Team Tinkoff-Saxo earlier today announced that Ivan Basso has signed a two-year contract with the Russian-registered WorldTour team. Basso thereby joins forces with Bjarne Riis, whom he rode for from 2004 to 2006 while being part of Team CSC.

Pat McQuaid gets more bad news & Spain tries to outlaw doping?

Earlier today Spain passed a new anti-doping law in what representatives say is an effort to clean up the country's tarnished image after the Operation Puerto case and boost Madrid's bid for the 2020 Olympics.

After seven years Operation Puerto comes to a conclusion - but at what cost?

The Spanish doctor at the heart of one of cycling's biggest doping scandals earlier today was found guilty of endangering public health and given a one-year suspended jail sentence in the Operation Puerto case.

It's 2013 and time for harsher punishments.

A "monumental cloud" will hang over Spanish sport until all the athletes involved in the Operation Puerto case are identified, according to the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Two former professional cyclists earlier today turned down requests to have their DNA analyzed to see if any of the blood bags seized by Spanish police as evidence in the Operation Puerto doping trial could be linked to them.

Just days after Lance Armstrong's doping admission, professional cycling is set for more damaging revelations when the long-delayed Operation Puerto case finally goes to court in Spain.