Lance Armstrong

In 1999, Briton David Walsh watched American Lance Armstrong blitz the field on the hill climbs to win his first Tour de France.

The United States has accused cyclist Lance Armstrong of defrauding the US Postal Service by taking its sponsorship money at the same time he was doping and using performance-enhancing drugs in violation of cycling rules.

Lance Armstrong says he received the "death penalty" for using performance-enhancing drugs and lying about it for over a decade, but the disgraced cyclist still harbors a strong desire to compete and hopes his lifetime ban will one day be lifted.

Lance Armstrong has finally confessed to using performance enhancing drugs during his cycling career, admitting he cheated to win all seven of his Tour de France titles.

Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his 2000 Olympic Games cycling time trial bronze medal by the International Olympic Committee, continuing the once dominant American rider's spectacular fall from grace after a doping storm.

Lance Armstrong finally has confronted his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career, though he "did not come clean in the manner that I expected," talk show host Oprah Winfrey said a day after interviewing the disgraced athlete.

His fall nearly complete, disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong finally confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs in an interview today with Oprah Winfrey, USA Today reported.

Lance Armstrong plans to admit to doping throughout his career in an interview with Oprah Winfrey next week, the American cyclist's first interview since being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, USA Today reports.

The Sunday Times is suing disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong for around one million pounds over his libel action against the British newspaper in 2004.

Seven successive Tour de France races from 1999-2005 were officially declared without winners after the International Cycling Union (UCI) decided nobody would replace the disgraced Lance Armstrong as champion.

Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life after the International Cycling Union ratified the United States Anti-Doping Agency's sanctions against the American.

Lance Armstrong stepped down as chairman of the Livestrong cancer support charity he founded, as Nike Inc dropped the disgraced cyclist over the doping scandal that will likely cost him his seven Tour de France titles.

Lance Armstrong might take a lie detector test to clear his name from doping allegations, his lawyer said, as the ripples of the biggest scandal to hit cycling prompted Australian officials to consider an amnesty for cheats.

The five American cyclists who testified against Lance Armstrong have all been formally banned for six months after confessing to using performance enhancing drugs, USA Cycling says.

Lance Armstrong and his team ran the most sophisticated doping programme in sport according to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USDA), which has released its report on the case against the US Postal cycling team.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that retired cycling champ Lance Armstrong had filed in a bid to stop the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency from proceeding with a case charging him with using drugs during the years he won the Tour de France.

The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has brought formal doping charges against US cyclist Lance Armstrong and he has been immediately banned from competition in triathlons as a result, the Washington Post reports.

Attorneys for Lance Armstrong have demanded an on-air apology from "60 Minutes" after the head of Switzerland's anti-doping laboratory denied allegations the seven-time Tour de France winner tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs at the 2001 Tour de Suisse.

Lance Armstrong's former teammate, Tyler Hamilton, says Armstrong and other team leaders encouraged, promoted and took part in a doping programme in an effort to win the Tour de France in 1999 and beyond, according to a report aired in the US on "60 Minutes."