Tour De France Starts With a Morning Doping Raid - Track Needs to Take Notes

If I had to make a guess I’d say that doing is just as prevalent.

However what riders can get away with now is likely a noticeable but not huge boost.

Back in the epo era you did epo or looked like a local novice rider. Drugs they can get away with now certainly help but it’s nothing like that.

The French must really have their suspicions.

"The Bahrain Victorious inquiry came back into focus
earlier this week, when it emerged that police had searched the homes of
riders and staff in Belgium, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Poland and
Slovenia, while the team hotel was raided in Copenhagen at dawn
yesterday.

Eurojust provided this breakdown of the items seized in those
searches:

In Italy, several locations were searched and a range of electronic equipment (including laptops, smartphones, hard disks and pen drives), pharmaceutical substances and
supplements were seized.

In Belgium, a computer, a mobile phone and capsules with undetermined content were seized in one house search.

In Poland, one house search was carried out. A series of electronic devices and pharmaceutical substances were seized.

In Slovenia, 412 capsules with undetermined brown content and 67 capsules
with undetermined white content were found, and one mobile phone was
seized in a house search.

In Spain, houses and premises were searched and electronic devices were seized.”

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Europol confirms Bahrain Victorious Tour de France raids centred on 'use of prohibited substances'

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Update: Eurojust says 479 capsules of 'undetermined content' seized in Slovenia

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In the spirit of equal fairness to ALL teams I hope they had a really, really, really, REALLY strong case even before going in.

For comparison: Imagine the headlines if just one of the superbowl teams were raided early morning game day...

Reports from France said several truckloads of empty syringes were hauled off.

If you're interested in 'fair,' you have a lot more to worry about than doping.

Not only that but bikes are always improving.

They weren’t looking for dope. It was all pretense to investigate a hot lead from Faux News that Hillary’s lost email server was in there, you know the one the *proves* she’s Satan!! 🤣🤣

It's healthier for them to dope than not dope. The tour destroys the body. I want them to take EPO. I want them to take steroids. I want them to be healthy.

Let them dope. Nobody f-ing cares. It's entertainment and the more spectacular the better.

Lol, seriously there's no way Jos would allow Seb to raid the "only running team" (NN). The public would soon find out that every record from 5k to the Marathon is dirty.

they need to do something substantial pretty quick. this is appalling timing and they must know that. the seizures mean nothing. if the rozzers raided my gaff they would easily take several laptops and loads of pills / pharmaceutical substances. so what?

presumably they had to present some pretty damning evidence to a magistrate or similar to get the search warrants. if the same evidence was given to the tdf organisers, would they still be racing?

Fairness isn't what the police are interested in, they only care about possible supply and possession of illegal drugs and possible international trafficking.

Yes. Also there is a reason while Seb continues fighting against criminalization of doping and against transparency.