Bernhard Kohl will be dropped by his team after his positive doping test. Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images
The Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl is to be dropped by the Silence-Lotto team after he tested positive for the blood-boosting substance CERA.
Kohl, who came third in this year’s Tour de France, had signed a contract with Silence-Lotto of Belgium [...]

Reports suggest that Lance Armstrong could return to the Tour de France next year. Photograph: Peter de Jong/ AP
Rumours that the American cyclist Lance Armstrong will come out of retirement next year to compete in five road races, enabling him to compete for an eighth Tour de France title, have sparked confusion.
Armstrong, 37 next week, [...]

The peloton of the Tour of Britain passes the London Eye on the first stage of the race. Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images
These are heady times for British cycling. Two weeks on from the almost embarrassingly lavish success at the Beijing Olympics, yesterday was the opening day of the Tour of Britain in central London. Cycling [...]

Bradley Wiggins and Steven Burke on the podium. Photograph: Reuters
A one-two for Britain in the men’s keirin provided the perfect finish to the day’s events in the Olympic velodrome. As expected, Chris Hoy dominated the final to win his second gold medal of the Games and third in total, with Ross Edgar producing an explosive [...]

Jamie Staff and Chris Hoy on the track. Photograph: Brandon Malone/Action Images
A day before Britain’s track cyclists take to the velodrome a top English Institute of Sport coach said that many of his charges in the cycling team have been pedalling faster than ever and pushing bigger weights than before in the run-up to the [...]

Emma Pooley, riding her own race. Photograph: Empics
So now there is a little piece of the Great Wall of China that will be forever British. And when Emma Pooley followed up Nicole Cooke’s triumph by becoming the first British woman to take an Olympic time-trial medal on the circuit around the Ju Yong Pass on [...]

Competitors ride during the men’s cycling road race at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Photograph: Martin Bernetti/AFP
Spain’s incredible sporting summer took another surprising step when Samuel Sanchez added the Olympic road race gold medal to the country’s trophy cabinet, already overflowing after Carlos Sastre’s Tour de France victory, Alberto Contador’s win in the Giro d’Italia, [...]