LONDON (Reuters) – The International Cycling Federation (UCI) has called again for a truth and reconciliation commission to examine its troubled sport following the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.

The American cyclist was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life last year for doping.

LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – The International Cycling Federation (UCI) has called again for a truth and reconciliation commission to examine its troubled sport following the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.

The American cyclist was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life last year for doping.

LONDON (Reuters) – Wales, who have lost all seven matches since completing a third Six Nations grand slam in eight years in 2012, have been struck by a series of injuries to their second row in the buildup to this year’s championship.

Locks Bradley Davies and Luke Charteris have been ruled out for the whole tournament and Alun Wyn Jones will miss at least the opening two matches.

LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Wales, who have lost all seven matches since completing a third Six Nations grand slam in eight years in 2012, have been struck by a series of injuries to their second row in the buildup to this year’s championship.

Locks Bradley Davies and Luke Charteris have been ruled out for the whole tournament and Alun Wyn Jones will miss at least the opening two matches.

LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Scotland resume the world’s oldest rugby union rivalry in their Calcutta Cup clash with England on the opening day of the Six Nations championship on Feb. 2 with a new coach and zero expectations on either side of the border.

The Scots, who finished bottom of the table last year, have not won at Twickenham for 30 years and while England concluded their November international campaign with a resounding win over world champions New Zealand, Scotland were defeated by Tonga.

LONDON (Reuters) – A crooked path littered with empty vials and used syringes concluding in a televised confession of systematic doping led Lance Armstrong into the company of the infamous dope cheats who have sullied their sports.

Armstrong told chat show host Oprah Winfrey on Thursday he had taken banned performance-enhancing drugs on each of his record seven Tour de France wins. He said they included erythropoietin, the drug at the centre of the 1998 Tour de France doping scandal, human growth hormone and blood doping.

LONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) – A crooked path littered with empty vials and used syringes concluding in a televised confession of systematic doping led Lance Armstrong into the company of the infamous dope cheats who have sullied their sports.

Armstrong told chat show host Oprah Winfrey on Thursday he had taken banned performance-enhancing drugs on each of his record seven Tour de France wins. He said they included erythropoietin, the drug at the centre of the 1998 Tour de France doping scandal, human growth hormone and blood doping.

LONDON (Reuters) – London defied Britain’s wettest summer for 100 years, potential transport and security chaos and a depressed economy to stage a marvelous 2012 Olympics during a magical year for British sport.

Over the past century Britons have become resigned to watching the rest of the world beat them at games they had either invented or codified at the height of the island nation’s imperial splendor.

LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) – London defied Britain’s wettest summer for 100 years, potential transport and security chaos and a depressed economy to stage a marvellous 2012 Olympics during a magical year for British sport.

Over the past century Britons have become resigned to watching the rest of the world beat them at games they had either invented or codified at the height of the island nation’s imperial splendour.

LONDON (Reuters) – Any comfortable assumptions that world cricket has largely eradicated corruption after the shock of the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal are challenged in a disturbing new book investigating India’s illegal bookmaking underworld.

In “Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy; A Journey to the Heart of Cricket’s Underworld”, English author and cricket betting tipster Ed Hawkins says his confidence in the sport has been eroded “on the long trip to cricket’s corrupt core”.