Lance Armstrong will be "particularly monitored" in anti-doping checks at this year's Tour de France, according to France's sports minister Roselyne Bachelot.
Bachelot singled out the seven-time Tour winner, who maintains he has never taken a banned substance, in a very pointed public warning.
"The [doping] controls will be multiplied and I tell Lance Armstrong that he will be particularly, particularly, particularly monitored," Bachelot said.
The International Cycling Union is planning to stage over 500 doping checks at this year's Tour, in an effort to reduce the negative press attracted by drug scandals.
"There needs to be a really very, very active fight against doping," Bachelot said. "The organisers know how much a positive doping test could have harmful effects."
The 2009 Tour de France begins on Saturday in Monaco, ending in Paris on 26 July.
