘effortless’ cycling

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Mauro Santambrogio, just back from a ban, fails another anti-doping control

Italian rider received reduced ban for 2013 Giro EPO positive for co-operating with authorities

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Vinokourov unhappy with media coverage – but Cookson warns Astana are ‘on a very short leash’

Astana general manager says his team have been ‘smeared’ by the press

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Brian Cookson defends Astana licence decision, says UCI must act within the rules

UCI president also calls on Astana sponsors and suppliers to help ensure Kazakh team races clean

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Danilo Di Luca testimony “most valuable ever received” in anti-doping investigation

Italian's revelations in 2009 said to have begun chain of events that brought down Lance Armstrong

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Brian Cookson: Astana decision due today or tomorrow

UCI chief tells Gazzetta dello Sport that report on Kazakh team will take account of alleged Michele Ferrari links

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Banned doctor Michele Ferrari “photographed at Astana training camp” last year

As WorldTour licence decision looms, Gazzetta dello Sport says Padua prosecutors snapped Ferrari talking with riders

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Brian Cookson says UCI to decide on Astana once Licence Commission reports

UCI president was speaking at Track World Cup in London where rider from Astana under-23 squad raced

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UCI to decide on Astana WorldTour licence within next week

Kazakh outfit and Europcar only two teams not confirmed as having licence for 2015 - decision by 10 December

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Stalemate between lawyers in Lance Armstrong whistleblower case

Judge will next week try and help parties overcome “impasse” over exchange of evidence

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Performance enhancing placebos?

Glasgow study indicates that merely thinking that you have doped may speed you up

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Vincenzo Nibali says he’s committed to Astana despite fifth positive test

Third rider from under-23 squad fails doping control

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Fourth positive test at Astana as U23 rider Victor Okishev fails doping control

Kazakh team's WorldTour licence is currently under review following earlier cases

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Budweiser gets better of Lance Armstrong as he abandons beer race

Banned cyclist gives up on four lap run after necking first beer

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WADA chief says drugs cheats shouldn’t go to jail

Sir Craig Reedie says dopers should face sporting sanctions, not criminal ones

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Three years in jail for doping under new German law to take effect next year

Up to ten years for doctors who supply

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Lance Armstrong pulls out of planned ride in Texas’s Tour de Gruene time trial

Injury to team mate leads banned cyclist to withdraw from unsanctioned event he last rode in 2008

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Former Team Sky pair Sean Yates and Bobby Julich join Tinkoff-Saxo

Bjarne Riis's teams also adds Daniel Healey and Patxi Vila to support staff

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Cyclo-cross riders reportedly linked to Belgian blood doping probe

Prosecutors recommend Dr Chris Mertens stand trial; files on 19 athletes, mostly cyclists, sent to anti-doping authorities

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Travis Tygart still hopeful Lance Armstrong will co-operate with USADA

Agency's CEO also says change at top of UCI following Brian Cookson's election is progress for cycling

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Roman Kreuziger’s lawyers insist he’s innocent as CAS confirms doping charges appeal

UCI looking to have Czech decision to acquit Tinkoff-Saxo rider on biological passport charges overturned

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UCI and WADA appeal Roman Kreuziger case to CAS

Czech Olympic Committee cleared Tinkoff-Saxo rider of biological passport charges last month

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Lance Armstrong to ride with USPS team mates – and young pros – at Gran Fondo Hincapie this weekend

Tejay van Garderen among current riders who will join banned for life Texan at former colleague's charity event

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USADA chief slams Thor Hushovd for silence after Lance Armstrong doping admission

"No hero," says Travis Tygart

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Jonathan Tiernan-Locke sees a future in cycling still

Banned rider wants to bring on younger cyclists and return to competition

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