Two weeks after being cleared of doping allegations, Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso appears set to join the Discovery Channel cycling team. ``It's done,'' Lance Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France champion and former Discovery leader, was quote ...

A new book published in France on Thursday alleges seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and his entourage intimidated witnesses, including former teammate Frankie Andreu, in a high-stakes court case. The book ``L.A. Official'' by Pierre ...

Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich, still fighting doping allegations, has quit the Swiss cycling federation and is looking for another racing licence for next year. Ullrich said on his website Thursday that he was leaving Swiss Cycling because ...

Lance Armstrong assailed a new book going onsale in France on Thursday as ``another baseless attack'' againstthe seven-time Tour de France champion. The book by Pierre Ballester and David Walsh, who wrote ``L.A.Confidential: The Secrets of Lance Arm ...

Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso and his Danish CSC team ended their contract by mutual agreement Wednesday. ``After all that has happened, especially this summer, Team CSC and Ivan Basso have agreed to part ways,'' CSC manager Bjarne Riis manager s ...

Giro d'Italia winner Ivan Basso, looking to race again after the Italian Olympic Committee recommended that doping allegations against him be dropped, says he has been courted by Lance Armstrong's former team, Discovery Channel. ``They made me a conc ...

Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich accusedthe Swiss cycling federation on Saturday of implying thatinvestigations are proceeding against him in the Spanish dopingscandal. The 1997 Tour champion said on his website that he is not atarget of the ...

Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso is ready to race again after the Italian Olympic Committee recommended that doping allegations against him be dropped. ``Now my goal is to win races again,'' Basso said in sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport on Friday, ...

Defending champion Paolo Bettini of Italy wonthe Tour of Lombardy on Saturday for his 11th Pro Tour title. The 32-year-old Italian finished in six hours eight minutes sixseconds _ eight seconds ahead of runner-up Samuel Sanchez of Spainand third-pla ...

Floyd Landis rolled out key elements of his defence against doping charges in an online presentation Thursday, several months before the cyclist is to present his case to an arbitration panel in hopes of keeping his Tour de France title. Early Thurs ...