May 10, 2007 — The affects of cycling’s doping scandals are playing out as the big races in the sport approach. The following article appeared recently in the International Herald Tribune’s business section. Here are the opening comments and link to the article.

Cycling Struggles for Support as Doping Takes a Toll
by Doreen Carvajal

PARIS: With the Tour de France approaching this summer, the sport of cycling is taking brutal spills in corporate suites, where deals are made to sponsor competitions with cold attention to return on investment.

The annual Championship of Zurich – which had endured for almost a century, including through World War II – was canceled last month by Swiss organizers unable to enlist new sponsors to replace ex-backers spooked by the doping scandal that ensnared the American rider Floyd Landis.

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