Millar detained by police in drugs investigation

DAVID MILLAR’S troubled season took a turn for the worse just days before the start of the Tour de France when it emerged that the British cycling world champion had been detained by the French police as part of a drugs investigation.

The 27-year-old, who rides for the French outfit Cofidis, was placed in police custody while he was dining at a restaurant in Biarritz, where he is based, on Tuesday night.

A local judge authorised the police to detain him for 48 hours as a witness in the investigation into claims that Millar and other Cofidis riders had taken performance-enhancing drugs.