The International Cycling Union Pro Tour closed with new doping scandals and with the sport's governing body vowing to crack down.

Danilo Di Luca, Giro d'Italia champion, risks to be excluded from road race at the world championships for the new inquiries into his alleged links with doping.

Though Floyd Landis' drug tests weren't handled properly it doesn't negate the findings. Pound said that despite Landis' contention that the test procedures were less than perfect, there was no escaping the fact that banned substances were found.

Colombian cyclist Leonardo Duque has won the 16th stage of the Tour of Spain while Denis Menchov of Russia retained the overall lead.

Team CSC/Marcello - which is set to leave South Africa on Wednesday, August 29, to compete in next week’s Tour de Korea - continued to deliver winning performances as its riders filled the podium this past weekend, August 25 and 26, 2007.

A group of top South African cyclists have been selected to participate, for the first time, in the Tour de Korea which is scheduled to take place from September 1 to 9, 2007.

Five time Tour de France winner Eddy Merckx believes that cycling will recover from its recent doping scandals.

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador Sunday won the drug-tainted Tour de France. The Tour has been plagued by scandals over doping, and this was the worst year yet.

British cyclist Bradley Wiggins declared this year's Tour de France as "null and void" after he was unwittingly caught up in the doping scandals that have tainted the race.

Tour de France leader Michael Rasmussen of Denmark has been removed from the race for violating internal rules set by his team.

If you’re an optimist you would say that cycling is in such a deep black hole of scandal that soon thing must get better. One main reason why the once revered Tour de France is in such agony, suffering a thousand cuts from doping, is that the sport failed to fully heed the lessons from previous drug scandals in 1998 and as recently as last year.

Tour de France riders staged a silent protest at the start of Wednesday's 16th stage to demonstrate their anger over repeated doping scandals.