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Jens Voigt is the conscience of cycling

Updated: July 21, 2009, 5:32 PM ET
By Bonnie D. Ford | ESPN.com

BOURG-SAINT-MAURICE, France -- Let's pause and, for just a moment, put peloton politics and doping speculation and Contador versus Armstrong aside to celebrate the career of the most conscientious man in the business, Jens Voigt.

It was horrifying to see Voigt crash out of this Tour de France on Tuesday, not only because he is smart and honest and loyal and funny and tireless, but also because it happened in a place where he is usually in his element, flying down a mountainside on a mission.

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