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No doping charges in UK cycling probe but methods criticized

Case could be reopened if new evidence emerges

Tour champion Froome could face Dumoulin test on 2018 route

PARIS – Defending champion Chris Froome can expect a stern challenge from Dutch rider Tom Dumoulin in next year’s Tour de France. Froome is chasing a record-equaling fifth victory...

Chris Froome wins Velo d’Or award for 3rd time

PARIS – Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has capped his season by winning the Velo d’Or award as the best rider of 2017. The Team Sky leader succeeded three-time wor...

World champ Peter Sagan to race in Tour Down Under

ADELAIDE, Australia – Three-time world road race champion Peter Sagan of Slovakia has confirmed he will compete in the Tour Down Under in January, the opening World Tour event of the season....

Giro director to Chris Froome: Come make ‘history’ in Italy

ROME – Rain, often snow, and sometimes even mud. The conditions at the Giro d’Italia are often everything that Chris Froome dislikes most. Yet if the Kenyan-born, heat-...

Another Rumsas family member tests positive for doping

ROME – Fifteen years after his father got entangled with drugs at the Tour de France, Raimondas Rumsas has been provisionally banned by Italy’s anti-doping agency. Nado Italia say...

Italian cyclist Pirazzi gets 4-year ban for pre-Giro doping

AIGLE, Switzerland – Italian cyclist Stefano Pirazzi was banned for four years for a positive doping test ahead of the Giro d’Italia. The International Cycling Union says the 30-y...

Durango’s Carmen Small retires from professional cycling

Durangoan looking forward to new role as cycling director

Devastating concussion helps lead to end of Carmen Small’s cycling career

Carmen Small remembers hearing a rider shout an expletive and her name. More than a minute later, she woke up. The 37-year-old road cyclist from Durango retired from the sport thi...

3-time Olympic cyclist Sarah Hammer retires from riding

COLORADO SPRINGS – Three-time Olympian Sarah Hammer, one of the most decorated track cyclists in U.S. history, is retiring after a prolific career spanning more than two decades. ...

Tom Dumoulin tops Chris Froome for cycling time trial world title

BERGEN, Norway – Giro d’ Italia champion Tom Dumoulin won the time trial world title on Wednesday, beating runner-up Primoz Roglic and Tour de France and Vuelta de Espana winner Chris Froome...

Durango cyclist Sepp Kuss signs with Team LottoNL-Jumbo for World Tour

Days after his 23rd birthday, Durango’s Sepp Kuss took a big leap in his professional road cycling career. Kuss, a 2013 graduate of Durango High School and 2017 graduate of the Un...