Spanish doctor convicted over doping in cycling

The "Operation Puerto" trial into a doping ring in professional cycling has been "a mistake and a disaster" for Spanish sport but Madrid's bid for the 2020 Olympics should not be penalized as a result, according to bid chief Alejandro Blanco.

Andy Murray has waded into a row over blood-doping for cyclists by blasting a Spanish court's order that key evidence be destroyed as "a joke". Murray called the order to destroy more than 200 blood bags "the biggest cover-up in sports history". It ...

Eufemiano Fuentes has received a suspended one-year jail term for providing blood-doping services to cyclistsAnti-doping chiefs have vowed to challenge a Spanish court's order that blood bags gathered in the Eufemiano Fuentes case will be ...

JASPER, Ala. (Reuters) -- Thanks largely to the U.S. Federal Reserve, Jeffrey Nelson was able to put up a shotgun as down payment on a car. Money was tight last year for the school-bus driver and neighborhood constable in Jasper, Ala., a beaten-down ...

With its systemic corruption, fractious leadership, an entrenched code of silence and some of its members recently embroiled in a high-profile drug trial, professional cycling these days often seems to resemble organized crime more than sport.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has voiced its disappointment with Tuesday's decision by the judge in Spain's "Operation Puerto" doping trial to destroy all the evidence from the case instead of making it available to other sports bodies and ...

If only the Federal Government had kept its plan for a slow and steady return to surplus, our budget position wouldn't seem so doom and gloom, writes Greg Jericho. As expected, talk this week has focussed sharply on the upcoming budget, and notably ...

The United States Anti-Doping Agency's 1,000-page report into the practices adopted by the US Postal Service cycling team thrust the public into the saddle of a systematic and sophisticated doping programme during the sport's infamous 'renewal' ...

There's something about Austin that brings out the best in athletes from Spain. Two years after the Spaniards routed the United States in the Davis Cup at the Erwin Center, Spain made the inaugural Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas a one-country ...