Sir Mo Farah has criticised the degree of attention given to his relationship with controversial coach Alberto Salazar and claims some critics are "trying to destroy" his legacy.

US Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart has urged Fifa to move next year’s World Cup out of Russia.

A Russian diplomat has described the decision to ban their Paralympics team from the Rio Games next month as "filthy and inhumane".

UK Athletics has found no evidence of wrongdoing by Mo Farah in the initial findings of its investigation into allegations of doping against his coach Alberto Salazar.

Professional cyclists continue to take performance enhancing drugs, according to a major report.

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.

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

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 UCI has dropped its legal action against the Irish writer Paul Kimmage, the cycling body's new president has confirmed.

Athletics was today facing one of its darkest periods in recent history thanks to a devastating drug scandal.

The head of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) yesterday lashed out at the UCI for failing to take decisive action to clean up the sport in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.

Lance Armstrong has been stopped from competing at a masters swimming event in Texas in what would have been the banned cyclist’s first return to competitive sport.

Lance Armstrong is planning to make a return to competitive sport as a swimmer this weekend.

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.

Tea coasters, extreme frisbees or wind chimes – one businessman needs to offload quite a few discs.

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.

One of the people to have branded Lance Armstrong as a doper long before his confession is willing to meet him after having her story verified at last.

The second segment of Oprah Winfrey's interview with Lance Armstrong was never going to contain the same level of fireworks but it did produce a hint of the anticipated waterworks.

Lance Armstrong’s insistence that he had stopped doping when he made his Tour de France comeback in 2009 has been challenged following his appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show.

Former UCI President Hein Verbruggen had assets managed by the investment bank of Thom Weisel, backer of the US Postal Services team that disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong rode for during his rise to fame in the late 90s and early 2000s — but has denied any wrongdoing.

Oprah Winfrey has confirmed that Lance Armstrong came clean to her about his use of performance-enhancing drugs during their interview.

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has ended a decade of denial by confessing to Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France.

Brian Cookson, the president of British Cycling, has urged Lance Armstrong to name names and tell all when he addresses the damning doping accusations against him this week.

The head of a drug-testing laboratory in Switzerland has denied giving banned cyclist Lance Armstrong “the key” to avoiding detection for the blood-boosting agent EPO.

Reformed drug cheat David Millar fears Lance Armstrong’s appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s show next week will be “stage-managed”.

Lance Armstrong will break his silence over allegations of drug doping after it was announced he is to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey next week.

Pat McQuaid breezes into the hotel foyer, unruffled by the mayhem of Christmas shopping.

The International Olympic Committee has postponed a decision on whether to strip Lance Armstrong of the bronze medal he won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics for legal reasons, president Jacques Rogge has announced.

Irish author and campaigning sportswriter Paul Kimmage has hinted that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong may come clean about his drug-fuelled rise to the top of the sport.

Lance Armstrong’s cancer fighting charity has formally dropped him from its name and will officially be known as the Livestrong Foundation.

A Texas promotions company that paid disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong more than $7m in bonuses for winning the Tour de France is demanding he return the money.

World cycling governing body, the UCI is to set-up an independent commission to look into the allegations made against it following the US Anti-Doping Agency's investigation into Lance Armstrong.

Lance Armstrong is now facing the prospect of having to repay millions of dollars in prize money after he was formally stripped of his professional titles.

Lance Armstrong said he has been through a “difficult couple of weeks” and urged supporters of his cancer-fighting charity to stand behind its mission.

Former cyclist Lance Armstrong has today stepped down as chairman of the Livestrong cancer-fighting charity.

Fresh questions last night emerged over the “triangle” involving disgraced Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, a payment by him to the International Cycling Union (UCI), and a drug- testing laboratory.

True confession: your columnist had forgotten all about Ireland playing Germany until I stumbled across the post-match analysis on Friday night’s television.

Pressure is mounting on Hein Verbruggen, the head of the International Cycling Union during the Lance Armstrong era, to resign from his remaining posts on the organisation.

Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond believes Lance Armstrong will never admit to having taken performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career despite the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report which detailed the Texan’s role in the most successful and sophisticated doping programme in sports history.

Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins has spoken of his shock at the “scale of the evidence” produced by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) against Lance Armstrong.

The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) last night revealed its “reasoned decision” document, detailing the evidence it has amassed against Lance Armstrong and his US Postal Service team associates who engaged in what USADA calls “the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen”.

Cycling’s world governing body the UCI have expressed their concern over the time taken by the US Anti-Doping Agency to release their written judgment on Lance Armstrong, who has already been banned for life and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.

The head of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) says he has received death threats for his investigation of Lance Armstrong.