Shock! Horror! Those lycra clad men and their velos are at it again. As the tour sinks once again under floods of positive drugs tests, rumours and accusations you just have to wonder what the organisers are on apart from another planet. It's like playing cricket with those really hard corky balls - or is that a condition of riding bikes with hard, narrow seats whilst wearing tight lycra?- there isn't a good reason for it really. Of course they're going to resort to underhand methods when the tour is so bloody hard. They ride 200km up and down steep hills, have to cycle back to their hotels risking life and limb from errant spectators on the way and then get up the next day and do it all again. Sacre bleu they must need something to help them get through, a bit like being an undergraduate in the70s and 80s I guess. Still they could always have a future in the Brown cabinet.