Blame Spain for Doping in the Tour de France

[Millard Baker]

The desperation in the professional cycling is increasing as commentators try to explain away the pervasive doping problems in the sport. Cyclist David Millar asserts that performance enhancing drugs and doping thrive in the “wild west” of Spain. Millar makes an incendiary attack on the Spanish culture as unworthy of competing in the Tour de France:


“They have this culture embedded in them and they honestly believe it is not possible to do these things without (doping]. It’s sad. You see that Christian (Vande Velde, Millar’s Garmin team-mate] is third overall, and he is doing it without any injections, without anything. If you can’t do it like that then you are not good enough – it’s as simple as that. " [...]

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