Rupert Guinness

Rupert Guinness

Rupert Guinness is a Sports Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald

Drugs chief: Armstrong's Down Under ride wrong

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,...

White in demand for coaching jobs

Rupert Guinness Matt White says he has had offers to resume his coaching career from rival teams to the Australian Orica-GreenEDGE outfit that sacked him as head sports director after he admitted to using drugs...

Cycling

Rival teams try to lure White

Back? Matt White (in car) when he was Orica-GreenEDGE sports director.

Rupert Guinness Australian says a return to the Orica-GreenEDGE team is his preferred option.

Cycling

Confession mustn't pay - Hosking

Lance Armstrong and Tyler Hamilton

Rupert Guinness AUSTRALIAN rider Chloe Hosking praised British star Nicole Cooke for condemning dopers such as Lance Armstrong and Tyler Hamilton in her retirement speech on Monday.

There's more to this case than just drug-taking

Rupert Guinness

Rupert Guinness If reports are true that Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey in an interview to air here on Friday that he used performance-enhancing drugs, they should be taken with caution.

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Cycling

Angry riders slam cheats

Chloe Hoskings.

Rupert Guinness Australian rider Chloe Hosking praises British star Nicole Cooke for condemning dopers.

Only the truth will do

Waiting for Friday: Lance Armstrong has reportedly confessed to doping.

Rupert Guinness Lance Armstrong will reportedly confess to Oprah Winfrey in an interview.

Cycling

Armstrong has more than just drug-taking to confess

Lance Armstrong

Rupert Guinness If reports are true that Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey in an interview to air on Friday (AEDT) that he used performance-enhancing drugs, they should be taken with caution.

Review 'must be public'

Nicki Vance

Rupert Guinness Call to make public review into Orica-GreenEDGE team's anti-doping procedures and practices.

Cycling

Lance: I'm a doper, but no cheat

Rupert Guinness

Rupert Guinness Yes. The simplest of words, but one that Lance Armstrong had never been able to say whenever he was faced with doping allegations.

Cycling

Rogers' switch the talk of town

Riding high: Andre Greipel wins stage one.

Rupert Guinness Michael Rogers' switch from the British Sky team to Saxo-Tinkoff was one of the surprise off-season moves in world cycling, and it continues to raise eyebrows at the Tour Down Under in Adelaide.

Cycling

Rogers move still rankles for Sky

Michael Rogers

Rupert Guinness MICHAEL ROGERS'S switch from the British Sky team to Saxo-Tinkoff was one of the surprise off-season moves in world cycling, and continues to raise eyebrows at the Tour Down Under in Adelaide.

Another stage for Armstrong, but no cheering

Ruper GUinness dinkus

Rupert Guinness It was the day of the hangover: the day after Lance Armstrong's highly anticipated confession.

Tour de France: the Hall of Shame

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

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

Nomination spurs hope for change

Cycling Australia nominee Tracey Gaudry.

Rupert Guinness One of Cycling Australia's harshest critics applauds the national governing body for nominating Tracey Gaudry as the new Oceania president, but says he is still wary about the future of the sport.

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

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.