Will Ale jet back in time for the Tour?

Blazin Saddles hopes there is a future in the peloton for Europcar as doubts over their future persist.Read full story...

Trying to predict a Tom Boonen-free Paris-Roubaix is like picking a winner for the Grand National at Aintree – you know, the annual British homage to equine cruelty where half the horses fall over and ...Read full story...

Cycling was left in a state of shock this week when Stefan Schumacher likened his career-long intake of performance enhancing substances to eating "a plate of pasta after training". This came as a surprise ...Read full story...

"We would have wanted to invite Tyler Hamilton for other reasons. But he has done a lot of wonderful things for a very wonderful sport and he has to be applauded for his courage to ...Read full story...

Andy Schleck's troubled season took another turn for the worse this week all because he shared an elevator with a French socialist politician who wasn't wearing his glasses. Details are sketchy, but in the ...Read full story...

This week Blazin' Saddles has been mainly pondering the panicked shopping list-related phone calls made by Dr Eufemiano Fuentes back in the day.Read full story...

Somewhere, somehow, someone's going to pay. That was the tagline for the 1985 American action-comedy Commando – and if reports are to be believed, that's very much what's going down behind the scenes at Blanco ...Read full story...

If Martians came down from space and all of a sudden picked up a passing interest in professional cycling, they'd be forgiven to think that the whole sport was centred around Ireland and the Irish ...Read full story...

The sight of big guns Joaquim Rodriguez, Chris Froome, Alberto Contador, Cadel Evans and Vincenzo Nibali going head-to-head on the Green Mountain in Oman had most cycling fans going weak at the knees. After ...Read full story...

There was a quite wonderful quote this week from twice Paris-Roubaix winner Fabian Cancellara. Quizzed about just what made him love the cobbled classics so much, Cancellara let rip with an animated answer that captured ...Read full story...

With a baggy grey suit and a open-collared white shirt covering his emaciated torso, Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen, looking pale, stressed and every bit the extra from Danny Boyle's Trainspotting, delivered the sport's latest bombshell: ...Read full story...

The second instalment of Lance Armstrong's gentle sparring with Oprah Winfrey was more of a let down than the American's clean comeback to cycling in 2009. If anything needed performance enhancing – this was it. ...Read full story...

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes! It started like that famous faked orgasm scene in the film 'When Harry Met Sally'. Although Meg Ryan certainly had more conviction while simulating the ecstasies of carnal pleasure than ...Read full story...