How soon before checkmate?

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.

An Italian newspaper has printed e-mails and details of bank transfers that allegedly demonstrate how Alexandre Vinokourov paid off breakaway companion Alexandr Kolobnev to win the 2010 Liege-Bastogne-Liege cycling classic.

So much news, so little time. It's the end of the season, but that doesn't mean that the news stops.

What will be the repercussions of the Ullrich and Contador cases?

The computer hacking in cycling has become an epidemic.