MOUDON, Switzerland (AP) _ World cycling's top officials will stop the biggest names in the sport from competing if they are found to have committed doping offences. UCI president Pat McQuaid met Friday with Tour de France director Christian Prudhom ...

ROME (AP) _ Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso faces doping allegations after the Italian Olympic Committee reopened its investigation into the Spanish doping scandal. CONI summoned Basso on Tuesday to a doping hearing May 2 on charges of having used ...

Tour de France champion Floyd Landis renewed his attack Tuesday on the credibility of the French lab that conducted follow-up tests on his backup urine samples and reportedly found traces of synthetic testosterone. ``If it's going to be objective, t ...

BERLIN (AP) _ Jan Ullrich has denied any wrongdoing despite his DNA sample being matched last week to blood bags seized in a Spanish doping scandal. Ullrich retired from cycling on Feb. 26, 10 months after his name surfaced in Operation Puerto, whic ...

Floyd Landis' camp praised French Sports Minister Jean-Francois Lamour for requesting a postponement of next week's hearing by the country's anti-doping agency. Landis, whose urine sample for a Tour de France stage was found to contain elevated testo ...

Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has been called to a hearing by the French anti-doping agency to determine whether he can race again in France. Landis, who tested positive for elevated testosterone levels during last year's Tour, did not immediate ...

American cyclist Tyler Hamilton, who recently completed a two-year doping ban, has signed a one-year contract with a new Italian-Russian team. Hamilton is joining the Tinkoff Credit Systems team for the 2007 season, the team said Friday. ``We believe ...

A retired medical doctor and friend of FloydLandis is expanding his defence of the cyclist, contending adetailed analysis of documents shows the Tour de France champion didnot have a positive drug test after all. Dr. Arnie Baker made the case in a s ...

World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound defended the French lab whose credibility is under scrutiny for its handling of Floyd Landis' samples during the Tour de France. Pound, a Montreal lawyer, said Wednesday the case against the American cycl ...

The French anti-doping lab that tested American cyclist Floyd Landis' urine samples made an ``administrative error'' when reporting its findings on his backup ``B'' sample, the French newspaper Le Monde reported Wednesday. The newspaper cited unnamed ...