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Infographic: Tour de France: Too Fast To Be Clean?

The average speed of the Tour de France winner has continued to increase over the years, with Jonas Vingegaard setting a record speed of 42.03 km/h in the 2021 race. This surpassed the previous record set by Lance Armstrong in 2005 by 0.38 km/h. Vingegaard attributed the fast pace of the race to the prevalence of attacking and acknowledged that it may raise suspicions given the sport's history of doping scandals.

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