If at first you don’t succeed, test, test again!

Posted by brianS on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pm

I love the French. Cheese, wine, foie gras, truffle-sniffing pigs, chicks with hairy armpits. But you would think that a nation that made an art form out of surrendering would eventually give up on trying to catch Lance Armstrong in a drug test.

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