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A former teammate of Lance Armstrong has reportedly backed claims by disgraced cycling champion Floyd Landis that Armstrong took part in and encouraged doping within the US Postal team.

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Overnight, seven time Tour De France winner Lance Armstrong bid adieu a second time to the race that has defined his career. A career he has congealed into a tetchy international profile.

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Spain’s Alberto Contador secured a third Tour de France yellow jersey on Sunday after the 20th and final stage to the Champs Elysees won by Briton Mark Cavendish.

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Disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis says he witnessed first hand former American teammate Lance Armstrong using performance-enhancing drugs, including receiving transfusions for blood doping.

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The Tour de France is over for Lance Armstrong after losing over 11 minutes to his rivals in stage 8. Cadel Evans assumes the overall race lead, however, the dramatic circumstances surrounding Armstrong took the spotlight for the day.

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Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel took revenge on overnight race leader Fabian Cancellara on Saturday by winning his second stage on the Tour de France to reclaim the yellow jersey.

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Lance Armstrong’s white and yellow bike stands out from the rest of the super-slick red and grey Trek machines used by his RadioShack team.

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Alberto Contador survived the crash carnage of the Tour de France second stage on Monday but was still complaining of injuries that could seriously hamper his ride in the treacheous third stage.

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Last week Lance Armstrong announced that this would be his final Tour. It’s hard to write off such a great champion, however it’s my opinion that Lance can’t win and, according to Greg LeMond, he may even struggle to cross the border.

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Swiss Olympic champion Fabian Cancellara stuck with tradition on Saturday by winning the opening prologue of the 97th Tour de France to take possession of the race’s yellow jersey.

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Lance Armstrong crashed during the Tour of California on Thursday, sending him to the hospital for precautionary X-rays on the day he was accused of doping by former teammate Floyd Landis.

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Seven-time Tour of France winner Lance Armstrong believes, at 38, he has little chance of beating arch-rival Alberto Contador of Spain to win an eighth title this year.

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Lance Armstrong played a card, but the powerful HTC Columbia team holds two impressive aces ahead of the Tour Down Under’s decisive stage.

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Australian world cycling champion Cadel Evans has already performed far better than expected at the Tour Down Under, finishing third in a brutally-hard stage three.

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Lance Armstrong is in the unusual position this week of helping drive the “train” rather than benefitting from its horsepower.

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Besides a broken shoe, Tour Down Under stars Lance Armstrong and Cadel Evans stayed out of trouble through the opening stage. Evans was caught up in the crash less than a kilometre into the 141km first stage north of Adelaide from Clare to the Barossa town of Tanunda.

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Lance Armstrong was quick to praise his new signing Tim Roe after the young Adelaide native shone in his first Tour Down Under. The 20-year-old cyclist was in a three-man break that dominated the 141km opening stage north of Adelaide from Clare to Tanunda.

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Sporting celebrity hero worship is a funny thing. So many of us do it, yet it is something we often chastise. And few athletes typify this dichotomy like Lance Armstrong.

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Lance Armstrong has backed up his talk with impressive action, displaying unexpected form in the Tour Down Under’s Cancer Council Classic.

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Over 100,000 will gather in Adelaide’s CBD today to watch Lance Armstrong, Cadel Evans and their pro-cycling buddies – impressive for a city with just over one million inhabitants. Adelaide, so often derided by its eastern seaboard brethren as a backwater has, in fact, contributed much to the wider Aussie sporting landscape, be it cycling, [...]

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