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Phillip Hersh, Chicago Tribune

For a decade, I have seen professional cycling the way most people do a bad highway accident: you know something awful may have happened, but you can’t stop looking.

Cycling’s ''grand tours’’ – especially the Tour de France – offer stunning scenery, and the riders are so technically skilled and fearless I am lured to watch, even if I do it with the same jaundiced eye I focus on other sports (baseball, football, track) because of the doping that has badly undermined the credibility of performances.

Neither the grand jury investigation into the possibility 7-time TdF winner Lance Armstrong doped nor Wednesday’s news that Alberto Contador, TdF winner the past two years, has tested positive will change my view of the sport.

Photo: Lance Armstrong rides past fans during the 20th stage of the Tour de France. Credit: Bernard Papon / Associated Press.

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