Tour de France winner has given a positive drug test.

[Joey Jones]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/5221122.stm

[G_Man]

Quel surprise

[LFCman]

Disgrace. Didn't he say that his win was a great boost for fair athletes too?

[Resu]

Big surprise.
I remember seeing him on the 16th and the 17th stage.
My first thought was drugs, or the best night of his life

[MrsB]

Big surprise.
I remember seeing him on the 16th and the 17th stage.
My first thought was drugs, or the best night of his life

Exactly my thoughts - without the night part.

[Resu]

Exactly my thoughts - without the night part.

Well, I didn`t really think the night thing either.
So all I thought was drugs.
But there is something in what Tom Boonen said, that they make Tour de France so hard that the only way to get through it and have anything to give at the end is to take drugs.

[Finnish_Red]

This medicine business is crap. They should use the same methods as the racers did back in the early days, drink wine and smoke cigarettes to "open up the lungs".

[MrsB]

Which earlier days exactly? Doping isn't new, and athletes died from it earlier.

Wikipedia Link

[Finnish_Red]

I didn't say doping was something new, just wanted to lighten things up a bit with some historical stuff about Tour de France.

What I do think is idiotic is that there's an industy of its own now days that specializes in making new substances that can't yet be tested. It's a bloody race between them and WADA.

[MrsB]

Yes, it is.

The best medical staff wins Le Tour, not the best cyclist.

[fah-q]

File this under predictable things to happen in sport.

[darkstar]

what a corrupt sport. Tour de France's record makes the Serie A scandel look like boy's play.

[TheStig]

Well, I didn`t really think the night thing either.
So all I thought was drugs.
But there is something in what Tom Boonen said, that they make Tour de France so hard that the only way to get through it and have anything to give at the end is to take drugs.

Not sure Boonen really has a point, I'm certain there are many who've finished the Tour de France without drugs.

EDIT: Take a look at this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/othe...ng/5254402.stm

Dunno why he doesn't just cut his losses and admit it.