More on the Tour de Farce

The Scotsman has a clear breakdown of what has happened so far in this giant doping scandal.

"With seven-time winner Lance Armstrong now retired, it means that today's Grand Départ - which suddenly seems a misnomer - will happen without the first five finishers in last year's Tour. The sixth-placed American Levi Leipheimer thus finds himself among the favourites - a scenario that no-one, especially not Leipheimer, could have imagined 24 hours earlier."