From the Court of Arbitration for Sport : The Court of Arbitration for Sport ( CAS ) has rendered its decision in the arbitration between the Union Cycliste Internationale ( UCI ) and the German cyclist Jan Ullrich & Swiss Olympic. The CAS has partially upheld the appeal filed by the UCI and has found Jan Ullrich guilty of a doping offence. As a consequence, Jan Ullrich is sanctioned with a two-year period of ineligibility starting retroactively on 22 August 2011. Furthermore, all results...Read Full Story
Following the detection of banned drug Clenbuterol in a sample he provided on the 21st of July in 2010, a rest day during the Tour de France, Alberto Contador was handed a (backdated) two-year suspension and all his results during that period - including a Tour de France and a Giro d'Italia, cycling's most prestigious races - will be disqualified.
The world of cycling has been split for nearly two years into those who believe the Spanish rider is innocent of deliberate doping and those who...Read Full Story
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
LAUSANNE, Switzerland
Sport's highest court is preparing to issue its verdict in the doping case of Alberto Contador, who could be stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said it would issue a ruling Monday on whether the Spanish rider was guilty of doping after testing positive for clenbuterol while winning his third Tour title.
Contador claims the positive test...Read Full Story
"This is bad for cycling." Johan Bruyneel Alberto Contador, the three-time Tour de France winner who tested positive for a miniscule trace of the banned drug Clenbuterol in 2010, has been found guilty by the Court for Arbitration in Sport and handed a two-year ban and will also be stripped of his 2010 Tour victory.
The ban will be backdated to the 25th of January 2011. As he was provisionally suspended for a period of five months during the initial investigation, he will be able to return...Read Full Story
Eurosport.com ASIA CAS hands 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich 2-year ban for doping links ... Washington Post LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Sport's highest court has banned 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich for two years and stripped him of his third-place finish in the 2005 race for a doping violation. Ullrich's suspension comes three days after CAS banned ... Two-year ban for Ullrich SkySports Former Tour Champ Jan Ullrich Has Results Voided by Court For Blood Doping Bloomberg CAS bans...Read Full Story
CBC.ca Ullrich banned 2 years for blood doping CBC.ca Sport's highest court banned 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich for two years on Thursday and stripped him of his third-place finish in the 2005 race for blood doping. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the 38-year-old German, ... CAS hands 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich 2-year ban for doping links ... Washington Post CAS bans 1997 Tour winner Jan Ullrich for 2 years Billings Gazette Former Tour Champ Jan Ullrich Has...Read Full Story
CBC.ca CAS bans Jan Ullrich for two years ESPN AP GENEVA -- Sport's highest court banned 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich for two years on Thursday and stripped him of his third-place finish in the 2005 race for blood doping. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the 38-year-old ... CAS hands 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich 2-year ban for doping links ... Washington Post Two-year ban for Ullrich SkySports Former Tour Champ Jan Ullrich Has Results Voided by Court For Blood...Read Full Story
Six-time Tour de France green jersey champion Erik Zabel says team Sky should put the majority of its resources behind Mark Cavendish and not general classification hope Bradley Wiggins at the Tour de France this year. Sky is set to enter the Tour with a ...
Once upon a time, they were rivals with Lance Armstrong. While Lance clearly was the superior athlete over Jan Ullrich when they met between 2000 to 2005, Lance was the underdog when he came back in 2009 to challenge Alberto Contador. Ullrich and Contador ...
Alberto Contador's Saxo Bank-SunGard team could be thrown off the World Tour after the Professional Cycling Council wiped the banned Spaniard's points from the team's 2010 and 2011 record. Contador has been banned for two years after testing positive for ...
Then three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador was stripped of his latest title after he was found guilty by the Court of Arbitration for Sport of the doping allegations he was accused of back in 2009. Now former German great Jan Ullrich (1997 Tour ...
Astana teammates Andreas Kloden of Germany, American Levi Leipheimer, American seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, and Alberto Contador of Spain. AP Photo/Christophe Ena This has been an epochal week for cycling – a sport which ...
A Tour de France guide, with links, news, and comments. The Tour de France, also referred to as La Grande Boucle, Le Tour or The Tour, is a long-distance road bicycle competition held in July in France and nearby countries.