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

Lance Armstrong could be called before a Texas court after a lawsuit was filed by SCA Promotions in an effort to recoup more than 12 million US dollars from the disgraced cyclist.

Cycling’s world governing body the UCI is willing to provide an amnesty for those who give evidence to its independent commission on drug use in the sport, providing that does not contravene the World Anti-Doping Agency code.

Cycling's world governing body has urged Lance Armstrong to co-operate with the independent review it set up in the aftermath of the USADA report.

Leading cyclists have requested the introduction of sterner penalties for doping following a meeting of the International Cycling Union’s athletes’ commission.

With a Tour de France victory and Olympic gold against his name in 2012, Bradley Wiggins is looking to fulfil further ambitions in cycling next year.

The World Anti-Doping Agency has confirmed they will not appeal against the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s sanctions against Lance Armstrong.

The embattled International Cycling Union were today meeting in an effort to draw a line under the Lance Armstrong affair and amid calls for a change of the organisation's leadership.

Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond has called for the resignation of Pat McQuaid, the president of cycling’s world governing body the UCI.

Mark Cavendish believes Lance Armstrong should admit to doping for the good of cycling.

Tyler Hamilton has called on Pat McQuaid to step down as president of the International Cycling Union.

UCI President Pat McQuaid has said journalists in Ireland and Britain won't decide his future.

Disgraced Lance Armstrong could be forced to repay his Tour de France winnings after being stripped of his seven titles for doping offences.

The name Lance Armstrong is to be expunged from the record books after cycling’s world governing body yesterday accepted a recommendation to strip the American of his seven Tour de France titles and ban him from the sport for life.

Lance Armstrong was today stripped of his seven Tour de France titles but the sport’s world governing body the UCI were warned the battle against doping is far from won.

Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after the sport’s world governing body, the UCI, today accepted the findings of the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s investigation.

Stephen Roche has cautioned against finding people “guilty through association” in the wake of the United States Anti-doping Agency’s scathing reporting into Lance Armstrong.

Stephen Roche has cautioned against finding people “guilty through association” in the wake of the United States Anti-doping Agency’s scathing reporting into Lance Armstrong.

The International Cycling Union’s honorary president Hein Verbruggen has dismissed an article in which he appears to defend Lance Armstrong as “misleading”.

American cyclist Levi Leipheimer has been sacked by Omega Pharma-QuickStep after admitting to doping while a team-mate of Lance Armstrong.

Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and handed a lifetime ban by the US Anti-Doping Agency after electing not to contest doping charges brought against him.

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has announced he will not fight the charges filed against him by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

Lance Armstrong has refiled his lawsuit against the United States Anti-Doping Agency as he continued to contest charges he used drugs to help him win his record seven Tour de France titles.

Irish cycling legend Stephen Roche predicts Alpine fireworks over the coming days as Bradley Wiggins’ Tour de France lead is set to come under attack — and anticipates the race leader’s Team Sky colleague and fellow Briton Chris Froome could be the major beneficiary.

Lance Armstrong has launched legal action against the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and claimed they offered "corrupt inducements" to other cyclists to testify against him.

Ireland’s two riders in the Tour de France, Nicolas Roche (Ag2r La Mondiale) and Dan Martin (Garmin-SHARP) enjoyed a solid weekend with Roche moving inside the top 10 overall while Martin displayed some good form on Saturday’s leg-breaking climb to the finish at La Planche des Belles Filles to finish 17th.

The US Anti-Doping Agency have confirmed they are to file formal doping charges against Lance Armstrong which could see the cyclist lose his record-breaking total of seven Tour de France titles.

Lance Armstrong has renewed his attack against the United States Anti-Doping Agency by once again claiming the agency’s allegations are based on old, unproved claims.

Lance Armstrong was facing the prospect of losing his record-breaking total of seven Tour de France titles after the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) confirmed they had begun legal proceedings against the former cyclist.

Lance Armstrong was facing the prospect of losing his record-breaking total of seven Tour de France titles after the United States Anti-Doping Agency confirmed they had begun legal proceedings against the former cyclist.

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has announced his retirement from cycling for the second time.

Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong insists "I sleep like a baby" after denying the ongoing investigation into doping allegations levelled at him by Floyd Landis was behind his poor Tour de France display.

The investigation into allegations made by disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis is "significant" and of "great importance" but could take years, the World Anti-Doping Agency have said.

IT was one of the biggest and most dramatic garda operations ever, with some 500 officers taking part in synchronised raids by almost every garda division in the country.