Another Positive Drug Test at Tour de France Ruins End of Race Party

The fourth positive test of this year's Tour de France came on the final day, as Dmitriy Fofonov of the French Credit Agicole team, was found positive for heptamino, a stimulant. Fofonov is Kazahkstani, and follows in the footsteps of fellow countrymen Alexander Vinokourov and Andre Kashekin. Fofonov's positive shows that all teams are suspect to having doped riders within their ranks, and the Credit Agricole team, from France, is generally viewed as a clean one. As an example of CA's good reputation, in a recent poll conducted on this site for which team would have the next positive result, Credit Agricole was chosen by 1 of 75 survey participants.

The question now is who's next? Surely there will be at least a couple of more revelations in the coming days. And as we have learned in the past, no one is free from suspicion. Hopefully none of the jerseys will be found guilty, which would be detrimental to the image of cycling and the Tour de France. Luckily, both the yellow and white jerseys are on CSC-Saxo, so they haev internal doping programs to ensure they are not cheating. Gerolsteiner and Rabobank however, have no such program. Time will tell.