No guarantees that Tour de France will be clean
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Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme conceded on Tuesday he could not guarantee a drug-free race when this year's event starts in London for the first time on July 7.
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The worldâs most famous bicycle race is: A) in the grip of doping, B) completely drug-free or C) somewhere in between and with a lot of explaining to do.
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TIGNES, France  - The days when seven-times winner Lance Armstrong was sewing up the Tour de France in the prologue or the first mountain stage are over.
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Six-times Tour de France champion Lance  Armstrong has strongly hinted he could miss the world's leading  cycling race next year to concentrate on other goals.
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Sport: Race organisers say Tour de France will have to come back to London after success of Grand DÃ©part.
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Changes to the rules, course and anti-doping measures for the Tour de France are unveiled.
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The Tour de France's reigning champion Alberto Contador may not get the chance to defend his title after his Astana team are banned from this year's race.
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The bib number one usually worn by the defending champion has not been awarded for this year's Tour de France, race organizers ASO said on Tuesday.
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Reigning Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has hinted that he may not contest the cycling race in 2005. The six-time Tour winner has not raced since his victory in Paris earlier in the year, choosing not to compete at the Athens Olympics.
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Halfway through the Tour de France, no compelling newcomer has broken through, no favorite has emerged and doping allegations have surfaced yet again. Cedric Vasseur became the first French rider to win a stage this year, but his victory and the Tour were overshadowed by the announcement of the doping test on cyclist Patrik Sinkewitz during a training session last month that turned up high levels of testosterone.
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While the cyclist who tested positive for doping at the Tour de France won't be identified until backup tests are complete, it does not appear to be any member of USA Cycling &#151; including champion Floyd Landis.
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Still hungry to race but wary he is not in the best shape, Lance Armstrong wants to take his Tour de France record to even mightier heights: He will try for a seventh straight title this summer.
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Lance Armstrong called it a &quot;witch hunt&quot; from the very beginning, saying a French newspaper used dubious evidence to accuse him of doping &amp;#151; even charging that lab officials mishandled his samples and broke the rules.
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Don't expect to see Lance Armstong or Tyler Hamilton at Wells Avenue in Newton Sunday; just expect to see a lot of cyclists who aspire to be like the Tour de France veterans.
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BRIGHTON, England - With strategically placed helmets and slogans painted on bare skin, scores of people shed their clothes and rode through this seaside resort on their bicycles Saturday to promote cycling as an environmentally friendly mode of transport.
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis will not take part in this year's race in order to concentrate on fighting doping charges on one front rather than two.
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The 2005 Tour de France may give others a chance to test Lance Armstrong. The mountaintop finishes are less intense and the time trials shorter - meaning the six-time Tour winner possibly has