From the Archives: Doping in the Tour de France - Sports Bizarre

Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily

With just a few days to go, we look back at the history of doping in the Tour De France.

From the first Tour De France, riders were putting all kinds of things in their bodies, caffeine, strychnine, cocaine and alcohol.

Drugs were so much part of the sport that the 1930 rulebook, given to all riders, reminded them that drugs would not be provided by the organisers.

Titus O’Reily and Mick Molloy look at the use of doping in the Tour De France from 1903 until the Festina Affair in 1998, the year before Lance Armstrong ‘won’ his seven consecutive yellow jackets.

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