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.
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
Now you can download *”Lance: The Making of the World’s Greatest Champion”* at 30% below retail, instantly, and in an eco-friendly format that protects the environment in which we train. Visit mindsettriathlon.com and preview the book today HERE . No champion has astonished the world quite like Lance Armstrong. A cancer survivor who went on to win the Tour de France an unprecedented seven times, he is an inspiration to millions. Yet few know the complete story of this brash, smart, and fierc
While the wide-world of cycling isn’t exactly included in our mobile-related beat, I figure HTC’s Tour de France cycling team is doing too well to ignore. Team Columbia-HTC has been seeing great success at the Tour de France, thanks to team rider Mark Cavendish. I won’t pretend to know too much about cycling (please tell me what a peloton is), but I do know a fast cyclist when I read about one. The Tour’s fastest cyclist this year seems to be Team Columbia-HTC’s very own Cavendish, who just mana
