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The much awaited Tour De France gets underway, today

The long awaited and the world’s biggest race gets underway at London, today. A teams of 189 riders, the 94th Tour de France scheduled to end on July 29th 2007, with twenty stages will cover a ground of 3,550 kilometres. A massive number of fans had gathered at Trafalgar Square to mark the opening ceremony [...]

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Landis loses appeal and held guilty for doping

The 2006 edition of Tour de France enabled Landis in capping one of the most remarkable comebacks in cycling history but for now he cannot boast it for long, as he has been stripped off the title after a panel upheld a two-year ban on the cyclist and rejected his appeal against it. Since Landis’s [...]

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Banned cyclist Floyd Landis drags on his innocence plea

In 2006, Floyd Landis became the first Tour de France winner to be stripped off the title. The reason was that he tested positive for doping during the race. More than one year has passed and this year’s race is already over but the controversy drags on. An US arbitration panel judged in September that [...]

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