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Serious economists (much more serious than me, certainly) have analysed the economy of the Tour de France through the Armstrong years, his retirement, and subsequent return and have found a negligible 'Armstrong Effect'. Possibly the Australian public is more gullible, or less cynical, than the French, so there may be strong negative and positive effects balancing out in France but an absence of negativity in Aus.