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.

The route for the 2013 Tour de France was announced yesterday and it will not lend itself to Bradley Wiggins staking a claim for consecutive wins.

Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins is frustrated the present generation of riders have been left to answer questions about the state of cycling in the wake of the Lance Armstrong affair.

Bradley Wiggins’ hopes of defending his Tour de France title were dealt a blow today after the details of the 2013 route were unveiled in Paris.

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.

The 2013 Tour de France – the 100th edition of cycling’s most prestigious race - will start in Corsica, event director Christian Prudhomme confirmed today.

The 2012 Tour de France could favour cycling’s leading climbers after the route was confirmed today.

SCOTLAND is in the process preparing to bid to host the Tour de France in 2017, with the possibility of the world’s best cyclists descending on Edinburgh or Glasgow for the Grand Depart.

Organisers of the Tour de France today unveiled the route for the 2011 race with six mountain stages awaiting the riders.

The 2010 Tour de France will start in Rotterdam with a 9 km time-trial course, the competition’s organisers announced today.

TOUR DE FRANCE director Christian Prudhomme claims his changes have made this year’s race one of the most exciting in years.

SAMUEL DUMOULIN battled the conditions as well as his fellow riders to claim victory in the third stage of the Tour de France.

Samuel Dumoulin battled the conditions as well as his fellow riders to claim victory in the third stage of the Tour de France.

Tour de France organisers today began trying to hammer out a deal to see a stage of the race return to London without any sign of a breakthrough in the bitter rift which could threaten this year’s event.

Scotland could provide the setting for the early stages of a future Tour de France.

The organisers of the Tour de France have criticised cycling’s world governing body over doping controls, describing the UCI as “incompetent”.

The 17th stage of the 2007 Tour de France started today with nobody wearing the yellow jersey.

Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has expressed his disappointment over the latest scandal to affect the tour, after Team Astana withdrew following Alexandre Vinokourov’s positive test for a banned blood transfusion.

FLOYD LANDIS was yesterday confirmed as Tour de France champion after the traditional final stage finish on the Champs Elysees in Paris.

London is facing competition from five other bids to host a stage in the 2005 Tour de France.