Lance Armstrong will take on world road cycling champion Cadel Evans and Olympic gold medalist Samuel Sanchez in next month's Criterium International in Corsica. Armstrong's Team Radioshack, Evans' BMC Racing Team and Sanchez's Euskaltel-Euskadi are among the top Pro Tour teams scheduled to line ...

The 2011 Tour de France will start in the Atlantic coast department of the Vendee, race director Christian Prudhomme announced here on Tuesday. The first stage will get underway on Saturday July 2 close to the approaches to the island of Noirmoutier and will end at the Mont des Alouettes next to the town of Les Herbiers. The following day ...

World sport's top court CAS on Monday rejected an appeal by disgraced German cyclist Stefan Schumacher against a two-year ban for doping, related to offences at the 2008 Tour de France. Schumacher tested positive for the banned blood booster EPO CERA both at the Tour de France and Olympic Games in 2008. He was appealing against a ban handed ...

As Lance Armstrong flew out of Australia on a private jet, the big question was left hanging in the Adelaide air: can he really win the Tour de France again? The Texan, 38, was in better shape than in last year's Tour Down Under, when he returned after three-and-a-half years in retirement. He is apparently happy with new team ...