Just when you think the off-season news cycle might slow down, it kicks into overdrive.

Twice Tour de France champion Alberto Contador’s Team Saxo-Tinkoff was surprisingly granted an automatic spot for the top pro road cycling races of the 2013 season, at the expense of world number one Joaquim Rodriguez’s Katusha team earlier today.

Is change in the wind or is it the sweet scent of revenge?

Greg LeMond says the president of the International Cycling Union can't remain in his job while a panel examines possible links between the organization and the doping case involving Lance Armstrong.

What the UCI says is an independent panel is set to examine possible links between cycling's governing body and the Lance Armstrong doping case.

It takes more than points to make it to the WorldTour.

Alberto Contador says he will boycott the 2013 Tour de France if Bjarne Riis' Saxo-Tinkoff Team isn't granted a WorldTour license for 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.

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.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has asked Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) board president John Coates to help choose a team to investigate the governing body's links to the Lance Armstrong doping case.