This sort of headline disincentivises the actions taken, actions that deserve congratulations!
The Tour de France is not in tatters. The Tour is now cleaner and fairer (although totally clean and fair would be too much to expect) and so more welcome.
Congratulations on the decisions taken by the organizers and by some of the teams.
Drugs and suspicion of drugs are wrong and tough decisions are needed to change this. These decisions are going in the right direction.
Good governance!
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
See article:
Chaos and disgrace enveloped the Tour de France early Thursday after the event’s overall leader, Michael Rasmussen, was removed from the race by his Rabobank team for lying about where he was training.
The announcement came hours after Rasmussen, who had already been riding under suspicion of doping, won the 16th stage Wednesday and appeared to be in position to claim the championship of cycling’s most prestigious event on Sunday in Paris. The news came shortly after the withdrawal of a second team in two days from the Tour amid the ever-widening doping scandal that has rocked the sport since last year’s champion, Floyd Landis, was found to have failed a drug test on his way to the title.
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