PARIS - With a doping case still hanging over 2010 champion Alberto Contador, this year's Tour de France is being lauded by anti-doping experts as perhaps one of the cleanest in recent years.
The Tour has had just one positive test — Russian rider Alexander Kolobnev quit the race after testing positive for a banned masking agent.
There was only one positive last year as well, and that was Contador's.
The three-week race ended Sunday with Australia's Cadel Evans winning the title for the first time. All the test results aren't in yet, and it would be premature to make final conclusions.
"Let's wait and see. The remaining analysis of the samples collected over the last few days will be performed next week," Bruno Genevois, president of French anti-doping agency ALFD told The Associated Press on Sunday. "We will asses everything together with the UCI later."
But officials sensed a change this year.
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