Again, people...it's not the FRENCH doing it..good lord!
And it's not just Lance that has all the drug tests...it's all the cyclists. For a long time, cycling was ripe with doping...it just was. I had a female friend when I lived in France who cycled for fun- not competitively, and she dated a lot of cyclists who were competitive and some(not all) of her ex-men said that doping was the norm...and stated it definitely was in races like the tour when so much was demanded of your body. I'm not saying that doping is good, it's not, but that was what it was then. I'm sure people still do now, it's just a newer undetectable substance. In 1998 most of the teams were thrown out for doping...so people, it's not just Lance they are testing.
As far as certain journalists and witch hunters, yes, they are after him...but the guy who wrote the book that helped bring about all of this controversy to begin with is an Irishman. So why not say, damn the Irish too?