Tour de France

Baseball players say they want to clean up the game

2013-06-15 12:45:00

SEATTLE — When cyclist Lance Armstrong was found to have used performance-enhancing drugs last fall, he was publicly disgraced, stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from the sport for life. When outfielder Melky Cabrera tested...

MLB drug scandal: Baseball still can't clean up its drug act

2013-06-07 09:39:00

Bud Selig, baseball's commissioner, declared the game's steroid era "clearly a thing of the past" and the use of banned performance-enhancing substances "virtually nonexistent." It was January 2010, and former home run champion Mark McGwire had just...

Nike breaks ties with Livestrong months after Armstrong split

2013-05-28 09:49:00

A few months after severing its relationship to tainted cyclist Lance Armstrong, athletics gear giant Nike has dissolved its ties to Livestrong Foundation, the cancer charity he founded in 1997. In a statement Tuesday, officials at Livestrong –...

Tejay van Garderen wins Amgen Tour of California

2013-05-20 00:00:00

SANTA ROSA — Tejay van Garderen rode his bicycle into a hotel meeting room Sunday as if he were corralling a bucking bronco. He reared the cycle up on its back wheel and slammed it down during a well-earned and well-deserved celebration. Van...

Leopold Konig wins seventh stage of Tour of California

2013-05-18 18:21:00

DANVILLE, Calif. — Leopold Konig of the Czech Republic won the seventh stage of the Tour of California in a mountaintop finish Saturday, and American Tejay van Garderen finished third to keep the overall lead for the third straight day. Konig,...

Amgen Tour of California starts Sunday in Escondido

2013-05-11 15:30:00

ESCONDIDO — The eighth Amgen Tour of California begins at 11:15 a.m. Sunday in Escondido, and for the first time the largest cycling stage race in the United States is traveling from south to north. The 750-mile trip will end May 19 in Santa Rosa....

Cycling tries to put doping in the past

2013-05-10 17:50:00

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — They're trying. The cyclists and team managers participating in the eighth Amgen Tour of California gathered Friday at City Hall to speak about the future of the sport. Not the past. Please, not the past. At least there was...

Lance Armstrong scandal creates a mess in Spain

2013-05-03 11:41:00

The Lance Armstrong doping scandal continues to reverberate through Spain, where authorities have launched an investigation into several figures allegedly linked to the American cyclist. Prosecutors are looking at Spanish citizens mentioned in the U.S....

USADA chief: Lance Armstrong can implicate others in doping scandal

2013-04-25 11:04:00

Travis Tygart, who is the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, told a French government senate hearing Thursday that he wants Lance Armstrong to provide information detailing the alleged complicity of cycling's governing body, the International Cycling...

Let these new bike helmets go to your head

2013-04-13 00:00:00

I should be dead, twice. The fact that I'm not — or even brain-damaged (I think) — is due to the helmets I wore while being hit by a car and slamming head-first into a mountain trail. By design, their foam shells cracked instead of my skull,...

Lance Armstrong pulls out of swimming event after FINA objects

2013-04-04 10:18:00

Lance Armstrong won't be returning to competition this weekend after all. The disgraced former cyclist, who has been banned for life from all events sanctioned by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, decided not to take part in three distance events in the...

Lance Armstrong on sponsors leaving: A $75-million day in losses

2013-01-18 19:45:00

A night after Lance Armstrong admitted to doping throughout the course of his athletic career, the disgraced cyclist spent the second half of his much-hyped television interview with Oprah Winfrey talking about fallout from the scandal. Armstrong, who...

A shepherd watches the pack with Yellow jersey Denmark's Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank/Ned) riding by during the 12th stage of the 94th Tour de France cycling race between Montpellier and Castres.

2013-06-18 17:45:24

A man walks past a stencil graffiti depicting cyclist Lance Armstrong in a yellow jersey, the traditional garb of the seven-time Tour De France winner, attached to an IV drip in Los Angeles, Calif.

2013-01-23 00:00:00

Lance Armstrong celebrates after winning a stage of the Tour de France in 2003. Robert Feldman, a leading researcher on the psychology of lying, says that in the case of Armstrong's deception, "he was pretty confident he could get away with it."

2013-01-18 20:48:31