Tour de France

American rider Ted King fought back tears Wednesday as the Tour de France peloton rode away without him because he was too injured to complete the previous stage in regulation time. Some competitors felt race regulators were overzealous in excluding the Cannondale rider for being a fraction too slow in the team time trial.

At the Tour de France, it really isn't a cliche to say that every second counts. As a former winner, Cadel Evans knows that better than most. The 2011 champion was one of the losers Tuesday in the team time trial. Even riding bikes that cost as much as a good second-hand family saloon car, Evans and his teammates still couldn't keep up with two of his main rivals -- Chris Froome and Alberto Contador.

A funny thing about the Tour de France is that it can give competitors the most fabulous terrain on which to ride, but it cannot force them to race. Instead of being the tricky day full of traps and surprises that Tour teams feared and organizers hoped for, Stage 3 of the 100th edition proved a bit of a dud.

Britain's Chris Froome delivered a message to his Tour de France rivals on Sunday by briefly bursting clear of the pack. Such flair is unusual for the pre-race favorite so early in the three-week event.

Jan Ullrich, the 1997 Tour de France winner, has admitted for the first time that he received blood-doping treatment from Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes during his career, according to an interview with a German magazine published Saturday.

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has joined a lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that alleges the former, seven-time Tour de France champion concealed his use of performance-enhancing drugs and defrauded his long-time sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service, Armstrong's lawyers said Friday.

Now that Lance Armstrong has admitted in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he's a doper, a liar and a bully, many of those who saw their lives changed, some ruined, are going through a gamut of emotions.

He did it. He finally admitted it. Lance Armstrong doped. Right from the start and more than two dozen times during the first of a two-part interview Thursday night with Oprah Winfrey, the disgraced former cycling champion acknowledged what he had lied about repeatedly for years.

After a decade of denial, Lance Armstrong has finally come clean: He used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France.

Lance Armstrong has cut formal ties with his cancer-fighting charity to avoid further damage brought by doping charges and being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.