After last year’s fiasco, when Tour winner Floyd Landis was tested positive for abnormal levels of testosterone, everyone thought the worst was over. However, the Tour de France 2007 will be remembered as the “Tour du Dopage” for its numerous doping scandals.

First on the list was race-favourite Alexander Vinokourov who impressed everyone with his massive performance in the time-trial (Stage 13 - Albi - Sat 21st) & then won 2 days later (Stage 15 - Foix - Loudenvielle). He was then tested positive for blood transfusion. Team Astana withdrew from the race along with Andreas Klöden (5th) & Andrey Kashechkin (7th).

On the 25th July, Cofidis team member Cristian Moreni was tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone & the Cofidis team had to withdraw.
On the same day, overall leader, yellow jersey & Stage 16 winner, Michael Rasmussen was fired from Team Rabobank for having lied on his whereabouts in the training season.

In short, the Tour de France 2007 was marred by the doping scandals & the yellow jersey was passed onto 24-year-old Alberto Contador of Discovery Channel, who himself was suspected in the Affaire Puerto 2 years ago but then declared innocent.
Contador managed to cling to his yellow jersey despite a thrilling finish in the last time-trial in which team-mate Levi Leipheimer’s & Cadel Evans’s massive performances reduced the time gap to a few seconds.