USADA

The potential fallout from Lance Armstrong’s confessional interview with Oprah Winfrey is almost too much to comprehend; the retaliations, the potential legal actions, the possible out-of-court settlements, further revelations of complicity to come… What’s clear though is that Read More

Something of a standoff has developed between the International Cycling Union (UCI) and the independent commission it established (the UCIIC) to investigate the culture of doping in the sport. Whilst the UCIIC is adamant that an amnesty for those ready to admit to past Read More

According to the New York Times Lance Armstrong may be on the verge of publicly confessing all. Accused, along with his US Postal Service team, by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) of running ‘…the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme Read More

The UCI has confirmed that it will sanction the USADA report into doping by Lance Armstrong and effectively wipe him from the (positive) history of the sport.  In a statement they said, ‘It (the UCI) will not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and it will recognise the Read More

RadioShack Nissan Trek have announced that they are formally ending their collaboration with General Manager Johan Bruyneel as a result of the United States Anti-doping Agency (USADA) report into the Lance Armstrong and the USPS Team drugs investigation. Thanking Bruyneel Read More

We have only just begun to see the fallout from the case brought by the United States Anti-doping Agency (USADA) against Lance Armstrong; when you shake a sport – any sport – this hard a depressingly large number of things have a tendency to fall out of the tree. But with the Read More

As the latest chapter in the Lance Armstrong doping scandal unfolds today it looks like we could be on the brink of the greatest fall in sporting history; but then the Texan with his seven Tour de France titles, legion of fans, and huge business and charity empire has so much Read More

As if the UCI/Armstrong/USADA case could get any more convoluted, a Swiss court has found former Tour de France winner Floyd Landis guilty of defamation against the International Cycling Union after claims he made during a German TV interview back in 2010 regarding payments for Read More