Berlin - German daily newspaper Berliner Zeitung announced to its readers on Saturday it will abstain from covering the 2007 edition of the Tour de France.
Instead the newspaper's owners, who have decided against printing anything to do with cycling's most prestigeous race, will concentrate on the fundamental issues of the sport including doping and organised crime.
"This year, there will be no coverage, no stage reports, no photographs, no stage profiles with their difficulties and no Tour de France traditions which has turned its back on the real issues," explained the Berlin newspaper.
"This year we are going to concentrate on the fundamental problems of the sport: the Tour, doping and organised crime, these are the real issues at stake with this sport."
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Berliner Zeitung concluded its leading article titled A Question Of Principles by writing: "Even if there have been some recently positive developments concerning the struggle against doping, they still lie, still cheat, hide the truth, cover it up, and bend it."
The Tour de France begins on Saturday, with hundreds of thousands of spectators expected to line the streets of London for the opening 7,9km individual time trial.
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