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Cycling couldn't escape its history at this year's Tour de France and is wheeling into the future with contradictions and ambiguities. All the more reason why it needs some honest additions.

Cyclists are rolling into Paris on Sunday, and perhaps symbolic of their doping-tainted Tour, they ride by the Chatenay-Malabry lab where tests are conducted.

No one is doubting Alberto Contador's talent, but the Discovery rider is finding life as the Tour leader a little more daunting.

Alexandre Vinokourov and his Astana team, forced out of the Tour de France after Vinokourov's initial positive test for a banned blood transfusion, have retained the two lawyers defending 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis against doping charges.

Professional cycling is in public spaces. It's chaotic and edgy, thrilling and petty, full of arcane etiquette, rife with ego and political infighting, and often dysfunctional -- never more so than in the past 48 hours.

When word got out that Alexandre Vinokourov had tested positive for a blood transfusion, cyclists weren't immune to the familiar news. Just ask David Millar.

There was Michael Rasmussen's exchange with Alberto Contador at the end of Stage 14 and the Tour leader's continuing refusal to discuss the allegations against him. But there is a bigger communication breakdown at a higher level.

With some unexpected hopefuls rising from the ashes at the Tour de France, teams now face the toughest question heading into the mountains: who are they riding for?

Michael Rasmussen was at the center of another Tour de France controversy Friday and the latest allegations created more theater, and questions, in France.

It was all sprints and strategy Wednesday at the Tour before word got out about Patrik Sinkewitz's flunked drug test. It's a sad commentary for yet another team owner that must face the reality of a doping culture.

Team CSC already is making its mark at the Tour, but the club also is leading a strong cause off the road as young South African riders take on France.

It would be easier on everyone if what came out of the Floyd Landis doping arbitration hearing could be quantified somehow, but as ESPN.com contributor Bonnie DeSimone writes, closure remains elusive -- for everyone involved in the case against the 2006 Tour de France winner.

Floyd Landis, the 2006 Tour de France winner facing doping accusations, spent his final day on the stand dealing with more questions about a threatening phone call his former business manager made to Greg LeMond.

Floyd Landis got his first chance under oath Saturday to deny allegations he used testosterone in last year's Tour de France. As ESPN.com contributor Bonnie DeSimone writes, much of the testimony in Landis' hearing has distracted attention from the real issue -- whether lab tests were done properly and the results valid.

A virtually unknown cyclist took center stage in the high-profile Floyd Landis case Friday as the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency continued to put the sport as well as the Tour de France winner on tria

We do not yet know if Greg LeMond's testimony will have any impact on Floyd Landis' arbitration hearing, but it's a sure bet Landis' battle to win over public opinion took a massive hit Thursday.