ITALY’S Daniele Bennati won stage 17 of the Tour de France yesterday in a race from Pau to Castelsarrasin overshadowed by drug scandals.

Tour de France rider Raimondus Rumsas has been suspended after his wife was picked up at a border post in a car containing ‘‘doping substances’’.

Frenchman Laurent Jalabert clinched stage four of the Tour de France after winning a two-man sprint duel to the line in Verdun.