Jan Ullrich News

Former Festina coach Antoine Vayer has cast doubt on performances produced by Miguel Indurain and Laurent Jalabert in Grand Tours during the 1990s, describing them as only being achievable by "mutants".

The Lance Armstrong affair has caused "enormous damage" to cycling, according to his former rival Jan Ullrich .

UCI president Pat McQuaid has said that it would be a defeat for the fight against doping if the blood bags seized as part of Operacion Puerto were not released for analysis.

Nicknamed " Il Falco " for the descending skills that carried him to the maglia rosa in both 2002 and 2005, few have better credentials than Paolo Savoldelli to analyse Bradley Wiggins ' tentative performances on the Giro d'Italia 's descents to date.

Eufemiano Fuentes, who last month was convicted of damaging public health and banned from working as a doctor for four years, is offering to sell his story to media outlets according to a report in The Guardian .