What a cop-out.
In taking the mushy middle ground of a proposed one-year doping ban for Alberto Contador, Spanish cycling officials are timidly sitting on the fence.
They’re apparently signaling that they believe the Tour de France champion’s story that tainted beef caused his failed drug test, but they’re shying away from the far tougher decision on whether to clear him completely.
If he doped, then Contador should be banished for two years, not one. That’s the rule … Details
A street-legal concept version of Volkswagen’s Dakar Rally Touareg could make it into limited production, company officials have revealed to Autocar at the Qatar motor show.
The Race Touareg 3 Qatar show car is only lightly modified from the Race Touareg 3 rally car that won the Dakar Rally earlier this month. Power for what VW calls “the world’s most  … Pictures & More