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Tejay van Garderen's win at the Tour of California says a lot about the "Next Big American Stage Racer" label he's been wearing for quite some time. It also creates quite the dilemma for his BMC team heading into the Tour de France.

Former U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Terry Madden confirmed Saturday that "one of Lance Armstrong's closest representatives" contacted the agency in 2004 and offered to make a six-figure "gift" -- an offer that was immediately rejected, Madden said.

By force of lifetime habit, Lance Armstrong is still trying to shape his own narrative, Bonnie D. Ford writes.

Lance Armstrong's legal woes are far from over on several fronts, including an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Postal Service, the longtime title sponsor for his cycling teams and once inextricably linked to his racing success.

There is no sport with a bigger credibility fight on its hands than cycling, and no event where genuine romance coexists so uncomfortably with hideous reality than the Tour de France, writes Bonnie D. Ford.

The UCI upheld the sanctions imposed by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, stripping Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles, but the organization cannot escape blame for its role in the scandal.

In "The Secret Race," over and over, Tyler Hamilton's message comes through: Doping hid in plain sight during the Lance Armstrong era. Cheating occurred on such a massive scale, in such mundane packaging, that it receded into the landscape and became almost invisible.

The world is altered this morning, even if the record books don't reflect that quite yet. Lance Armstrong has abandoned. Essentially entered a plea of nolo contendere. Wheeled over to the side of the road, dismounted, and disappeared into the broo...

Floyd Landis was arraigned Friday morning in U.S. District Court in San Diego on a single count of wire fraud related to fund-raising for his legal defense, but his case will be dismissed if he repays donors within three years.

Lance Armstrong's virtual day in court was unlike most days he experienced during his seven-year championship reign in Tour de France.

Mark Cavendish has been victorious on virtually every cycling stage, except one: the Olympics. He'll have his chance on his home soil this summer in London, and the result is sure to set off waves of delirium or disappointment among what is arguably the world's toughest audience -- the British public.

The World Triathlon Corporation's board of directors has decided to leave in place a rule that suspends Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong from participating in Ironman events.

Four months after federal officials dropped a nearly 2-year-old investigation of seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is aggressively pursuing a case against him. Armstrong, his longtime team director Johan Br...

Federal authorities in San Diego are investigating possible fraud charges against former professional cyclist Floyd Landis in relation to his legal defense fund, which closed its books almost five years ago.

Numerous questions remain in the wake of the abrupt curtailment of the Lance Armstrong investigation, which drew in dozens of witnesses, reams of scientific and financial documents, and multiple law enforcement agencies in the United States and overseas.

PITTSBURGH -- Of all the strange and convoluted journeys through sports and doping in recent annals, former cyclist Joe Papp's odyssey from user to trafficker to repentant informant has to be one of the most unusual. One part of that long and twist...