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Banned for life and stripped of all Tour de France titles in 2012. [42] Admitted to doping at the Tour de France in an interview with Oprah Winfrey held on 17 January 2013. 2 Alex Zülle (SUI) Banesto +7' 37" Admitted to taking EPO during the Festina trial. 3 Fernando Escartín (ESP) Kelme +10' 26" Named as a client of Francesco Conconi. [108]
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.
Explicitly about his EPO abuse in the Tour de France, he explained he abused it both during the Tour and in the 2-3 week preparation phase ahead, in 1997 and 1998. For the years in 1996 and 1999–2002 his EPO abuse did not happen during the race, but was limited to the 2-3 week preparation phase ahead of the Tour.
Philippe Gaumont of France admitted during police interrogation to an ongoing pattern of EPO use that continued into the 2003 Tour de France [268] This was the end of a career in which in 1996 he tested positive for nandrolone in two races. In 1998 he tested positive twice for the nandrolone drug, but the case was dismissed.
June 17, 1999: The organisers of the Tour de France announce the teams of the 1999 Tour de France where they take the unprecedented step of banning teams, team officials and individual riders. In the aftermath of the Festina affair, Virenque was banned together with his former teammate Hervé.
(Reuters) -Novo Nordisk plans to invest more than 16 billion Danish crowns ($2.34 billion) to boost production of its weight-loss drugs at a site in Chartres, France, scrambling to keep up with ...
Floyd Landis on the 2006 Tour de France. Since the introduction of doping tests in 1964, many cyclists were caught in the Tour de France. In recent years, 1996 Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis and points classification winner Erik Zabel, along with most of their Team Telekom team-mates, confessed to using erythropoietin (EPO).
Around late September, staff manning the phones at 39 19, France's main anonymous hotline for women who are victims of violence, began noticing a new type of case. The trial, in which Dominique ...