Chapter 19 Davanti at the Tour

DOI: 10.4324/9781003231837-19

Monday morning prior to the start of Junior’s staff meeting, all discussion is about the Tour de France and the disqualification of the Omega team.

“Looks like they used a substance that Sherpas in the Himalayas have known about for centuries; it’s used to help them through long hikes at high altitudes,” says Marco to no one in particular. “Of course, the riders didn’t chew herbs. The blood doping obviously was more effective.”

“Somebody will always be ahead of the Tour doping controls,” adds Leandro.

“There are rumors that the team’s doping research was funded in a foreign country,” says Constantine.

Junior looks uneasy during the conversation of doping, and suddenly everybody ...

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