Armstrong under doping watch
At Tour.
The Associated Press
WFLS News
Date published: 7/3/2009
PARIS (AP) - France's sports minister says Lance Armstrong will
be "particularly monitored" in anti-doping checks at the Tour de
France this year.
Roselyne Bachelot, speaking in an interview on French cable TV
on Friday, sent the warning to the seven-time Tour winner who has
come out of retirement to race again in cycling's showcase.
"The (doping) controls will be multiplied, and I tell Lance
Armstrong that he will be particularly, particularly, particularly
monitored," Bachelot told i-Tele.
The American has denied having taken banned substances during
his cycling career.
The head of France's anti-doping agency, which is working with
cycling's governing body UCI on doping checks for the race, has
said Armstrong will be treated like any other rider regarding drug
testing.
The International Cycling Union, responding to the damage done
to the sport by continual drug and cheating scandals, is planning<
more than 500 doping checks at this year's Tour.
"There needs to be a really very, very active fight against
doping," Bachelot said. "The organizers know how much a positive
doping test could have harmful effects."
The three-week race starts Saturday in Monaco.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Date published: 7/3/2009
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