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Tour De France to get more stringent- 13 May 2010 00:00:00

The French anti-doping agency (AFLD) will ask the International Cycling Union (UCI) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to be able to conduct their own additional anti-doping controls on the Tour de France this year.

WADA’s executive committee clarified a point in its recent anti-doping code which specifies that national agencies can conduct controls during competition in their respective countries.

AFLD president Pierre Bordry said: ‘We are a national agency, we are not qualified for an international competition but we can ask for supplementary controls. So we intend to ask them (UCI and WADA) while applying rules adopted this weekend.’

The AFLD can put in a request to the UCI at least 35 days before the start of the July 3rd-25th Tour de France.

The AFLD has recently been in negotiations with the UCI over who is responsible for anti-doping controls during the Tour de France.

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