| Hoy believes sport can move on from Armstrong disgrace Jan 18th 2013, 14:03 LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's most successful Olympian Chris Hoy believes cycling can now move on from the Lance Armstrong doping scandal while fans in a nation now in love with the sport have complete faith in their successful riders. American Armstrong, who had already been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, finally admitted to doping on U.S. television on Thursday in another hammer blow for a sport which has long battled a drugs problem. ... |  | No relief in sight for drought-stricken Plains Jan 18th 2013, 13:48 CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dry weather should continue through at least the end of January in the drought-stricken U.S. Plains and a blast of Arctic cold air in the Midwest early next week poses a threat to unprotected livestock and possibly some wheat, an agricultural meteorologist said on Friday. "The hard red winter wheat belt in the Plains looks quiet, dry and cooler next week, but there shouldn't be a cold air threat in the Plains," said John Dee, meteorologist for Global Weather Monitoring. ... | | Armstrong's "dark episode" is sad day for sport: IOC Jan 18th 2013, 13:13 (Reuters) - Lance Armstrong's confession of years of systematic doping in his once sparkling cycling career marked a sad day for sport and the former rider should provide evidence to end "this dark episode," the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Friday. Armstrong told chat show host Oprah Winfrey in an interview on Thursday he was a "flawed character" while at last owning up to being at the centre of one of the biggest drugs scandals in world sport. ... | | Armstrong joins disgraced sprint duo in hall of infamy Jan 18th 2013, 13:13 LONDON (Reuters) - A crooked path littered with empty vials and used syringes concluding in a televised confession of systematic doping led Lance Armstrong into the company of the infamous dope cheats who have sullied their sports. Armstrong told chat show host Oprah Winfrey on Thursday he had taken banned performance-enhancing drugs on each of his record seven Tour de France wins. He said they included erythropoietin, the drug at the centre of the 1998 Tour de France doping scandal, human growth hormone and blood doping. ... | | Armstrong admission was not enough: Bordry Jan 18th 2013, 13:13 NICE, France (Reuters) - Lance Armstrong should have elaborated on the way he cheated his way to seven Tour de France titles if he was to help in the fight against doping, the former head of the French Anti-Doping Agency said. "He should have said more. I think, like the president of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), that it's a little first step in the right direction," Pierre Bordry, a fierce opponent of Armstrong, told Reuters TV on Friday after Armstrong admitted to doping in a televised interview with chat show host Oprah Winfrey. ... | | Porsche 2013 U.S. sales may top record 35,000 last year Jan 18th 2013, 12:33 BERLIN (Reuters) - German group Porsche's U.S. sales this year, benefiting from growing demand for two-seaters, may top the record 35,000 sports cars and SUVs delivered in 2012. U.S. sales of the Volkswagen-owned Porsche division rose 21 percent last year, Porsche U.S. chief Detlev von Platen told Reuters on Friday. "I am quite optimistic about the outlook ... We notice strong demand for our models. The momentum is clearly there." The U.S. market accounts for about a quarter of Porsche's sales. ... | | Analysis: Facing drought, U.S. farmers return to crop rotation Jan 18th 2013, 12:02  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Farmers in top U.S. grain states are planning to rotate to other crops after repeated plantings of corn on the same fields, combined with a devastating drought in 2012, badly hurt yields. Farmers in Iowa and Illinois, which accounted for almost 30 percent of U.S. corn production in 2012, are expected to shift some acreage that was seeded exclusively with corn over the past several years to soybeans this spring. They want to avoid another year of potentially significant losses as dry conditions persist, said agricultural market analysts and economists. ...
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