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pre tour story comes true, I believe astana were mentioned post the tt victory that vino had been given a long term contract off the back of it
Mysterious 'men in black' cast a long, dark shadow
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/othersport.cfm?id=1064562007
HERE come the men in black, and the organisers of Tour de France wish they wouldn't - they would also like to know who they are. When cycling's governing body, the UCI, recently revealed that they were monitoring a group of "seven or eight" cyclists who had been training in secret locations, in plain black clothing, there was feverish speculation as to who they might be.
The UCI referred to them, in deliberately sinister terms, only as the "men in black", adding that their suspicions centred on their possible use of illegal doping products. But most observers jumped to the same conclusion: the men in black were members of Astana, the team of this year's Tour favourite, Alexandre Vinokourov