Four-time Tour de France winner Christopher Froome tested positive for an excessive amount of the asthma medication salbutamol, as confirmed by his B sample. Froome suffers from asthma and regularly takes salbutamol. He was found to have taken an excessive amount of the drug during a stage of this year's Vuelta. According to UCI rules, he will initially... read more
Cycling: The Russian hacker group 'Fancy Bear' has hacked the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and published internal documents and athlete reports. Among the 'victims' of the hack are Christopher Froome and Bradley Wiggins. The reports reveal some interesting details, even though no explicit doping violations are recorded. Now it has... read more
The third stage of the Tour of Catalonia took the peloton into the Pyrenees. Two challenging climbs were on the agenda: the Alt de la Creueta and the final climb to the mountain village of La Molina. The low temperatures made things even more difficult. Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) coped best with this. He took a powerful attack in the final kilometer of … read more
