Investigators in Cycling Doping Fraud Case Are Facing a Long, Hard Challenge
Nearly 200 professional cyclists will mount their bikes Saturday to start the Tour de France, a grueling 2,263-mile journey that kicks off in Rotterdam and ends 22 days later on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
An even longer and perhaps more difficult task is now in the hands of antidoping officials and federal investigators who seek to build a fraud case against Lance Armstrong and a group of his associates suspected of being involved in systematic doping.[…]