So much for a clean Tour. French sports daily lEquipe has reported the first confirmed positive doping test result this year. Spaniard Manuel Triki Beltran, of the Liquigas Team, tested positive for EPO after Saturdays opening stage. He will likely be ejected from the Tour, and his team will be asked to leave voluntarily, as is now customary. The Tours organizing body has yet to make a formal announcement on the case.VeloNews sums up Replica Breitling Windrider Starliner Watch well what will soon be part of the media stir:Beltran, now 37, was at Armstrongs side during three of his successfulTour campaigns, in 2003, 2004 and 2005. In that last season, bothBeltran and Armstrong were named by L’Equipe as being among several riders whose samples from the 1999 Tour showed signs of EPO in a now-infamous retesting of six-year-old samples.Need a reason to keep watching? John Bradley made the case in our pages after Landiss superhuman Stage 17. Or turn to our profile of Team Slipstream, and pray, for the good of the sport, that they, at least, can keep it clean.--Matthew Fishbane
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