Everyone knows that the Tour de France has battled for many years, without any really tangible results, against the Drug taking of which Lance Armstrong has now been found guilty.
Jacques Anquetil who won the race five times in the 1960s refused successfully to submit himself, I believe, to every anti doping control he was asked to undertake.
He died young at the age of 45.
The Tour de France was riddled with drugs and in the end Tom Simpson died from what everyone believed at the time was an overdose of drugs !!! After his death, a new beginning without drugs was to start !!!
Alas it never did !!! Everyone concerned wanted "their" man to win and the Organisers needed the money from the "Publicity Bandwagon" to ensure their profitability !!!
To put it another way, the rules were not rigid, they were bent when a good reason obliged !!!
Even in the case of Armstrong, every television viewer saw when he "fell off his bike" in a field. One then saw Armstrong rejoin the race, not where he fell off his bike, but at the bottom of the field !!! That saved him at least 30 seconds, but no Tour Official dared to penalise him !!!
Penalising Armstrong is absolutely right !!! Now is the time to enforce doping rules strictly, once and for all time !!! And let's be clear, not only in Cycling but in all Sports.
What Sportsman can be proud to be a winner, but also a cheat ? In addition, any trainers who encourage Drugs in Sport should be banned for life !!!
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