Tagi dispenses with race reports from the Tour de France

 The Tages-Anzeiger is discontinuing its coverage of the Tour de France. Due to the doping scandal surrounding the cycling race, the Zurich daily newspaper will no longer be publishing race reports on the individual stages, as the editorial team reported on Wednesday in response to an SDA inquiry. The Tagi will limit itself to the results tables and background reports on the subject of doping. Martin Born, the Tages-Anzeiger's Tour de France reporter, reacted to the sports information correspondent with incomprehension at the decision of the editors-in-chief, the SDA further reports. The Tages-Anzeiger is thus following in the footsteps of the German television stations ARD and ZDF, which have refrained from broadcasting direct coverage of the cycling race since last week. Last Saturday, the Valais daily newspaper Le Nouvelliste also discontinued its coverage of the world's most famous cycling race.
Various sponsors are also considering pulling out: according to Werben & Verkaufen, the sponsors of the T-Mobile, Gerolsteiner and Milram teams want to decide after the end of the Tour de France whether they want to remain among the sponsors. The Astana team is already completely out of the race.