Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Now a race succumbs

Riders have paid the price for doping, now cycling fans and the sport's supporting industries will suffer as well.
Organisers of the Tour of Stuttgart in Germany have cancelled their race, citing continuous doping scandals as their main reason. This is not the first strong stance a German body has taken over the doping issue. Last year German TV staged a boycott of the Tour de France citing similar reasons, a backlash of the T-Mobile doping discovery and Jan Ullrich's Fuentes scandal involvement.
Deutsche Welle has the Tour of Stuttgart piece on their website HERE .
What else is coming? Interesting times this.....

UPDATE!

Now, Tuan Haji Abu Samah Wahab, please pay attention to this. The 2007 women's World Road Race Champion Marta Bastianelli has been banned for a year. Doping is the cause and she (as she is a woman), never rode the Tour de France. ANSA has the report HERE . So, it isn't only the Tour de France as the race in which riders dope and it isn't only the men. Hope to enlighten you further in days to come. If you need to be refreshed on Tuan Haji Abu Samah's beliefs, go back to THIS posting of mine.

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