Dear Explainer,Whenever I read about Floyd Landis’ disqualification from the Tour de France it’s always referred to as the first rider to be “stripped of his title of his title for a doping violation.” Why the qualification? Isn’t he just the first guy to ...

Dear Explainer,Katusha? Isn’t that the rockets that have and are killing Americans? Am I wrong? What does Katusha have to do with cycling and why does Katusha have a ProTour license?!?!Jim ...

They are two of Great Britain’s hottest sports stars, both vying to be the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year, but they specialize in vastly different disciplines. Thirty-two-year-old Chris Hoy won three gold medals on the velodrome at this summer's Beijing Olympics and ...

Dear Explainer dude,I know that most of us talk as if this time of year is known as the “off-season,” but for some of us — and me in particular — this is the height of the cycling season. I love ‘cross. When I ride on the road, I’m thinking of cyclocross; when I ...

After trading barbs over a four-year-old incident during the Tour de France, Italian champion Filippo Simeone and American Lance Armstrong have apparently buried the hatchet.

Dear Explainer,Is there an instance in which a rider returning from a two-year ban has been caught doping again?

A federal jury has awarded more than $300,000 to mountain bike racer Susan Haywood for USA Cycling’s failure to report race results to the UCI, an act of negligence, the court concluded, that cost her a spot on the 2004 Olympic team. In the summer of 2004 Haywood was ...

Dear Explainer, I apologize if this is a dumb question, but when I heard Lance Armstrong was going to race the Giro next year I was confused. Wasn't there a warrant for his arrest or something of that nature in Italy for something akin to witness intimidation?Rick ...

Dear Explainer guy,Why is blocking such a rarely used tactic? It seems that when there is a long breakaway that teams with riders in the break do not block or slow down the chase. Why is that? More typically, these riders do not take a turn at the front. I would think it ...

Dear VeloNews,For years, I’ve been watching the Tour, the Giro and the Vuelta and can’t understand how people — especially announcers — continually refer to riders having an advantage when they have teammates setting tempo on a big climb.While I understand ...

Tour de France king of the mountain Bernhard Kohl admitted on Wednesday that he had doped in preparation for this year’s race. In a Wednesday evening press conference in Vienna, Austria, Kohl took full responsibility for a “bad decision,” driven at least in part by the ...

Dear VeloNews,So now that Ricardo Riccò, Stefan Schumacher, Leonardo Piepoli and Bernhard Kohl have all tested positive for CERA, what happens to the results they achieved during the Tour de France? Riccò, Schumacher and Piepoli “won” five stages among them and ...