New Drug Shame Fears for Le Tour ; Hi-Tech Test May Catch Past Cheats During Race [Eire Region Edition 2]

Mail on Sunday › July 05, 2009

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THE threat of further drug revelations is hanging over the Tour de France after a Dutch cyclist was unmasked as a cheat more than 18 months after taking a banned substance.

The sample from Thomas Dekker was taken in December 2007 but tested positive for blood-booster EPO only after advances in technology.

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New Drug Shame Fears for Le Tour ; Hi-Tech Test May Catch Past Cheats During Race [Eire Region Edition 2]

The fear now is that further retrospective analysis will uncover more cheats during the sport's biggest event of the year, which ...

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