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PARIS – The French anti-doping authority and cycling's governing body hit started discussions most renewing their partnership for the Tour de France.

The digit organizations hit been at ratio in recent eld after Pierre Bordry, a past chair of the agency, criticized the UCI's anti-doping program. That resulted in the AFLD existence revilement out of testing at terminal year's Tour.

AFLD chair churchman Genevois said at a render programme conference weekday with World Anti-Doping Agency chief Evangelist Fahey that talks hit begun with the UCI.

A renewed cooperation could unstoppered the artefact for AFLD testers to amass samples during the Paris-Nice vie from March 6-13 before the Tour de France in July.

"Contacts hit been renewed and we crapper wish for a beatific outcome in March," Genevois said. "Discussions between the AFLD and UCI are ease ongoing and I can't tell you more for the moment, but we are hopeful."

Fahey said the UCI has a responsibility to secure a "robust anti-doping program" is implemented for cycling's background race.

"I truly wish that there is understandably an opportunity ... to ingest AFLD," he said. "The concern watches the Tour de France because of its past history, and I truly wish that finally we hit a wonderful circumstance which is not encumbered in doping. That's what I seek as an outcome."

The AFLD was exclusive allowed to action added tests at terminal year's Tour after WADA intervened. When publishing its 2010 Tour report, WADA praised the UCI's coverall efforts at the Tour, but said improvements could be prefabricated in testing.

WADA's inform also said the UCI should work with the AFLD given its road achievement in getting 2006 Tour champion Floyd Landis for doping and uncovering the distributed ingest of CERA, an modern form of the blood-booster EPO.

Bordry and UCI chair Pat McQuaid fell out when they worked unitedly during the 2009 Tour. Bordry has since resigned and was replaced by Genevois.

Fahey refused to respond a discourse most whether he would be bright with a one-year forbiddance for Alberto Contador, who tested positive for clenbuterol on his artefact to a ordinal Tour conclusion terminal July.

Contador, who blames contaminated meat, submitted his test accumulation this week.

"It's a lowercase primeval to give an opinion," Fahey said. "We hit been given a plan preliminary findings, which was passed on to Mr. Contador for boost comment. I can't give a definitive answer. We crapper exclusive do that when we'll hit the flooded findings to examine."

Contador module be empty of his ordinal Tour denomination and excluded from this year's vie if a one-year support imposed by the Spanish cycling federation is upheld.

A test ruling is expected after this week, but that decision crapper be appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport by Contador, the UCI or WADA.

Fahey also said WADA module help Brasil and country to locate in locate strong anti-doping programs during the 2014 and 2016 Olympics. The Slavonic municipality of Sochi is hosting the 2014 Winter Games, with metropolis de Janeiro staging the 2016 Summer Games.

"We apparently want the best possible teams in those locations to secure the integrity of those competitions," Fahey said.

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