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Tour De France - Former winners tested positive

With the latest revelations that former Tour de France winners Alberto Contador and Jan Ullrich both tested positive for performance enhancing drugs while competing in professional cycling, it's high time that somewhere along the chain, the testing process must become better and more stringent in order to catch out all cyclists that knowingly ingest substances that can improve their chances of success.

The Tour was once upon a time about stamina, discipline and a battle as much with your mind as with your legs, and while all these notions are still relevant, the playing field has a huge question mark hanging over it with the sheer volume of allegations and convictions handed down by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Indeed even Lance Armstrong, the greatest of them all, has been accused time and time

again of cheating the system.

I interviewed the recently-disgraced Ullrich last September and asked him on his thoughts on how to stamp out doping in the sport.

He said: “There are still issues that exist. For example, somebody could have a particular cup of coffee in the morning, and without knowing it they’ve done something they shouldn’t have, and could end up testing positive.”

Ullrich's comments are interesting, and if he is speaking the truth, it opens up another world that shows that the whole system is in grave need of a shake-up, with innocent riders being banned, and vice versa.

I accept that saying the system needs to be cleaned up is one thing, and implementing it is quite another, and that catching these guys out is often extremely difficult, but to preserve the ever-decreasing trust in the sport, chances must be made, now.

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