The fact is that cycling in France is in the process of going through one of its toughest periods, ... They haven't won for twenty years now so naturally it's harder for them to accept.

The recent smear campaign out of France has awoken my competitive side.

The Tour de France is not the only bike race in the world, but it is the biggest, so the possibility could still exist to do a Tour of Italy, a Tour of Spain.

[But the strongest reason he gave for discounting the results of the B-sample tests from France was heartfelt and honest, and totally typical of the iconic cancer survivor.] A guy who comes back from arguably, you know, a death sentence, ... Why would I then enter into a sport and dope myself up and risk my life again? That's crazy. I would never do that. No. No way.

In France in the 17th century, they invented the process of taking almonds and rocking them in a bowl, coating them with corn syrup and sugar. That formed a hard candy shell for what is now called Jordan almonds.

Andre's been doing this for 20 years at the highest level, and you just can't argue with that,