Russia faces being banned from the Rio 2016 Olympics after an investigation revealed “state-sponsored” doping on a wide scale in one of sport’s biggest ever scandals.

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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.

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

New UCI president Brian Cookson will aim to establish quickly whether his predecessors were embroiled in covering up the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has claimed it was impossible to win the Tour de France without using drugs during the time he doped his way to seven victories between 1999 and 2005.

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.

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.

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

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’s claims that his use of performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career made it a level playing field have been labelled “amazing” and “simply not true” by United States Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart.

The prospect of co-operation between Lance Armstrong and anti-doping authorities appears remote despite the disgraced cyclist’s long-awaited confession to the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

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.

The two Irish sportswriters who doggedly pursued Lance Armstrong throughout his career have dismissed the disgraced Texan’s TV confessional as a futile, desperate bid to mount one last climb — this time, out of the gutter he has mired himself in.

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Journalist Paul Kimmage, a former Tour de France rider and long-time critic of Lance Armstrong, was so frustrated by Oprah Winfrey’s line of questioning of the drugs cheat that he said he “wanted to put (his) boot through the television”.

UCI president Pat McQuaid has welcomed Lance Armstrong’s confession of using performance-enhancing drugs – and, in particular, the American’s insistence that cycling’s world governing body were not complicit in keeping his doping hidden.

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.

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.

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.

Fresh evidence has emerged of how Lance Armstrong managed to avoid positive drugs tests that raises further questions about the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) involvement in the scandal.

Fresh evidence has emerged of how Lance Armstrong managed to avoid positive drugs tests that raises further questions about the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) involvement in the scandal.

Lance Armstrong can still do good for cycling by telling the truth about his doping past, according to United States anti-doping chief Travis Tygart.

A pressure group formed to try to force change on world cycling's governing body, the UCI, will meet for the first time in London this weekend.

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 was a “serial cheat” who led “the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen”, United States Anti-Doping Agency said last night.

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.

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Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong faces being stripped of his titles and banned from cycling for life after announcing he will not contest charges levelled by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

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.

Tour de France leader Bradley Wiggins insisted the race for the yellow jersey is far from over despite taking a commanding lead with victory on stage nine.

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.