ABSTRACT
The Safari Simbaz cycling team and several hundred other riders rode through Nairobi as the 2013 Tour de France came to a close with Chris Froome leading. The Simbaz and the parade of riders was led by David Kinjah, the team’s coach and a former mentor of Froome when Froome started cycling with the group as a 12-year-old on the roads in the village of Mai-I-Hii in the Kikuyu township north and west of Nairobi. The French Senate released a 918-page report on July 24 discussing drug use in sport, with commonly noted items on performance enhancing drugs detected from the 1998 Tour. Responses that followed quickly came from Lance Armstrong who said he was not surprised by the findings of the commission, the Italian Cycling Federation who criticized the report, and the International Cycling Union (UCI) which also criticized the report. Stuart O’Grady was banished from the Australian Olympic Committee for his acknowledgement of use of drugs in 1998 (having just been celebrated for most Tour entries). In the space of a few days, this composite of news related to international cycling foregrounds key ingredients of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is organized; and hypocrisy is durable. 1
