US Anti-Doping Agency chief Travis Tygart says Lance Armstrong lied in his confessional interview with Oprah Winfrey, and the shamed cyclist has until February 6 to "cooperate fully" if he wants to lessen his life ban.

US Anti-Doping Agency chief Travis Tygart says Lance Armstrong lied in his confessional interview with Oprah Winfrey, and the shamed cyclist has until February 6 to "cooperate fully" if he wants to lessen his life ban.

Cycling's world governing body accepted Friday the need for a "truth and reconciliation" hearing following the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, in a shift from its previous position.

Lance Armstrong's doping scandal was both disappointing and sad, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge told AFP Thursday.

Two readers once inspired by Lance Armstrong's books and now irked by his confession of doping are suing the disgraced cyclist in a California court.

The former head of world cycling on Wednesday said that the sport's governing body previously warned riders that they were at risk of failing drug tests but denied that there was every a cover-up of positive results.

Germany's only Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich, currently banned from cycling, has been criticised for not following Lance Armstrong's example and breaking his silence on doping.

Disgraced Dutch cyclist Thomas Dekker has promised to spill the beans on the doping culture in the sport and name names, he announced on Wednesday.

French rider Steve Houanard was on Tuesday banned for two years by world cycling's governing body, the UCI, after testing positive for banned blood booster EPO.

Lance Armstrong's life story is headed to the silver screen, US media reported Monday on the heels of the disgraced athlete's doping admission.

An Australian library has found itself in the spotlight after it put up a sign declaring all books by disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong would soon be moved to the fiction section.

Former US Anti-Doping Agency chief Terry Madden told US media that Lance Armstrong did offer USADA a donation in 2004, contrary to the shamed cyclist's claim in a confessional TV interview.

Shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong wants to return to competitive sport, but says the driving force behind his belated doping confession was the well-being of his five children.

Shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong, shorn of cycling's greatest prizes and expelled from sport, wants to compete again and doesn't believe he deserved the "death penalty" of a life ban.

The harm that Lance Armstrong caused his family, sponsors and fellow cancer survivors by years of lying and denials of doping will be revealed Friday in part two of his interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The harm that Lance Armstrong caused his family, sponsors and fellow cancer survivors by years of lying and denials of doping will be revealed Friday in part two of his interview with Oprah Winfrey.

During Lance Armstrong's reign, dozens of riders would bow to the superiority of the man labelled the 'Boss' because of his iron-fisted rule on the Tour de France peloton.

Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, the cycling race's only American champion not to be disqualified for doping, says Lance Armstrong's claim he had to cheat to win hurts all winners.

Lance Armstrong was on Friday urged to make a full confession about the scale and scope of his doping activities, after publicly admitting that his record seven Tour de France wins were fuelled by banned drugs.

Lance Armstrong has finally admitted that his seven Tour de France wins were fuelled by a frightening cocktail of banned drugs, in one of the most sensational confessions of cheating in the history of sport.