The Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway will host the opening stage of the 2013 Tour of Britain cycle race.

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As for Mrs Buffet, she has proved an incisive minister of sport in the Socialist-led coalition government of Lionel Jospin, notably by refusing to turn a blind eye to rampant drug-taking in the annual Tour de France cycle race.

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The cycle road race on the opening weekend of the Olympics took riders from the Mall, through west London, out to Surrey and back again, and included a 9.6-mile (15.5km) circuit around Box Hill.

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