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The Tour de France and 'Team Clean'

The Tour de France has been dubbed the Tour de Farce for making a joke of the sport of cycling. Repeated drug scandals have left fans thinking that every cyclist is a drug user unless proven otherwise.

But that could change this year with the addition of a squad that’s come clean.   Team Garmin-Chipotle -- based in Spain and the U.S. – voluntarily tests its cyclists about once a week using an independent laboratory.  The team hopes its rigid testing system will help win back disillusioned fans and sponsors.  Nancy Greenleese reports.

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