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Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Spain tested positive for a banned stimulant while winning this year's race and has been suspended by cycling's governing body.

Federal authorities have reportedly obtained an important piece of evidence linking Lance Armstrong to performance-enhancing drugs. Greg LeMond (pictured), a three-time Tour de France winner, secretly recorded a telephone call six years ago with a woman close to Lance Armstrong who was in Armstrong's hospital room in 1996 when he told cancer doctors about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Alberto Contador claimed his third Tour de France title after finishing safely in the bunch in the final stage won by Briton Mark Cavendish Sunday.

The riders of the Tour de France have been disrupted by sheep running across their path on a hard climb up the Pyrenees mountains.

Lance Armstrong says his hopes of an eighth Tour de France victory are "finished" after he struggled in the Alps and was caught up in three crashes during an eighth stage won by Andy Schleck of Luxembourg on Sunday.

In most sports, times shrink, but in the Tour de France, progress against drugs may be measured in rising times.

Lance Armstrong dismissed allegations that the seven-time Tour de France champion is a drug cheat and posted detailed e-mails on Team RadioShack’s website.

French prosecutors have reportedly launched a preliminary investigation against the Astana cycling team, following the discovery of syringes belonging to the squad during this year's Tour de France.

...at a beautifully slow pace. While this year's Tour de France cyclists struggled to overcome rain, cold and hills, I took a four-day bike trip in Denmark, one of the most cycle-friendly nations in the world.

Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong are sniping again after a fragile truce during the Tour de France. Contador, who secured his second Tour win on Sunday in Paris, said he had no admiration for the American as a person and tensions between the two had a negative effect on the Astana team.