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What to think of our anti-doping authorities?

January 15, 2009

Catching up with cycling news from the end of 2008 ( CyclingNews – great website with all the news of the professional race scene), I saw that Floyd Landis was planning to pursue legal proceedings in the USA.
Having won the Tour de France in 2006, he was eventually stripped of his Yellow Jersey and banned [...]

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The Tour de France and the Dreyfus Affair.

December 10, 2008

Every year I look forward to the Tour de France as one of my highlights of the sporting year. I was fascinated recently to learn about the links between the Tour de France and the notorious Dreyfus affair of late 19th Century France.
Dreyfus was a Captain in the French artillery who was imprisoned [...]

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