For several years, it was not so much smoke but thick clouds of cynicism that hung over Salazar’s work as head coach at the Nike Oregon Project.

A 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted twice, by two different men, as she made her way home from a festival in England.

A "cold, calculated and scheming man" killed his wife and daughter before turning the gun on himself, an inquest in the UK has heard.

WE ARE in a brave new world. The milk quota is gone. The dairy industry is now in the unusual situation of being asked to make all it can.

The anti-doping chief who compiled the dossier which led to Lance Armstrong’s downfall has no objection to the American returning to the Tour de France this summer.

Liverpool have another chance to chase a place in next season’s Champions League as they begin their UEFA Europa League campaign.

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong hit two parked cars after a night of partying in Aspen, Colorado, but agreed to let his long-time girlfriend take the blame to avoid national attention, police reports show.

Lance Bass has got married.

Lance Armstrong insists he would never cheat — at golf.

Travis Tygart will forever be known as the man who brought Lance Armstrong down. The USADA chief executive explains how he has managed to retain his love for sport despite all he’s uncovered

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Brazil has been numbed by the 7-1 humiliation to Germany in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday night.

Kate Hudson doesn't feel sorry for her ex-boyfriends Lance Armstrong and Alex Rodriguez.

CYCLING: Johan Bruyneel, Lance Armstrong’s long-time team director, has been banned for 10 years by the American Arbitration Association.

It’s been just over a year since Lance Armstrong came clean about riding dirty in a worldwide exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey right here in Austin, Texas.

Sport, like most things, has both good and bad sides. It’s tempting to get caught up in the magical side but it’s naïve to think it’s all wonderful. Ugly issues like drugs in sport exist.

Former world cycling chief Hein Verbruggen has dismissed Lance Armstrong’s suggestion that he helped to hush up a positive drug test for the American.

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president John Fahey says it would take something “close to a miracle” for Lance Armstrong to have his lifetime ban from cycling reduced even if he co-operated with an inquiry into doping.

The international cycling union UCI says it will make contact with Lance Armstrong about testifying to a new independent commission but has stressed the disgraced drugs cheat will get no special treatment.

Davy Fitzgerald is set to remain as Clare senior hurling manager for another three years following last night’s county board meeting.

So fare thee well Lance Franklin. We hardly knew ya.

European Cycling Union vice president Harald Tiedemann Hansen feels Pat McQuaid will need a “sledge hammer” to defend himself against corruption allegations in his bid to be re-elected president of the International Cycling Union.

*NSYNC are ecstatic following their successful reunion at the MTV Video Music Awards last night.

Jan Ullrich believes Lance Armstrong should still be regarded as a seven-time Tour de France champion and that the results should not have been removed from the record books.

Pat Shortt and Fionnuala Flanagan in Life’s A Breeze, a comedy about a Dublin family’s hunt for a mattress of money; inset, newcomer Kelly Thornton.

Chris Froome was unable to savour his historic victory atop Mont Ventoux as he continued to face questions about doping during yesterday’s rest day at the 100th Tour de France.

Disgraced career-long drug user, Lance Armstrong says UCI president Pat McQuaid does not want a truth and reconciliation commission because it would bring down the Irishman and the world governing body.

Former vice president of the board of Cycling Ireland Anthony Moran last night outlined the reasons for his shock resignation from the post yesterday, revealing he had lost faith in the UCI and Pat McQuaid.

It seems that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has a sympathiser in the land Down Under.

The United States Government has confirmed it has joined a civil lawsuit against Lance Armstrong to claim around $100m (€75m) from the disgraced cyclist.

Chief executive Travis Tygart is confident the United States Anti-Doping Agency can continue its investigation to clean up cycling without the help of Lance Armstrong.

Lance Armstrong’s attorney, Tim Herman, has confirmed that the disgraced American cyclist will not speak under oath to US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) officials about his doping past.

Lance Armstrong has refused to be interviewed under oath by the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s officials, his attorney confirmed tonight.

Pat McQuaid insists at no time in recent months has he considered his future as president of the International Cycling Union, despite the barrage of criticism over the Lance Armstrong scandal and intense demand for a change of leadership at the world governing body.

Spanish rider Luis Leon Sanchez has been suspended by his Blanco Pro Cycling team as the Dutch squad investigate his links to Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor at the centre of the Operacion Puerto trial in Madrid.

Over the next three months, it will be fascinating to watch how he shapes this new generation.

Pressure is mounting on the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) leadership with the governing body plunged into fresh controversy for disbanding its own inquiry into the Lance Armstrong drugs scandal.

United States Anti-Doping Agency head Travis Tygart has claimed Lance Armstrong is still lying about the full extent of his doping past.

Lance Armstrong lied his whole career, made millions out of his deceit and deprived countless competitors of the precious little sunlight that cycling basks in every summer.

The inevitable admission of doping by Lance Armstrong has raised a whole series of issues for the UCI and sports administrators in general in the fight to keep sport clean.

The Texan company who insured bonuses were paid to Lance Armstrong following his fourth, fifth and sixth Tour de France wins will this week file a lawsuit to recoup $12m (€9m) from the disgraced American cyclist.

I’m not usually one for trading secrets with guys I want to beat in races, but here’s a confession.

Sunday Times journalist David Walsh said today he felt “a little bit of sympathy” for Lance Armstrong following the disgraced cyclist’s admission of drug-taking during his career.

Lance Armstrong’s former team-mate Tyler Hamilton believes the disgraced cyclist is “not 100 per cent” sorry.

One of Lance Armstrong’s biggest critics today dismissed the former cyclist’s public show of contrition, labelling him “delusional”.