Earlier today Team Saxo-Tinkoff announced that Australian rider Michael Rogers is joining the team starting with the 2013 season.

Cyclists and other athletes to be banned for up to four years starting from 2015, advocates WADA President John Fahey and calls for additional funding to be provided to WADA to prevent cutbacks in anti-doping activities.

Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank owner Bjarne Riis is finding himself in an increasingly tight spot as pressure for him to comment on the accusations made by Tyler Hamilton rises further in his home country of Denmark.

American National Champion Timmy Duggan and Russian Evgeny Petrov have agreed to deals of a respectively one year and two year duration with the Denmark-based team. Japanese Takashi Miyazawa has extended his existing contract for another year.

How soon before checkmate?

The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency believes the Lance Armstrong case is just part of a wide-ranging doping battle that will never be won.

Lance Armstrong has cut formal ties with his cancer-fighting charity organization to avoid further damage brought by doping charges and being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.

A slow process but an achievable goal.

Olympic road race champion Alexandre Vinokourov is under investigation for allegedly bribing a rival to fix a race, as ongoing fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping affair threatens to claim another of cycling's biggest names.

If cycling leaders want a credible independent investigation about their possible cover-up of Lance Armstrong's doping, they must give the panel sufficient funding and resources.