Further to the news of the passing of de Ceaurriz, Le Monde had this nice article about his career.
http://contre-pied.blog.lemonde.fr/2010/01...or=RSS-32280322I thought this was interesting:
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Il avait le mérite de connaître les limites de son art et de penser que les enquêtes policières et douanières – qui avaient permis de découvrir la THG ou de confondre les protagonistes de l’affaire Festina – étaient en définitive plus efficaces que les contrôles chimiques.
"He had the merit to acknowledge the limits of his art, recognising that the police and border investigations that led to the discovery of THG and the actors in the Festina affair were in the end more efficient than the anti-doping controls."