German authorities, who have documents from the Operation Puerto investigation, said those documents show Tour de France winner Alberto Contador was involved in doping.

German authorities say they have received documents from doping expert Werner Franke that he claims show Tour de France winner Alberto Contador was involved in doping.

Austin-based Discovery rider Contador called into question. BERLIN — German authorities said Tuesday they have received documents from doping expert Werner Franke which he claims show Tour de France winner Alberto Contador was involved in doping.

Tour de France: Two days after winning the Tour, Alberto Contador has been linked to a Spanish doping investigation.

London wants to host another stage of the Tour de France by 2010, despite the doping scandals that marred this year's race.

Alexander Vinokourov has been sacked by his team, Astana, after his B sample for blood doping confirmed the positive test he registered after the time trial to Albi in the Tour de France.

Yesterday Alberto Contador became only the fifth Spaniard to win the Tour de France, but not even on the final stage could the race's persistent shadow of doping disappear.

On the wall of a bar in the Spanish village where I live there is a signed postcard of one of the 141 survivors of this year's Tour. It is of Juan Miguel Mercado, the only local rider taking part this year. Any customers watching the Tour broadcasts on the bar's television this year would have had a hard time spotting "Juanmi". A mountain specialist, he put in a couple of attacks on the lower ...

A doping expert says he has documents showing that Tour de France winner Alberto Contado doped during last year's Operation Puerto investigation.

Cliched photographs capture farm workers halting from their labours in idyllic landscapes or old men resting from their games of petanque outside the village bar as a nation applauds the peloton. Le Tour representsour annual renewal of anydiminished affection for France as the riders negotiate stages whose evocative names resonate almost magically in our psyche.