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Team LottoBelisol's Andre Greipel sprints to stage victory in final stage of 2012 Santos Tour Down Under; Team GreenEdge's Simon Gerrans wins 2012 Santos Tour Down Under.

Spain's Alejandro Valverde of Team Movistar made an emotional return from a twoyear doping ban by winning the fifth and longest stage of the 2012 Santos Tour Down Under earlier today, closing in on overall victory in the first event of the 2012 UCI WorldTour.

Team Movistar's Alejandro Valverde sprints to stage victory in comeback race; Team GreenEdge's Simon Gerrans takes overall lead in 2012 Santos Tour Down Under.

Team Katusha's Oscar Freire grabs stage victory in sprint as Team BMC Racing's Martin Kohler regains overall race lead in 2012 Santos Tour Down Under.

Team LottoBelisol's Andre Greipel powers to 2nd stage victory in 2012 Santos Tour Down Under and reclaims overall race lead.

Germany's Andr Greipel won the third stage of cycling's Tour Down Under in a bunch sprint Thursday to regain the overall lead he had conceded a day earlier.

Australian William Clarke won the second stage of cycling's Tour Down Under on Wednesday, defying the peloton in one of the boldest individual breakaways in the history of the WorldTour event.

Team UniSA's Will Clarke solos to stage victory in 2012 Santos Tour Down Under; Team BMC Racing's Martin Kohler takes overall race lead from Andr Greipel.

Team LottoBelisol's Andre Greipel powers to stage victory ahead of Alessandro Petacchi (LampreISD) and Hutarovich of Team FDJBigMat.

What will be the repercussions of the Ullrich and Contador cases

Vuelta a Espana organizer Unipublic earlier today unveiled a 2012 route that favors climbers in a race confined to the north of the country.

According to AP, lawyers working to prove that Alberto Contador doped at the 2010 Tour de France came "very close" to walking out in protest at his hearing before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Photos from the Omega Pharma Quick Step team's first training camp of 2012.

Team Sky's British cyclist Mark Cavendish blames a "genuine" administrative error for missing an outofcompetition drug test in April last year while riding for Team HTC.

Two years after Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford's declared he wanted a British rider to win the Tour de France by 2014, the road racing team now have the manpower to target both the yellow and green jerseys in the threeweek race.

Team Sky earlier today revealed the 28 riders that will make up the team's squad for the 2012 pro road cycling season and presented Mark Cavendish in his Team Sky World Champion jersey.

Mark Cavendish hopes fellow British rider David Millar will be free to compete in the 2012 Olympics despite Millar's previous ban for doping.

Pro cycling team Movistar has signed 2011 Vuelta a Espana Champion Juan Jose Cobo in a twoyear deal.

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Bradley Wiggins hinted he would put his personal interest before Team Great Britain's at the Olympics because the London 2012 scheduling may force him to conserve energy in the road race.

Alexandre Vinokourov is taking legal action against Swiss magazine L'Illustre over a report claiming he bribed a fellow cyclist in order to win the 2010 LiegeBastogneLiege race, his Astana team announced in a statement earlier today.

The computer hacking in cycling has become an epidemic.

Former world road cycling champion Alessandro Ballan will lead Team BMC Racing in the absence of Tour de France Champion Cadel Evans at the 2012 Santos Tour Down Under, the first event of the 2012 UCI WorldTour.

A few doping cases are finally making their way through the system. Why is it taking so long and what type of message does it send to the cycling fan

Alberto Contador (Spain) today went to sport's highest court to argue his case that contaminated meat caused his positive drug test at the 2010 Tour de France.

Track cycling world champion Alex Rasmussen was cleared of charges connected to missed doping tests by the Denmark Sports Federation (Danmarks Sports Union) doping committee earlier today.

Spanish pro cycling team Movistar says rider Alejandro Valverde, who is banned for doping, has been stopped by the sport's governing body UCI from attending a team presentation ceremony presenting him as a new team member.

Sometimes you realize that your sport's hero is just a guy with faults of his own.

Alberto Contador can expect to find out in January if he will keep his 2010 Tour de France victory or be stripped of the title for doping.