Tour de France

[Biowatch]

NY Times article on it. Prudhomme angry. Very angry.

At a news conference Tuesday, a visibly angry Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour, said that the riders “are playing Russian roulette” by continuing to try to sneak doping practices past cycling officials. He called for an overhaul of the system of testing riders, which is overseen not by the Tour but by the International Cycling Union.

“The system doesn’t work,” he said, jabbing the table with his index finger. “A system that doesn’t defend the world’s most popular cycling race is a failure, and it can’t carry on.”

The news was the third drug scandal to arise during this year’s Tour.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/sports/sportsspecial1/25tour.html

"Le Tour de Farce"

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