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Blood doping at 2007 Tour de France, one-year ban. 4 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Team CSC +6' 17" Received a two-year ban for blood doping at the 2004 Olympics and the 2004 Vuelta a España. Implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case in 2006. Given an eight-year ban for failing a tests for DHEA in 2009.
The affair highlighted systematic doping and suspicion of a widespread network of doping in many teams of the Tour de France, and was characterised by the constant negative publicity of the cases, police searches of hotels, a spate of confessions by retired and current riders to doping, the detainment and arrest of many team personnel, protests ...
Doping at the 1999 Tour de France; Doping at the 2007 Tour de France; A. The Armstrong Lie; F. Festina affair; Floyd Landis doping case; H.
George Hincapie, who tested negative twice, confessed nevertheless in his affidavit to the USADA that he used EPO and other doping substances throughout 1996–2006 (incl. blood doping throughout 2001–2005), and made this specific statement about his doping use in the 1998 Tour de France: "During the Tour that year I recall using testosterone ...
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.
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).
At the time of the 1999 Tour de France there was no official test for EPO. In August 2005, 60 remaining antidoping samples from the 1998 Tour and 84 remaining antidoping samples given by riders during the 1999 Tour, were tested retrospectively for recombinant EPO by using three recently developed detection methods.
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.