Mick Hartley

I don’t know if anyone else is following Le Tour, but it just gets crazier….

Race leader Michael Rasmussen has been kicked out of the Tour de France and sacked by his Rabobank team.

The 33-year-old Dane has been at the centre of controversy during the Tour since it was revealed he missed out-of-competition drugs tests.

But Rabobank have learnt he lied to them about his whereabouts in June.

Rasmussen looked odds-on to win the Tour on Sunday after taking Wednesday’s stage, which increased his lead over second-placed rider Alberto Contador.

This after the Cofidis withdrawal, and the Vinokourov affair. How much more excitement can we take? At this rate there’ll be maybe four riders left to cycle up and down the Champs Elysee.

And it all started so well…