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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.

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.

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.

With its doping scandals and other controversies, professional cycling is careening down a path of disillusionment for those who follow the sport. Instead, ESPN.com contributor Bonnie DeSimone suggests, cycling deserves our attention and scrutiny as never before.

It's two days from the Tour de France prologue, and race organizers know some fans might be tuning out this year, critical of doping controversies and questions about great rides of years past. As ESPN.com contributor Bonnie DeSimone writes, those involved with the Tour -- riders, team owners and directors -- were peppered with doping questions Thursday.

With the start of the 2007 Tour de France in view, the lone U.S. cycling team in the Tour -- Discovery Channel -- still must find a new primary sponsor, deal with the larger doping issue facing cycling and find a way to get Levi Leipheimer to the podium, writes ESPN.com contributor Bonnie DeSimone.

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.

The Floyd Landis doping case nearly ground to a halt Tuesday as an interpreter struggled, but the hearing resumed with one of the chemists vouching for security procedures at the French lab.

Floyd Landis claims the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's lead attorney approached his lawyer asking Landis to provide information that implicated Lance Armstrong for doping.

Few people have more of a personal perspective on Floyd Landis' high-profile, expensive, draining doping case than retired track star Butch Reynolds.

Floyd Landis was tested a total of eight times during the Tour de France last year, and this is what is known about the results to date.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency presents its case against Tour de France winner Floyd Landis starting Monday, and as Bonnie DeSimone writes, Landis is determined to put the anti-doping system on trial, too.