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Tour de France awash in doping questions, controversies

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, July 5, 2007

LONDON -- As befits a big show, the annual kick-off events for the Tour de France are always placed in a large exhibition hall. This year is no exception, as the enormous, fractious Tour family gathered Thursday at ExCel London on the dockyards of the Thames River, occupying a set of two-story-high rooms right down the concourse from a gynecologists' convention. Some things never change about the Tour start, majestically known as Le Grand Depart. The 21 teams reported for medical checkups and t ...

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