Doping

Team Sky Jiffy Bag doctor to break silence in “extraordinary new book”

Select committee that criticised Dr Richard Freeman in its report on doping to take "close interest" in book's contents

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UCI president David Lappartient says decision on Chris Froome case now unlikely until after Tour de France

World cycling chief underlines Team Sky star’s right to defend himself and says 1,500 pages of scientific analysis have been submitted on his behalf

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Court of Arbitration for Sport member predicts Chris Froome vs ASO legal battle over right to ride Tour de France

Sports law professor Jack Anderson also believes it will be “very difficult” for Team Sky rider to escape ban

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Bernard Hinault: “Froome is not part of the legend of the sport”

Five-time Tour de France champion insists Team Sky star should not be riding: ""t’s a real scandal. This has to stop.”

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British Cycling and UKAD launch partnership to tackle doping

Organisations say partnership will “shape the fight against doping in the sport”

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Lance Armstrong settles $100m USPS case for $5m

Floyd Landis happy to avoid the courtroom, Betsy Andreu less so

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Wada looking to use AI to catch dopers

Pattern recognition would allow anti-doping body to target athletes whose biological data was identified as suspicious

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road.cc recap: ten of our favourite stories this week

Some of our highlights from this week on two wheels...

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Mechanical doping: Criminal conviction for French amateur cyclist found using hidden motor

Cyril Fontayne receives community order after pleading guilty to fraud charges

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Sir Steve Redgrave: MPs should blame anti-doping rules, not Team Sky and Sir Bradley Wiggins

Five-time Olympic champion rower says rules need to be changed to eliminate grey areas

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UCI boss calls for investigation into Team Sky allegations

David Lappartient says claims in Select Committee's report are damaging for cycling, and also calls for speedy resolution to Froome case

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Wiggins hits back: “I’d have more rights if I’d murdered someone”

Former Team Sky rider responds angrily to House of Commons report - and says he has no idea what was in THAT Jiffy Bag

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Amateur cyclist who tried to outwit anti-doping testers ends up winning an Oscar (+ video)

Icarus, which saw Bryan Fogel swept up in heart of Russian doping scandal, wins Academy Award for Best Documentary feature

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Damning report from MPs slams Team Sky and Sir Bradley Wiggins

Commons Select Committee says "ethical line" was crossed in using drugs to enhance performance, including at 2012 Tour de France

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MPs’ report on doping to be published on Monday

Team Sky and British Cycling medical supplier says it has co-operated with Ukad and GMC investigations

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Team Sky and British Cycling facing new questions over testosterone patches

Reports that banned substance was ordered and not in fact delivered in error

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UCI reportedly considering giving Chris Froome a provisional ban

News comes as Giro d’Italia organisers call for guarantee that results of race be allowed to stand irrespective of any sanction

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Mechanical doping: French cyclist who used hidden motor in Cat-3 race receives five-year ban

Cyril Fontaine had been targeted for testing after dramatic improvement in results

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“Completely untrue” – Chris Froome dismisses report that he has accepted salbutamol ban

Italian newspaper the Corriere della Sera claimed Team Sky star had made deal for suspension of up to six months

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Floyd Landis: Chris Froome salbutamol case could cause Team Sky to implode

Former pro stripped of 2006 Tour de France win says “There’s no belief in that zero tolerance system any more”

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Romain Bardet says Chris Froome should not race until salbutamol issue resolved

“I can’t really see how Froome can race as if nothing was going on," says AG2R-La Mondiale rider

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Lotto-Soudal’s Tim Wellens says cyclists using inhalers are cheating

Belgian rider who abandoned Tour de France rather than take drugs under TUE says rules should be black and white, not grey

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11 things we’ve learned this week

On our return to reality after the festive season, we round up some of the most intriguing, though-provoking and sometimes amusing cycling-related talking points of the new year we’ve covered so far…

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‘I prefer chemical doping to mechanical doping’ says Riccardo Ricco

He’s currently keeping himself busy making ice cream for dogs…

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Top magistrates in France reportedly investigating motor doping

Specialist anti-fraud judges are said to suspect that some of cycling's biggest names may have used concealed motors

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David Walsh says he has lost trust in Chris Froome due to Salbutamol case

Irish journalist who authored book Inside Team Sky had "fraught, difficult" phone call with rider on Friday

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Chris Froome: “I haven’t broken any rules”

Tour de France and Vuelta champion responds after yesterday's news of adverse analytical finding

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Chris Froome faces ban and losing Vuelta title after failed drugs test

Team Sky star had twice the permitted level of anti-asthma drug Salbutamol in his system

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EIGHT cyclists caught doping at Vuelta a Colombia

Race in South America covered 12 stages and took place in August

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