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BERLIN, Jul 5 (CP) - German television channels ARD and ZDF may have found an effective way to reduce doping in the peloton, as both consider boycotting the Tour de France if a new scandal is revealed in the coming weeks.

ARD director Thomas Baumann told the Hamburger Abendblatt about the idea: "Once a new scandal appears, we will talk to our colleagues at the ZDF and I believe that there's a good chance we will stop our live tranmissions.

"We can't be certain that we will be showing the Tour de France until the end," Baumann said.

ZDF director Nikolaus Brender meanwhile, said to agree with the increase of unannounced doping tests.

© Jonathan Roorda