Betrayed by performance

摘要

Heroics will be performed this July. The Tour de France lasts 21 days, covers 3600 kilometres and includes 25 lung-busting climbs in the Alps and Pyrenees. Each extraordinary performance in the race will, however, generate suspicion as well as admiration. Allegations of doping have plagued the Tour for so long that any rider who excels now inevitably attracts talk of drug use.