Sports / Cycling

Cycling: Wiggins to continue comeback at Eneco Tour 12 Aug 2013 - 12:45 am

BRUSSELS, Brussels Capital Region: Last year’s Tour de France winnner Bradley Wiggins will be the star name on the start line of the...

Katusha suspends Zabel after doping admission 31 Jul 2013 - 12:14 am

BERLIN: Former sprint specialist Erik Zabel was suspended by Russian cycling team Katusha after he admitted to persistent doping during his cycling career....

French EPO report no shock to Armstrong 25 Jul 2013 - 09:11 pm

Deutsche Telekom rider Erik Zabel of Germany (left) jokes with team-mate Jan Ullrich of Germany during the Tour de France medical visit in...

Tinkoff ends sponsor deal, to launch own team 25 Jul 2013 - 09:09 pm

LONDON/COPENHAGEN: Russian entrepreneur Oleg Tinkov announced plans to set up a new cycling team yesterday after ending his sponsorship of the Saxo-Tinkoff group...

Probe reveals doping by Pantani and Ullrich at 1998 Tour 25 Jul 2013 - 02:59 am

PARIS, France: Italian Marco Pantani and Germany’s Jan Ullrich both used the banned blood-booster erythropoetin (EPO) during the 1998 Tour de France, a...

Armstrong slams US government lawsuit 25 Jul 2013 - 02:51 am

Cyclist Lance Armstrong is interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in Austin, Texas, in this January 14, 2013 handout file photo courtesy of Harpo Studios....

Brailsford wants Froome, Wiggins on 2014 Tour 24 Jul 2013 - 05:29 am

LONDON: Team Sky boss Dave Brailsford would love to see the last two Tour de France winners Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins lining...

Post-Armstrong, Froome’s win ‘will stand test of time’ 23 Jul 2013 - 12:46 am

Team Sky rider and leader’s yellow jersey holder Christopher Froome of Britain, winner of the centenary Tour de France cycling race, celebrates his...

The Briton can restore cycling’s reputation, says his father 23 Jul 2013 - 12:43 am

LONDON: Chris Froome’s father claims the newly-crowned Tour de France champion is the perfect personality to restore cycling’s battered reputation. Froome, 28, became...

Froome crowned Tour de France champ 22 Jul 2013 - 12:26 am

Tour de France 2013 winner Britain’s Christopher Froome smiles on the podium in Paris on the Champs-Elysee avenue, at the end of the...

Critics wrong to accuse Froome of doping, says Walsh 22 Jul 2013 - 12:22 am

LONDON: Chris Froome doesn’t deserve to be accused of winning the Tour de France by doping, according to the journalist who helped expose...

Froome on brink of Tour triumph; Quintana wins stage 21 Jul 2013 - 01:59 am

SEMNOZ, France: Chris Froome virtually sealed his maiden Tour de France title with yet another strong climbing performance in yesterday’s penultimate stage won...

Costa at the double as Froome retains yellow 20 Jul 2013 - 12:06 pm

LE GRAND BORNAND, France: Portugal’s Rui Costa claimed his second win of the 100th Tour de France yesterday as yellow jersey holder Chris...

WADA tells Sky to take Froome evidence elsewhere 20 Jul 2013 - 12:05 pm

LAUSANNE, Canton of Vaud: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has told Team Sky to send their evidence to other organisations after the British...

Britain’s Froome extends his lead 19 Jul 2013 - 03:52 am

Overall leader Britain’s Christopher Froome celebrates wearing the yellow jersey on the podium at the end of the 172.5km eighteenth stage of the...

Froome wins time trial to extend Tour de France lead 18 Jul 2013 - 04:50 am

Britain’s Christopher Froome celebrates his overall leader yellow jersey on the podium at the end of the 32 km individual time-trial and seventeenth...

Sky would give WADA data to prove their cyclists are clean 16 Jul 2013 - 10:03 am

ORANGE, France: Facing yet another barrage of doping questions after Chris Froome’s awe-inspiring victory up Mont Ventoux in the Tour de France, Team...

Cycling: Triumphant Froome extends lead 15 Jul 2013 - 02:24 am

LE MONT VENTOUX, France: Britain’s Chris Froome took another step towards yellow jersey triumph on the Tour de France with a second mountaintop...