Swiss newspaper " Tages-Anzeiger " reduced its coverage of the race in protest to minimal reporting of results and full reporting of any doping stories.
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Still, he said, " my first victory in the Tour de France was the most difficult because of all the doping stories and the police ."
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Countering accusations in a French newspaper that he has used an illegal drug, Armstrong acknowledged Wednesday that he had treated a rash with the cream, but that " it has absolutely nothing to do with performance " and that " this is not a doping story ."
