Nearly four years after he began waging a battle to discredit his positive test for synthetic testosterone at the 2006 Tour de France, Floyd Landis told ESPN.com Wednesday that he used performance-enhancing drugs for most of his career.
For those who follow professional cycling, Chris Carmichael is a legend. For those who don’t, you’re about to learn why he’s a legend. Carmichael is most known as being personal coach to cancer survivor and seven-time Tour de France Champion Lance Armstrong, but he’s also written seven books, coached a slew of other elite athletes, was member of the 1984 Olympic cycling team and was declared the 1999 U.S. Olympic Committee Coach of the Year. Oh, and he’s the founder and CEO of the uber- succe
filed in Sports on Jul.22, 2009Cycling is not supposed to be a contact sport. Wrestling, yes. Rugby, yes. Cycling, no. But on a July afternoon in 1964, two Frenchmen rode up a mountain in a way unseen before or since. They literally went shoulder to shoulder, riding side by side, leaning into each other, neither yielding, in a tumultuous battle for supremacy that would decide the outcome of the 51st Tour de France.Which one of them would prevail? Would it be the aloof, impassive Jacques Anquetil
by Ryland James MARTIGNY, Switzerland, July 21, 2009 (AFP) – A chance meeting in a pub with an alternative healer is the last place you would expect a Tour de France rider to pin-point as the moment he got his career back. Having been diagnosed in 2006 with a rare and incurable heart disease known to cause sudden death in athletes – Hayden Roulston ’s cycling career was over at just 25 years old. After a handful of seasons competing for professional teams Cofidis and Lance Armstr
BRUSSELS, July 20, 2009 (AFP) – The European Commission announced Monday that Spanish cycling legend Miguel Indurain was helping to promote organic produce in Europe, a move which raised some eyebrows in the EU executive. The five-time Tour de France winner — from 1991 to 1995 — was working with a jury for the EU Organic Logo Competition, with the winner’s work being used to identify organic produce on labelling from July next year. “Miguel Indurain, the son of a farmer, has had a life
