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The acceptance of drug-taking in the Tour de France was so complete by 1930, when the race changed to national teams that were to be paid for by the organisers, that the rule book distributed to riders by the organiser, Henri Desgrange, reminded them that drugs were not among items with which they would be provided. [16]
Floyd Landis on the Tour de France on July 23, 2006 The Floyd Landis doping case was a doping scandal that featured Floyd Landis , the initial winner of the 2006 Tour de France . After a meltdown in Stage 16 , where he had lost ten minutes, Landis came back in Stage 17 , riding solo and passing his whole team.
[224] [225] In 2005 he was arrested and banned from the Tour de France after police found 10 doses of erythropoietin (EPO) in his wife's car. [226] Marcin Gębka of Poland was excluded from the 2001 Peace Race after failing a hematocrit test prior to the event. He was one of three riders for the Polish CCC Mat team who received a two-week ban ...
As the Tour de France began in Dublin, it was announced that the Festina riders Richard Virenque, Alex Zülle and Laurent Dufaux would face questioning when they returned to France. On July 15, Roussel and Festina team doctor Eric Rijckaert were arrested in Cholet , and the team's hotel was searched by eight gendarmes . [ 1 ]
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During the 1999 tour he wrote some articles about cycling, the tour, and about doping, finding the speeds to be "suspicious". [18] The peloton began to turn against him, refusing to speak to him, and otherwise shunning him. [19] Stage 10 occurred on July 14 and was from Sestrieres to Alpe d'Huez. Bassons would later tell the story of this stage ...
Jeroen Blijlevens admitted he started to use EPO in Tour de France 1997, and continued to use the drug in Tour de France 1998. [21] Laurent Jalabert's lawyer released this statement on behalf of the rider: "... he followed the prescriptions of the medical staff at his successive teams. Although no element of law has been officially notified to ...
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