Stop the presses and someone stick a valium hypodermic in FF's tuschy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/sports/othersports/17cycling.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/sports/othersports/17cycling.html
And now, organizers of the Tour of California, who boasted after last year’s race that no riders tested positive for banned substances, have acknowledged that riders were not tested for what has become the sport’s most abused drug — the blood booster known as EPO.
That failure is more surprising because the lead sponsor of the Tour of California is Amgen, the California biotechnology company that produces the genetically engineered version of EPO, which is sold primarily to help cancer and dialysis patients battle anemia.