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It's been a long time coming, but Spaniard Carlos Sastre has finally lived up to his promise as a Grand Tour contender and taken the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.

Cycling's image is in tatters, and authorities inside and outside the sport are being tougher than ever on doping.

Doping is back at the Tour de France. It did not stay away very long. The peaceful lull that had observers feeling optimistic did not last longer than a week, and the showcase race that was plunged into depths ...

Frank Schleck of Luxembourg likes to attack. He also likes the look of his yellow jersey.

PRATO NEVOSO, Italy - Oscar Pereiro of Spain has pulled out of the Tour de France after breaking his shoulder in a crash.

Following cycling is more and more like watching Shakespeare - or bad Reality TV.

Officials at the Tour de France scrambled Thursday to limit fallout from the third doping bust in this year's race, which netted the biggest name yet: Italian star Riccardo Ricco, a winner of two stages.

Manuel Beltran was kicked out of the Tour de France by his Liquigas team after failing a doping test, just hours after fellow-Spaniard Luis Leon Sanchez won a turbulent seventh stage of the race.

Cadel Evans and Italian rider Riccardo Ricco before Wednesday's stage. Photo: Getty Images Rupert Guinness Foix FOR years Cadel Evans has dreamt of wearing the Tour de France yellow leader's jersey, but after ...

The Tour de France was thrown into chaos again Thursday after Italian rider Riccardo Ricco became the third rider to test positive for the performance enhancer EPO.

From the Sports Desk... The once cool Tour de France continues it's steady slide into obscurity.

SPANISH rider Luis Leon Sanchez of the Caisse d'Epargne team won a dramatic seventh stage of the Tour de France, a 159km ride from Brioude here today.

George Hincapie, right, leads teammate and overall leader Kim Kirchen, center, and Alejandro Valverde, left.

Manuel Beltran became the first doping casualty of the 2008 Tour de France when he was kicked out of the race Friday after testing positive for EPO.

Spain's Luis Leon Sanchez won the 159km seventh stage of the Tour de France from Brioude to Aurillac.

It may keep Barry Bonds out of the Hall of Fame. It cost Marion Jones her Sydney Olympic medals and sent her to federal prison.

Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong helped put cycling on the American map, but they're not the only Americans who gave us great moments at the Tour de France.

It's a shame, the Floyd Landis case. And not just because the disgraced American cyclist, who lost what hopefully is his last appeal, deluded himself into thinking he could buy and harass his way out of charges ...

If drug testing is in the news again, then it must be time for ... the Tour de France? What timing.

TOUR DE FRANCE BBC coverage: Daily text commentary, reports and gallery on the BBC Sport website and live audio commentary from BBC Radio 5 Live Valverde is one of the favourites to win the Tour de France ...