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Sara Errani, David Ferrer, and Dinara Safina have all been asked about their connections with Lance Armstrong’s doctor, the now-banned Luis Garcia del Moral, in Valencia, Spain. USA Today has run a story by Doug Robson headlined, “Is Tennis Doing Enough on Doping?”; in it, Robson questioned the amount of funding that the sport commits to its program. Yannick Noah says he wants the players checked virtually around the clock.
Most significant of all, Andy Murray said this week that he wants more blood testing; more testing in the off-season, when players are doing their training; and harsh sentences for those caught. That’s something of a turnaround for Murray, who has vented his annoyance in the past with testers waking him up before the crack of dawn, and who wasn't...
The drug testers came calling on Andy Murray here on Saturday night before the start of this week's Paris Masters – and the 25-year-old Scot was very happy to see them. Murray believes that tennis needs to do more... more »
Lance Armstrong was scratched from the Tour de France record books on Monday, but he’s still a “7-time Tour de France winner” according to his Twitter handle. Deny, deny, deny has long been the embattled ... more »
The rightful destination of the seven yellow jerseys taken from Lance Armstrong on Monday will never be clear. In the absence of obviously dope-free Tour de France podium finishers from those years, they might as well go to the... more »
This one is anything but over. The curtains keep falling, endlessly, around former world champion Lance Armstrong, whom the UCI finally stripped of his seven Tour wins on Monday, as it categorically upheld a searing U.S.... more »
Pat McQuaid, the president of the International Cycling Union, attempted to restore order to a sport reeling from the revelation that its greatest icon was a drug cheat. At a press conference in Geneva, McQuaid said the UCI... more »
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