Nice little piece of writing by Jordan Rapp
The Canary In The Coal Mine
Bonnie D. Ford of ESPN wrote an excellent piece on the Tour. In it, she talks about Sastre and Evans and the rest of the top-10 riders being escorted to doping control before doing any of the media events. Can you imagine that in baseball? Or football? Imagine the entire NY Giants team filing into a tent for blood samples before the accepted the Lombardi Trophy. Or Kevin Garnett being chaperoned off to a secret locale before donning his NBA Championship had. Unfortunately, I can't.
Shawn Merion had a positive doping test a few years ago and received a four game suspension, that he protested (so he kept playing) until it was convenient to serve. Can you imagine if the Chargers decided to leave the NFL for a season instead (as Sanier-Duval did this year)?Until baseball changed its drug testing policy, you had to be caught for doping FIVE TIMES in ONE YEAR in order to be suspended for a year.
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