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This year's Tour de France, which began on Saturday, is a prodigious test. Not just for the riders who climb, sprint and sweat their way along the three-week, 2,270-mile journey across the Alps and countryside. It's also a prodigious test for cycling's future. After seven straight victories, Lance Armstrong is no longer competing. Yet his legacy of success--coupled with fresh allegations of his wrongdoing--is casting a shadow over the start of this year's already chaotic race...
Armstrong has repeatedly denied using performance-enhancing drugs. And he has never failed a drug test. He called Andreu's allegationwhich her husband, former Armstrong teammate Frankie Andreu, backed in a separate deposition"absurd and untrue." (Betsy Andreu told TIME she stands by "every single, solitary word" of her testimony.) Armstrong ultimately won the arbitration, receiving another $2.5 million on top of the $5 million SCA owed him. Armstrong's oncologist, Dr. Craig Nichols, said in an affidavit, "I would have recorded such a confession as a matter of form, as indeed would have my colleagues. None was recorded...
North Korea's provocative July 4 missile test has left Japan scrambling for a response. As evidence first became public two weeks ago that a North Korean test might be imminent, Tokyo had been among the first and loudest voices in an international chorus demanding that Pyongyang refrain from going ahead. Japan responded immediately by suspending the ferry transport and charter flights between the countries, and blocking North Korean officials from traveling to Japan. It also moved quickly to co-sponsor, with the U.S., a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding that North Korea immediately cease development, testing and deployment...
...When intelligence reports first surfaced in late June that North Korea had begun fueling booster rockets capable of launching various types of its missiles, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso warned that a test would prompt a "very vehement" reaction from Japan. He said his government would consider immediate economic sanctions, and would recommend that the U.N. Security Council take action. Since then, various Japanese leaders, including Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, have reiterated that threat...
...Japanese-North Korean relations are already at their lowest point in decades, having risen to a new level of tension after North Korea's last missile test, in 1998, when part of Taepodong-1 missile fell in Japanese waters...