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The organizers have promised that every effort will be made to ensure that this year’s Tour de France will be a drug free event. Pat McQuaid spoke out regarding the plans being made for this year’s tour.

The event will take place this year from July 4th to the 26th. The reputation of the race has been badly damaged over the years due to various drug scandals. Every contestant this year will face a drug test before the race with up to 400 tests set to be carried out during the tour. Random tests will also be administered after each stage.

McQuaid pledged to stay one up ahead of cheats at all times. The tour will begin in Monaco and end in Paris taking in such places as Marseille, Montpellier and Tarbes.

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The US President Barack Obama arrived in Paris yesterday with his family in what is been seen as the most widely anticipated visit by a US president since Kennedy in 1961.
The president plans to attend the sixty fifth anniversary of the D-Day landings during his visit to France.

Obama has brought his two daughters along for the trip which is their first time away on an official government trip since he became president. The first lady will stay with the girls in Paris at the US Embassy until Monday. The embassy is located close to the home of French PM Nicolas Sarkozy at Elysée Palace.

The first lady and her two daughters took a tour of the Eiffel Tower last night which gave the people of Paris a look up close at the first family. The family is also expected to pay a visit to other popular Parisian sights such as the Louvre and the Notre Dame Cathedral.

Sarkozy and Obama will have lunch in Caen before the D-Day ceremony. Other notable people attending include British PM Gordon Brown and Prince Charles.