Doping Scandal Strips Tour de France of Its Favorites
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › June 30, 2006
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STRASBOURG, France -- A doping scandal knocked Tour de France favorites Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso out of the race Friday and threw the world's most glamorous cycling event into chaos.
The decision to bar Ullrich, Basso and others implicated in a doping probe in Spain also sent a strong signal that cheating, or even suspicions of cheating, will not be tolerated.See the full content of this document
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Doping Scandal Strips Tour de France of Its Favorites
Tour director Christian Prudhomme said organizers' determination to fight doping was "total."
"The enemy is not cycling, the enemy is doping," he said the day before the start of the Tour.Riders being excluded will not be replaced, meaning a small...See the full content of this document
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