Russia's athletics federation was suspended in 2015 after a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found evidence of mass doping among the country's track and field athletes.
Bjarne Riis has taken on a lot of guises as one of cycling's most divisive characters and in the wake of his comeback as a WorldTour team manager says he'll apologise again for his doping past if he has to.
The Moscow anti-doping laboratory has had its approved status suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency in the latest development in the Russian doping scandal.
Two further German cyclists who have competed in the Tour de France have frequented a doctor accused of running a doping ring,Germany's ARD television reports.
Russia is to appeal against the four-year suspension imposed by WADA that will see the nation banned from competing at the 2020 Olympics and the 2022 World Cup.
If Russia interfered in the 2016 US election,it will fight even harder to restore its place in world sport ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games.
Senator Richard Colbeck,who sat on the WADA committee that banned Russia from international sport for four years,has defended the doping watchdog against claims the sanctions were not tough enough.
Russian athletes hoping to compete at the Tokyo Games will remain in limbo until the new year as the nation's president vows to fight WADA's four-year ban.
Plans to exile Russia completely from world sport were being drawn up by WADA's athlete committee as the backlash against the"Groundhog Day"ban intensified.
Russia,one of the great powers of the world,was turfed out of international sport for four years on Monday night,leaving conjecture over whether WADA should have gone harder.
As the world awoke to the news that Russia had been banished from international sport,Olympic track cyclist Shane Perkins was trying to figure out what it meant for his unlikely road to Tokyo.