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French customs search Tour team buses
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-24 08:45
LOUDENVIELLE-LE-LOURON, France, July 23 - Buses belonging to four teams
on the Tour de France have been searched by French customs, an Astana
team spokeswoman said on Monday.
Officials searched the buses of the Astana, Discovery Channel, CSC and
Rabobank teams, she said.
"I am currently in the bus," Corinne Druey told Reuters over the
telephone. "They have searched the whole bus, they have searched the
riders' personal effects."
Druey said the search took place on a parking lot on the A64 motorway
just outside the southwestern town of St Gaudens.
"They have found some prescription medicines but they did not take
anything from the bus," she added. "The buses from the French teams have
not been stopped, the customs have let them go.
"Now we are late. We have not reached the finish line yet."
CSC team manager Alain Gallopin said such searches were not unusual.
"I know about that," he told Reuters. "It has happened to us many, many
times."
St Gaudens is some 30 km from the Spanish border.
Monday's 15th stage of the Tour was taking the riders, with Rabobank's
Michael Rasmussen in the leader's yellow jersey, over 196 kms from Foix
to Loudenvielle.
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