Dopers getting caught is cause for celebration, not grief. And yes, some of the names mentioned are obvious dopers.

or just rehash press releases every couple of months about how they are starting the tests soon. Really. Because I’d swear that I’ve read this story at least three times this year and still nothing has happened.

Here’s what cyclismag.com has to say (my translation):

Forty names were targeted before the 2008 Tour

The French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) has confirmed the report in the Austrian newspaper “Der Kurier” that it had, in July, shown Bernhard Kohl a blacklist from the preceding year. Kohl states that he saw 40 names suspected of doping with CERA and therefore targeted for drug controls in the 2008 Tour de France. In its Saturday edition, Der Kurier listed some of the best-known suspects. The AFLD noted that fifteen of those riders are still under investigation. Results from their samples from the 2008 Tour should be known “in one or two weeks”, according to the president of the AFLD.
Bernhard Kohl, who was called in to help the AFLD this summer, explains: “When I saw that list, I was beside myself. Since the beginning of this, I haven’t stopped asking myself whether the few who have admitted [doping] haven’t just been sacrificial lambs.”

Note: It seems that 25 names on the targeted list are no longer under investigation, but no one has said which riders are no longer suspected (or why). So some of the names cited from the list could be just the prominent ones that Kohl remembered from the original 40, rather than the remaining 15 that are currently under investigation.