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No more a tour de farce?

JOHN IBBITSON

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 8:12 AM EST 17/07/08

It's been an amazing start, and all three key riders may even be clean. ...Read the full article

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  1. john chuckman from Canada writes: Why select the Tour for these comments?

    Can you name a sport, either at the amateur or professional level, that is not totally contaminated with this?

    Steroid-induced home-run champs?

    Steroid-induced pitching wonders?

    Steroid-induced football linesmen with necks like tree trunks?

    The Olympic guessing game? Which athletes took which drugs?
  2. Derek R from Streetsville, Canada writes: The Tour de France is perhaps the greatest sporting event in the world, and certainly the most gruelling endurance event. I really hope they've turned the corner on doping.
  3. Maxwell Maxwell from Canada writes: Big John is merely holding a mirror up on today's sporting world. Don't shoot the messenger, but I think he he's implying that, no, we haven't turned the corner.

    Here's betting the columnist is already drawing similarities bewteen the political and sport worlds.
  4. james p from Canada writes: Vive Le Tour.
  5. Carolyn Bongiorno from Glenham,NY, United States writes: You're certainly unpredictable, Mr. Ibbotson.
  6. Tony Jones from Canada writes: I simply stopped watching, I'll try again 10 years down the line.
  7. Tom Beshoff from East York, Canada writes: Hahaha. Within a few hours of this article coming out, a Spanish rider was detailed, and an entire team pulled out because of drug concerns. It is indeed a farce.

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