From Lemond to Hushovd, it's goodbye to Credit Agricole

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2008

SAINT-ARNOULT-EN-YVELINES, France (AFP) — Credit Agricole team manager Roger Legeay has played down the negative effect of cycling's numerous doping scandals as he prepares his riders for their last race as a team.

At Paris-Tours this Sunday, the penultimate one-day classic of the season, Legeay will wave goodbye to more than 20 years of cycling history while lamenting his failure to attract a replacement sponsor.

French banking group Credit Agricole announced last year this would be their last season in the sport.

But Legeay refuses to believe the numerous drugs scandals to have tarnished the sport have proved counter-productive.

"It's never come down to that at all," Legeay said here Saturday.

"As far as I'm concerned, potential sponsors...

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