Cycling's doping-battered image was dealt a double blow in Germany on Thursday when organizers canceled the country's main multistage race and the two main national public broadcasters decided to drop live coverage of the Tour de France.
The decisions follow a string of new Tour doping that further discredited the sport and threaten to turn cycling into a fringe sport in one of Europe's biggest markets.
Organizers of the 2009 Tour of Germany, a nine-day event usually held in August, said they were dropping the race due to a lack of sponsors.
"We regret having to make this decision," said Kai Rapp, the general manager of the …
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