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One tractor in need of a jump-start to top

EVERY July, Christophe Bassons would line up for Stage One of the Tour de France knowing he had no chance of ever wearing the yellow jersey. Not because he was a domestique, the unheralded grinders who sacrifice themselves to help the star of the show. But because he played fair. In a sport more drug-addled than Ozzy Osbourne’s tour bus, the French rider steadfastly refused to ‘load the cannon’ – a slang term for the use of banned stimulant EPO.
By 1998, he was the only member of his team, Festina, who wasn’t injecting. When frustration boiled over and he sp...

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