US Anti-Doping Agency

Armstrong refuses to play ball with drug agency

22 Feb 2013

Following his admission, Usada offered Armstrong an opportunity to come forward and tell what he knows about doping in cycling and provide details about how he cheated and was able to avoid...

Sports Digest, February 8, 2013

8 Feb 2013

European champions Chelsea revealed yesterday they are to play friendly matches in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia during a pre-season soccer tour of Asia in July this year.

Usada chief Travis Tygart accuses Lance Armstrong of lying to Oprah

27 Jan 2013

Travis Tygart said in an excerpt of an interview with the CBS network that Armstrong failed to tell Winfrey the truth about several key points over doping - including a claim that he raced drug-...

Sports Digest, January 21, 2013

21 Jan 2013

Former US Anti-Doping Agency chief Terry Madden said that Lance Armstrong did offer Usada a donation in 2004, contrary to the shamed cyclist's claim in a confessional TV interview.

Disgraced Lance Armstrong ready for Oprah TV grilling

15 Jan 2013

As days of preparations dwindled to hours before his blockbuster interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong went out for a training run and then retreated behind the stone walls of his compound...

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Death threats for man in charge of Armstrong doping investigation

Travis Tygart says he spent years probing the biggest doping scheme in sports history, and received death threats, including one chilling warning that he would get a bullet to his head.

Pat McQuaid says Greg LeMond move on UCI is a 'PR stunt'

Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond's claim that he should take over cycling's governing body to lead the sport out of crisis following the Lance Armstrong doping scandal is nothing but a...

Ian Thorpe 'happy' at demise of Lance Armstrong

Former Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe said he was "happy" at cycling star Lance Armstrong's downfall and congratulated the United States doping authorities who exposed the seven-time Tour de...

DOPING

Wada proposes doubling bans in wake of Lance Armstrong doping scandal

The World Anti-Doping Agency has sought to redefine its role as a sports watchdog in the wake of allegations of a doping conspiracy involving cyclist Lance Armstrong and has proposed doubling bans...

CYCLING

World Anti-Doping Agency ‘encouraged’ by UCI Armstrong ruling

Cycling’s decision on Monday to cast out Lance Armstrong left World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) chief John Fahey “encouraged” that sport’s biggest doping scandal was drawing to “a correct conclusion...

CYCLING

Armstrong admits 'This is a difficult time'

Lance Armstrong has admitted to "difficult" times since a report accused the shamed cyclist of being at the heart of the most sophisticated doping programme ever seen in sport.