Doping

“We do not have a doping problem”: Tadej Pogačar’s agent opposes “stupid” plans to monitor riders’ power data, insisting cycling “now has credibility”

Alex Carera and others say the use of a ‘power data passport’ will “create only problems”, though the International Testing Agency has sought to assuage these concerns, suggesting the voluntary trial could become mandatory protocol over time

Cycling doping cases fall, but anti-doping group warns of “grey areas” and “increased medicalisation”

The MPCC also say they're concerned by doping in the lower professional and amateur divisions

Ex-doper turned OnlyFans creator arrested for possession of counterfeit banknotes

Andrea Piccolo, who last rode for EF Education First in 2024, was also charged with possession of an offensive weapon

The Gran Fondo doping curse strikes again: 41-year-old amateur cyclist tests positive for steroids after Masters world championship win

American Matthew Clark has been provisionally suspended by the UCI after failing a drugs test immediately after winning the men’s 40-44 age group world championship time trial

Ineos head carer who quit Tour de France over suspected doping links understood to remain with the team

David Rozman was asked to leave the team at the Tour de France and has since worked remotely. An investigation into his contact with a disgraced doctor is ongoing...

“You’ve cheated the sport. F*** you”: Luke Rowe reveals he “flicked” and “rode through” convicted dopers in the peloton

"You're a scumbag, 160 riders and all of them treat you like shit which is all you deserve," the Welshman added, saying he wanted to "bully them out of the sport".

Ineos Grenadiers admit to using now-banned carbon monoxide rebreathing test – but team insist they did nothing wrong

The team denied using the test at the 2024 Tour de France, but admitted to using it earlier this year after The Times saw an itinerary confirming the use of the method, which is now banned

WADA to ban carbon monoxide rebreathers as a performance aid from 2026

The practice, which can be used to stimulate the production of more oxygen-carrying red blood cells, can still be used as a diagnostic method to measure blood volume

“I never want anyone else to go through the same thing”: Former pro cyclist details “psychological torture” of challenging positive doping test, as ban upheld despite UK Anti-Doping ruling “no fault or negligence”

Lizzy Banks' two-year battle to clear her name ended with the Court of Arbitration for Sport upholding her suspension

UCI to ban use of carbon monoxide in pro cycling due to “health side effects” – but says controversial rebreathing method can still be used “in a medical setting” to test riders’ altitude training progress

The governing body argues “the complete lack of knowledge about the long-term effects of repeated inhalation of carbon monoxide” justifies a ban, but says the testing process carried out by the likes of UAE Team Emirates and Visma-Lease a Bike will remain

Financial “reward” package for motor doping whistleblowers confirmed, as UCI commits to “eradicating technological fraud at the highest level”

The governing body’s approval of payments for motor doping information comes three months after president David Lappartient claimed hidden motors have the potential to “destroy cycling”

Is EPO making a comeback? Asia-based Irish cyclist banned for three years as blood booster found in doping sample after Astana development rider’s CERA positive

It was the performance enhancer of choice for Lance Armstrong and his contemporaries, but a recent spate of positive tests suggest EPO is enjoying a revival in cycling’s semi-professional and amateur ranks

UCI warns cheaters “it is impossible to slip through the net” as new inspection tool set to be used at Tour de France to combat motor doping

The governing body also says that 600 blood and urine samples will be taken during the Tour, with 400 collected in the month leading up to the race, in one of the “most comprehensive anti-doping programmes to date”

“I did not run away or strike an organiser”: Cycling film actor accused of motor doping denies any wrongdoing, while race director still “upset” following alleged incident

Through lawyers, Giovambattista Iera says he has "already been convicted by the press without any evidence", strongly denying that he cheated at Les Routes de l'Oise stage race or played any part in assaulting the race director

Miguel Ángel López handed four-year doping ban for “use and possession” of human growth hormone during 2022 Giro d’Italia

The mercurial Colombian climber, who was sacked by Astana over his links to alleged doping doctor Marcos Maynar, will not be able to return to competition until July 2027

Former cycling film actor accused of motor doping at French stage race dramatically flees as teammate knocks down race director with van

In a barely believable chain of events, it's emerged that Giovambattista Iera - a former elite cyclist and respected restaurant co-founder who counts Mark Cavendish among his Instagram followers - has been banned from his team for "intolerable behaviour"

David Millar promises to “change your opinion” and reveal “what goes on in pro cycling world”, after critics slam sports festival for “platforming a former doper”

The festival has responded saying that former national champion will be taking all questions, “no matter how difficult and searching they may be”

Wake up to (anything but) milk: Pro cyclists warned not to eat or drink dairy products at cyclocross race after positive doping tests

Both Toon Aerts and Shari Bossuyt have blamed their recent Letrozole positives on contamination while racing in Flamanville, Normandy, the site of Sunday’s cyclocross World Cup round

Former Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman banned for ordering testosterone for unnamed riders, as British Cycling “frustrated” that elements of case “remain uncertain”

An independent tribunal was “comfortably satisfied” that Freeman intended to make prohibited substances available to one or more of his athletes, as UK Anti-Doping handed him a four-year-ban from all sport

Former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman facing doping ban after declining to defend himself against charges

Freeman was charged by UKAD with two breaches of anti-doping rules after being struck off the medical register in 2021

Anti-doping rule change urged after cyclist tests positive because dying dog’s medicine got on her hands

US Anti-Doping Agency calls for reform of rules, arguing rider should not be named after no-fault violation

Near Miss of the Day 844: Driver insists cyclists who film motorists are asking to be hit

“You’re enticing people to hit you, aren’t you,” says close pass driver who was fined £100

Toon Aerts set to receive two-year ban for positive anti-doping test

Tearful Belgian cyclo-cross star hopes hair analysis will prove adverse result was due to contamination

French pensioner caught motor doping during hill climb

The 73-year-old aroused the suspicions of race organisers when he finished just three minutes behind the winner on the 10km-long climb

Italian amateur accused of motor doping after winning iconic gran fondo

“Italy, a country of envious people. I’m not a fool to cheat on live TV,” says 2022 Maratona dles Dolomites winner Stefano Stagni

Miguel Angel Lopez being investigated as part of doping probe in Spain

Astana Qazaqstan has suspended Colombian rider while “circumstances of the case are clarified”

New Zealand national road race champion Olivia Ray admits to using banned substances

The 24-year-old said she took the substances not to win but to gain boyfriend’s approval

“Today’s heroes…”: Thibaut Pinot and Guillaume Martin question Rafael Nadal’s use of anaesthetic injections during French Open

“We see too many athletes using this kind of practice in recent weeks,” said the Groupama-FDJ rider

British Cycling and UK Anti-doping staff engaged in “potential wrongdoing” over anti-doping samples says WADA report

Global anti-doping agency says anti-doping protocols were broken in collection and handling of samples

15-time US cyclo-cross champion Katie Compton handed 4-year doping ban

42-year-old has been one of the leading women in the discipline for almost two decades