LAuto s readership had risen from 25,000 per day to over 130,000 during the Tour. And just as doping scandals have dogged the sport, bringing down heroic Lance Armstrong in the process, since at least the 1960s, various forms cheating were endemic to the Tour from the start, surrounded, as James Stout writes, by an omerta. Historian Peter Cossins describes in The First Tour de France how first winner Maurice Garin supposedly formed a team, against the rules, and turned them into his domestiques
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Cultural factors significantly impact perceptions of addiction and mental health, influencing attitudes, beliefs, and help-seeking behaviors within different communities