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Virenque finished twice on the podium in the Tour de France (third in 1996 and second in 1997) and won several stages, among them Mont Ventoux in 2002. He is the 18th rider in the Tour to have won stages over 10 years apart; [ n 8 ] he wore the Maillot Jaune for two days in his entire career.
The Société du Tour de France and the Motorola team placed a memorial near where he crashed, situated at co-ordinates (42.940, 0 The memorial is a sundial arranged such that the sun's shadow highlights three dates — his birth and death and 2 August, the day he won his Olympic gold medal .
Lance Edward Armstrong (né Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) [4] is an American former professional road racing cyclist.He achieved international fame for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of his titles in 2012 after an investigation into doping allegations, called the Lance Armstrong doping case, found that Armstrong used ...
King rode the 2014 Tour de France, but withdrew on Stage 10 due to injuries he sustained in Stage 1. [24] [25] King signed with Cannondale–Garmin, a UCI ProTeam, for the 2015 season. [26] [27] He retired from road racing after the 2015 season. [28] [29] Beginning in early 2016, King quickly became a leader in the sport of gravel cycling.
Laurent Fignon of France tested positive for amphetamines at the Grand Prix de la Liberation in Eindhoven on 17 September 1989. [ 103 ] [ 104 ] Bert Oosterbosch of the Netherlands died on 18 August 1989, aged 32, from a heart attack and poor health.
That year he finished third in the Ronde van Nederland and had places of honour in races such as the Grand Prix de Fourmies and the Grand Prix d'Isbergues in 1986. However it was not until 1988 that he achieved great success. In the 1988 Tour de France he challenged his former teammate, Pedro Delgado.
Laurent Jalabert (born 30 November 1968) is a French former professional road racing cyclist, from 1989 to 2002.. Affectionately known as "Jaja" (slang for a glass of wine; when he continued drinking wine as a professional, the nickname stuck because of the similarity to his name), he won many one-day and stage races and was ranked number 1 in the world in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999.
1st Tour d'Europe 1959 1st Mont Faron, 1st GP Alger (with Gérard Saint and Raphaël Géminiani) 2nd Grand Prix des Nations 3rd Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 4th Overall Tour de France 1st Stages 6 & 21 (ITT) 6th Overall Vuelta a España 1st Stages 1a , 13 (TTT), 14 (ITT) & 16 1960 1st GP Alger (with Rudi Altig) Tour de France: