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Thursday, 23 November 2006

David Millar says cycling has awoken to drugs threat

david millar Rider David Millar says that cycling has finally woken up to the threat posed by banned drugs, after the sport suffered several knocks to its image again this year, with the main one being the positive test for Tour de France winner Floyd Landis.

And David Millar says the Floyd Landis case in particular has made the sport realise it has a "fundamental cultural problem".

"It's waking up the sponsors and the team management to the problems they're facing," said David Millar and he added: "They've had their heads in the sand for too long."

Floyd Landis had failed a test for testosterone following his spectacular win on stage 17 in this year's Tour de France but he has protested his innocence, claiming there were a host of inconsistencies in the paperwork and results provided by the laboratory that analysed test results.

However, David Millar says that, whatever the outcome of that case, cycling now faces a real fight to regain its credibility.

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