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Chris Marshall-Bell

'All riders were included in the operation' – Entire Tour de France peloton provided blood samples to anti-doping organisation on rest day

Anti-doping.

All 166 riders left in the Tour de France underwent an anti-doping test on Monday evening, Cycling Weekly can reveal.

A day after Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) were woken up in the early hours of Sunday morning by doping control officers (DCO), every other bike rider in the race was visited by a DCO on behalf of the International Testing Agency (ITA) on Monday and made to provide a blood sample. They were also made to do so two days before the race started in Barcelona.

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