Tour de France third place finisher Kohl admits to doping.

AFP and ESPN, among other various sites, have reported third place 2008 Tour de France finisher Bernard Kohl has admitted to doping with CERA. This is the second rider from team Gerolsteiner caught doping, the other being Stefan Schumacher. It looks like the German site has already removed Schumacher as one of their riders, though his picture still lingers. This is the fourth rider so far that has failed the test. Even before Kohl's drug results came out, there have been various debates circulating on whether or not road cycling should be banned from future Olympics. The IOC has called for a retest of the Beijing 2008 frozen samples to test for new generation drugs and if enough fail, this could hurt the image of cycling even more. I still think banning the sport is a little extreme considering how many other sports are just as tarnished, such as MMA with anabolic steroids. It's still a competitor's responsibility so they should be the ones directly punished. These 2-4 year bans are too soft as part of the punishment. The penalty should include a lifetime ban or something as strict to outweigh the risk of taking the substance. It's not like the sport is going to be short of clean, competitive riders to fill in the slots of those failing the tests.