sportingbet.com.au – Cycling
Category: AFL Online
www.sportingbet.com.au – The sport of cycling has been brought even further into disrepute following the recent discovery that yet another cyclist has tested positive to doping.
Austria’s Bernard Kohl, who received the Polka Dot jersey for king of the mountains and finished third on the podium in the overall classification, returned a positive test to the drug EPO Cera.
To Bet on AFL {sporting bet:Link:CLICK HERE }
{sporting bet:b1}
Kohl now stands disgraced along side Riccardo Ricco, Leonardo Piepoli and Stefan Schumacher who were all thrown out of this year’s Tour de France.
The latest scandal follows last year’s revelation in which the eventual Tour winner, Floyd Landis, was stripped of his title and banned from cycling.
Many believe that the damage done by drug cheats in the sport of cycling is irreversible.
In the build up to this year’s Tour, organizers insured spectators and competitors alike that this would be a clean Tour, with new measurement taken to ensure that no attempts at doping would go undetected.
However just days into the race, three cyclists tested positive to doping and although Kohl road the entire tour and was tested between July 3rd and 15th, results of those tests were not revealed until this weekend.
Kohl’s team is furious with the Belgium rider who only came to prominence in this year’s Tour, vowing to immediately cancel his contract if the results are proven to be accurate.
These latest results have implications for seven time Tour winner Lance Armstrong who only just this year announced his return to cycling amid allegations he may have used illegal performance enhancing drugs over the course of his career.
Armstrong, who is making his return to the sport to raise awareness of cancer, scoffed at the allegations, vowing to return to his former glory and take out an eighth Tour de France.
For www.sportingbet.com.au {sporting bet:Link:CLICK HERE }