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Correspondence
Nature 449, 281 (20 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449281a; Published online 19 September 2007
Doping destroys the story at the heart of cycling
Steven Riley1
- Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China
Suggesting that the Tour de France should lead the way for other sports by permitting drug enhancement, as your recent Editorial 'A sporting chance' (Nature 448, 512; 2007) does, misses an important point. You fail to recognize the reason why people drive 10 hours to watch the regional final of college basketball, wake up in the middle of the night to watch the inevitable penalty shoot-out at the end of an England World Cup football match or even hop on the fast train to see the yellow jersey lead the Tour de France on to the Champs-Élysées.
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