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Favourites for the race included 2008 winner Carlos Sastre, 2007 winner Alberto Contador, 2009 Giro d'Italia winner Denis Menchov and two time runner-up Cadel Evans. [11] Lance Armstrong came out of retirement and competed in the race on the same team as Contador. Menchov and Evans performed far below the levels expected of them, finishing 51st ...
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 ...
Andy Schleck leading the yellow jersey winner Alberto Contador, Lance Armstrong and his brother Fränk Schleck, up Mont Ventoux on stage 20. The two chasers seen behind the four-man group are Vincenzo Nibali and Roman Kreuziger. The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours.
The story of Lance Armstrong is widely known – ... the arduous Tour de France, a record seven times. ... 2009 comebacks: Lance Armstrong. Tom Barlow.
The 1999 Tour saw the first victory of Lance Armstrong, [21] which was followed by six more, for a total of seven consecutive victories. [22] He was later stripped of his titles in October 2012, when it emerged he had used performance-enhancing drugs throughout much of his career, including the Tour de France victories. [9]
His fall from grace was swift, with his then-record seven Tour de France victories stripped, a lifetime ban from competitive cycling handed down by the UCI, a remittance of his Olympic medal, a $5 ...
4 July 2009 — Monaco, 15.5 km . The 2009 Tour began, as have many in the past, with an individual time trial, but instead of a very brief prologue, this 15 kilometer ride saw the race's overall favorites show themselves on day one. [1] The favourite for the stage, Fabian Cancellara, won with Alberto Contador coming in second.
Most notably, seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong returned after a three-and-half year break, starting his season as a Astana-rider in the Tour Down Under. The teams Gerolsteiner and Saunier Duval–Scott, both who were connected to some major doping cases in 2008, saw their title sponsors drop out.