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The Festina affair was a series of doping scandals within the sport of professional cycling that occurred during and after the 1998 Tour de France. The affair began when a large haul of doping products was found in a support car belonging to the Festina cycling team just before the start of the race. A resulting investigation revealed ...
Blanche Monnier (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃ mɔnje]; 1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers [a] (roughly, "The Confined Woman of Poitiers"), [1] was a woman from Poitiers, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 25 years.
Podium girls kissing stage and general classification winner Daryl Impey at the 2014 Tour of Alberta. Podium girls, formally known as "tour hostesses" (French: hôtesses du Tour), are women who are best known for presenting prizes and kisses to the winners of the Tour de France and other major cycle races, including the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.
This photograph shows a photograph of Lina, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared in September 2023, displayed in the village of Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France on July 30, 2024.
car Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan, France Badiane died in a car crash. [27] Mirsada Bajraktarević: 1951 1976 25 years Bosnian singer car Ford Granada: Kolari, Smederevo, Yugoslavia: The car was reportedly travelling 130 km/h (80 mph), when it collided with a FAP truck. Her sister, Silvana Armenulić, died in the same crash. Tarnia Baker: 1967 2017 50 ...
One 17-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other victims were transported to a local hospital where another 17-year-old died on Dec. 12 and a third teenage girl remains in stable condition.
OKLAHOMA CITY — The search for an 8-year-old Oklahoma girl entered its third day on Thursday after her family's vehicle got caught in a drainage ditch in Texas and was swept away by floodwaters ...
Virenque was a favourite in the 1998 Tour de France but after team soigneur Willy Voet was caught by France-Belgium border officials with large quantities of doping products in his Festina team car, all members of the 1998 Tour team including the World Champion Laurent Brochard and Christophe Moreau were arrested and seven admitted to taking EPO [4] and were ejected from the race. [5]