Gaudry in rhythm for uphill grind

Samantha Lane AN EXTRAORDINARY appointment arriving in the most extraordinary of times, Tracey Gaudry says she's a brave woman, and she'll need to be.

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Cycling's new pacesetter

Samantha Lane An extraordinary appointment arriving in the most extraordinary of times, Tracey Gaudry says she's a brave woman and she'll need to be.

An opportunity to share the road if not the limelight

Samantha Lane Surely the elite riders should be racing in Adelaide rather than training in Canberra?

State, tour 'backed a loser'

Samantha Lane Anti-doping expert says Tour Down Under "prostituted itself" by paying Lance Armstrong.

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Ashenden slams Tour for luring liar

Samantha Lane MICHAEL ASHENDEN, an anti-doping expert and former employee of cycling's world governing body, says the Tour Down Under "prostituted itself" by paying Lance Armstrong millions of dollars to race in...

Could be a case of karma for tour

Samantha Lane We're still not getting a straight answer about how much South Australia paid Lance Armstrong.

Stonewall on Armstrong

Samantha Lane Amount of Australian taxpayer money paid to Lance Armstrong may yet be disclosed.

SA may come clean on Lance cash

Samantha Lane, Adelaide The amount of Australian taxpayer money paid to Lance Armstrong may yet be disclosed by a South Australian government under renewed pressure to declare how it lured the now-disgraced cyclist to Tour...

Brown denies dope claims

Samantha Lane Fresh allegations of rife doping at professional team Rabobank have been denied.

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Brown denies claims Rabobank 'functioned around doping'

Samantha Lane FRESH allegations of rife doping at professional team Rabobank have been denied by Australia's dual Olympic champion, Graeme Brown, who is entering his eighth season with the rebadged outfit.

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Tour defends paying Lance

Samantha Lane Tour Down Under's race director rebuffs fresh criticism of taxpayer dollars paid to Lance Armstrong.

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Wiggins calls Armstrong a 'lying bastard'

Samantha Lane British cycling champion Bradley Wiggins does not believe Lance Armstrong rode clean in the 2009 Tour de France – a counter claim to the American’s insistence he never doped after 2005.

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Lance is a 'lying bastard': Wiggins

Samantha Lane Bradley Wiggins does not believe Lance Armstrong rode clean in the 2009 Tour de France.

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Armstrong lied about making clean return, says Wiggins

Samantha Lane BRITISH champion Bradley Wiggins does not believe Lance Armstrong rode clean in the 2009 Tour de France - despite the American's insistence he did not dope after 2005.

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Australian cycling waits on further drugs fall-out

Samantha Lane Twenty-eight Australian cyclists are working their way through the Tour Down Under this week.

Call to clear bike 'suspects'

Samantha Lane Cycling Australia boss Klaus Mueller says reputations are being unfairly damaged.

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Cycling world in a spin over drug amnesty proposal

Samantha Lane Australian anti-doping expert Mike Ashenden is sceptical of the UCI under Pat McQuaid.

Anti-doping boss claims Armstrong still lying

Samantha Lane Lance Armstrong has until February 6 to do something he has always resisted - co-operate fully with the US Anti-Doping Agency - and is being lured by the promise his lifetime ban from sport will be...

Drug testing on cyclists decreasing

Samantha Lane THE Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority says it is conducting fewer tests on cyclists because screening is more sophisticated and the government agency is no longer responsible for drug controls...