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Although the Tour De France is a wonderful event, from the very beginning the cyclists have dosed themselves with narcotics.

In the early days they drank lashings of alcohol, not in truth performance-enhancing, though it does dull the senses. So does cocaine, the drug of choice in the 1920s and '30s, succeeded by amphetamines in the '50s and '60s. Cocaine gives a lift, amphetamines hold fatigue at bay; both are dangerous.

In 1967 cycling suffered a moral shock when Tom Simpson - the first Englishman to have worn the yellow jersey - collapsed and died on the stage up Mont Ventoux while chock-full of amphetamines.