Rupert Guinness

Rupert Guinness

Rupert Guinness is a Sports Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald

Cycling

Sutton's coach dumped

Bobby Julich

Rupert Guinness Australian learns via Sky team email that Bobby Julich was cut after confessing to doping.

Cycling

Leadership, route a boost for Evans

New Tour direction: Bradley Wiggins (left), Cadel Evans and Mark Cavendish.

Rupert Guinness Cadel Evans' hopes of a second victory in Tour de France get a big boost.

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Evans on course for second win

Cadel

Rupert Guinness FOR Cadel Evans there was more to the presentation of next year's Tour de France route in Paris on Wednesday to buoy his chances of a second career victory than the ideal course it revealed.

We should have got Armstrong earlier: official

Generic cycling

Rupert Guinness Ray Godkin says in hindsight UCI could have pursued Lance Armstrong earlier.

Cycling

UCI insider rues failure in catching Armstrong

Lance Armstrong

Rupert Guinness RAY GODKIN, once Australia's top-ranking cycling official, says that in hindsight the International Cycling Union could have pursued suspicions over Lance Armstrong earlier.

Don't dump dope cheats, reform them - team boss

Matthew White

Rupert Guinness MATT WHITE and Stephen Hodge should not have lost their positions at Cycling Australia after their confessions to doping during their racing careers, says Jonathan Vaughters, who testified in the US...

Cycling

UCI yet to accept some blame

Rupert Guinness

Rupert Guinness UCI president Pat McQuaid labelled the life ban against Lance Armstrong as a 'landmark day'.

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World cycling still has a mountain to climb

Lance Armstrong

Rupert Guinness The President of the Union Cycliste Internationale, Pat McQuaid, labelled its ratification of a life ban against Lance Armstrong and the stripping of his seven Tour de France titles as a "landmark...

Tour de France: the Hall of Shame

Ruper GUinness dinkus

Rupert Guinness It has been a confronting week for cycling fans since the fall of Lance Armstrong.

Cycling

Hodge hopes to deter others from doping

Stephen Hodge

Rupert Guinness WITH his confession for doping behind him, Stephen Hodge is readying for the challenge of facing a new world where he knows he will no longer be lauded as a Tour de France rider.

Wheels turn away from big league

One of thousands of Melbourne cyclists who took part in Ride2Work Day on Wednesday.

Jared Lynch and Rupert Guinness Despite Lance Armstrong's stain on the sport, cycling has never been stronger in Australia.

Uphill battle to keep pedlars out

matt white

Rupert Guinness CYCLING'S drug scandal claimed a second Australian scalp yesterday amid concerns that the problem has spread from top professionals to the grassroots club level.

Little to celebrate with Livestrong anniversary

Rupert Guinness

Rupert Guinness The strength of Lance Armstrong's waning allure as the wall of support from his sponsors crumbles will be challenged from today on - a day when his world should celebrating.

Cycling

Little to celebrate with Livestrong anniversary

(FILES) In this photo dated on June 8, 2003 US cyclist Lance Armstrong speaks to the press in Villars-de-Lans, before the start of the first stage of the Criterium du Dauphine Libere cycling event.

Rupert Guinness The strength of Lance Armstrong's waning allure as the wall of support from his sponsors crumbles will be challenged from today on - a day when his world should celebrating.

Cycling

Armstrong got special treatment: drug chief

Lance Armstrong rides in the sixth and final stage of the Tour Down Under in Adelaide on January 25, 2009.

Rupert Guinness Union Cycliste Internationale showed American leniency during his 2009 comeback.

Drugs chief: Armstrong's Down Under ride wrong

Lance Armstrong

Rupert Guinness LANCE ARMSTRONG should not have been allowed to make his comeback at the 2009 Tour Down Under without having registered with the Union Cycliste Internationale anti-doping program six months earlier,...

Armstrong's world continues to unravel, but will he face the ultimate truth?

Lance Armstrong

Rupert Guinness Whether the truth caught up with Lance Armstrong, or he saw it coming, it didn't matter. For many, the truth still proved the ultimate winner in the doping scandal surrounding the American, as he...

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Cycling

Ryan stays loyal to cycling after scandal

Key men: Matt White (left) and Gerry Ryan, owner of the Orica-GreenEDGE team, earlier this year.

Rupert Guinness Owner of Orica-GreenEDGE team says his faith in the sport is ''solid'' despite doping controversy.

Cycling

GreenEDGE owner says 'sport has moved on'

Gerry Ryan

Rupert Guinness GERRY RYAN, owner of the Orica-GreenEDGE team and a major sponsor of Australian cycling, says his faith in the sport is ''solid'', despite the damage of the doping controversy it is facing.

Cycling

Money question is valid

Jay Weatherill.

Rupert Guinness So you think the South Australian government wants its money back from Lance Armstrong after a US Anti-Doping Agency found him guilty of doping offences - including during his comeback years that...