26 July 2007

Le fin du Tour?

Last year the Tour de France suffered a severe blow when the Tour's "winner" American Floyd Landis failed a drugs test. This year has been even worse and one has to wonder if the event can survive after the holder of the yellow jersey, Michael Rasmussen of Denmark, was forced to withdraw from the race by his team over allegations that he dodged random testing whilst in training for the race. Frankly I don't see how any amount of drugs would make be capable of what is required to even finish the event let alone win it.

In related news Kazakhstan seems to be in denial after race favourite, Kazakh Alexandre Vinokourov, failed a drugs test and withdrew. Has Borat weighed in on this yet?

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