Column: Important not to let Armstrong ruin Tour again (The Associated Press)

In his biography, Chris Froome recounts how his two elder brothers used to amuse themselves by locking him in a dog kennel with an angry, scratching turkey. ”Only when I was in absolute floods of tears would they open the cage up and let me out,” the Tour de France race leader recounts. Froome has needed that armor against cynics and skeptics pecking at his probity and performances on the bike as the 2013 winner cruises toward a second win at the world’s toughest cycle race.