frtour1-4, Exercise 3: Tom Simpson's death and drugs in the sport

Model answer (check the details):

What changed:
- The death made the use of stimulants a public matter in a way earlier warnings had not.
- Doping controls were introduced in the Tour and in other races in the following year, 1968 (check), and national laws against doping followed in several countries, including France (check).
- Medical supervision and rules about substances developed over the following decades.

What did not change:
- Testing was weak and the substances available kept changing, so drug use continued, with scandals in later decades (Chapter 6).
- Many riders and teams still treated drugs as a normal part of the profession, and some officials tolerated them.
- The culture of suffering, which treated pain as the proof of a champion, remained.

Evidence: the inquest and press reports of 1967, regulations of the period, later scandals and the retrospective accounts of riders.

Care: this is a sensitive subject and the facts of Simpson's final day should be taken from the inquest and reliable biographies, not from retellings.