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NOW THAT the Tour de France is in full swing, one wonders if the annual innuendo about whether or not Lance Armstrong is clean will finally end after he cruises down the Champs Elysees for the last time -- wearing yellow, he hopes -- and rides off into the sunset with pop chanteuse Sheryl Crow on his arm
Maybe for Lance it will -- he is, as he likes to say, the most drug-tested athlete in history, and his tests have always come back clean. The same, however, cannot be said of some of his peers. Just last month at a Tour de France tuneup event, two riders were suspended for excessive levels of oxygen-carrying red blood cells, a strong indicator of blood doping.
For all of the recent headlines about blood doping and anabolic steroid usage in sports, high-tech gene-doping may soon have the dubious honor of rendering them obsolete. National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said as much earlier this year when he appeared before Congress during steroid hearings: ''When [gene-doping] happens, the issues that our society is...
Maybe for Lance it will -- he is, as he likes to say, the most drug-tested athlete in history, and his tests have always come back clean. The same, however, cannot be said of some of his peers. Just last month at a Tour de France tuneup event, two riders were suspended for excessive levels of oxygen-carrying red blood cells, a strong indicator of blood doping.
For all of the recent headlines about blood doping and anabolic steroid usage in sports, high-tech gene-doping may soon have the dubious honor of rendering them obsolete. National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said as much earlier this year when he appeared before Congress during steroid hearings: ''When [gene-doping] happens, the issues that our society is...