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If you're looking for something a little unusual, might I recommend Inside the Tour de France? It's my favourite cycling book, in my opinion comes closer than anything else to explaining the wonder of the Tour, and – added bonus – it's written by David Walsh. Yup, the David Walsh. It's...

Yup, true. But python just asked for examples of individual riders who had been excluded. Didn't specify that it should be riders who had/hadn't been investigated/cleared. Otherwise it's a much harder question :)

I can give you four, all from the 2006 Tour: Jan Ullrich and Oscar Sevilla (T-Mobile; Rudy Pevenage was also banned from the race) Ivan Basso (CSC) Franciso Mancebo (AG2R) All univited the night before the race started due to links with Operación Puerto.

Christian Prudhomme says he is "surprised" by CAS' decision to delay Contador hearing. Original Eurosport France article. My English-language translation.

But can we really expect this argument to stand up in a legal setting? The fact is that the tests weren't positive based on the criteria used at the time.

It seems Bruyneel is at home.

For what it's worth, here's my translation of the L'Equipe piece. Not perfect, but may be better than the Google Translate version. The fact the results are borderline makes me think that, as others have said, this isn't going to be the smoking gun that it may initially have looked like...