International survey on cycling

French daily sports newspaper L'Equipe has asked French research institute Ipsos to conduct as survey on the credibility of cycling, which it has partly published in Wednesday's edition. The survey was carried out in four European countries (France, Germany, Italy and Spain) to compare the public's attitude towards a sport whose image has certainly been influenced by the doping scandals of recent years.

The results of the survey show that a great majority (79 percent) of the general public associated doping with the sport of cycling. In France, even 97 percent of the persons surveyed believe that cycling is the sport which is the most infiltrated by doping, whereas in Germany, 'only' 62 percent said so.

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