I had expressed exactly this suspicion just an hour before I learned the news. Its strange to me it’s not bigger on the internet. Drudge doesn’t have it, and even stranger, Google news doesn’t have it in their sports headlines, even if you click to get the expanded version. I thought Google tried to be “intercontinental”.
It’s a sad thing to me ... just when I was getting interested in the TV coverage, too! The extreme physiological stress of this kind of racing seems to create an irresistible motivation to gain the advantage that only doping can give, so I hardly know what could even be done about it that they aren’t doing already.
The interesting thing is that it really provides a strong disincentive for other sports to clean up performance enhancing drug use. After all, here’s cycling trying to do the right thing and just getting hammered for it. Had they opted for no testing at all there’s no doubt the sport would currently be in better shape.
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TEAM Astana have withdrawn from the Tour de France after Alexandre Vinokourov tested positive for a banned blood transfusion.
What the hey?