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Prologue (Dublin - Dublin, 5.6 km)

Stage 1 (Dublin - Dublin, 180.5 km)

Stage 2 (Enniscorthy - Cork, 205.5 km)

Stage 3 (Roscoff - Lorient, 169 km)

Stage 4 (Plouay - Cholet, 252 km)

Stage 5 (Cholet - Chateauroux, 228.5 km)

Stage 6 (La Châtre - Brive la Gaillarde, 204.5 km)

Stage 7 (Meyrignac - Corrèze, 58 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 8 (Brive la Gaillarde - Montauban, 190.5 km)

Stage 9 (Montauban - Pau, 210 km)

Stage 10 (Pau - Bagnères-de-Luchon, 196.5 km)

Stage 11 (Bagnères-de-Luchon - Plateau de Beille, 170 km)

Stage 12 (Tarascon sur Ariège - Le Cap d'Agde, 222 km)

Stage 13 (Frontignan la Peyrade - Carpentras, 196 km)

Stage 14 (Valréas - Grenoble, 186.5 km)

Stage 15 (Grenoble - Les Deux Alpes, 189 km)

Stage 16 (Vizille - Albertville, 204 km)

Stage 17 (Albertville - Aix-les-Bains, 149 km)

Stage 18 (Aix-les-Bains - Neuchatel, 218.5 km)

Stage 19 (La Chaux de Fonds - Autun, 242 km)

Stage 20 (Montceau les Mines - Le Creusot, 52 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 21 (Melun - Paris/Champs Élysées, 147.5 km)

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The 1998 Tour de France 25 Years Later... A “Last Rider” Review... And the Arc of Cycling History

1998 was a remarkable summer... although nothing compares to 1989

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Tour 98: Jan Ullrich fährt vor Marco Pantani

Forgive me if I am being a bit nostalgic — maybe it’s just my age. Or maybe it’s what I do best now. Probably it has something to do with a slew of cycling media, actual and rumored, taking us back in time to the... if not good old days, certainly some very charismatic ones. Those late-20th Century days.

I launched myself back into the Jan Ullrich story last month, which is my own choosing/fault, although in part because we have been promised a new documentary which will finally clear up his mysterious story, though of course that seems to have disappeared once again. Oh, and over the past weekend my wife and I went to see The Last Rider , a spectacular replay of the 1989 Tour de France and the ... well, more on that in a minute. I did feel some pangs of annoyance coming out of there and into this year’s Tour, which started in the Basque Country and briefly included an appearance by Miguel Indurain, whose exploits are still celebrated as if there was nothing going on behind the scenes in cycling until after he left.

But mostly I feel prompted by anniversaries, and 25 years ago we watched one of the craziest Tours de France ever, loaded with the very best and absolute worst kind of (non-crash-related) drama imaginable. It was a charisma clash of the titans, and to this day the spectre of doping only partially peels back the emotion this race generated in Italy (and maybe parts of Germany too). The role of doping, however, dominated the events day-to-day, as the world was forced to really look at the influence of performance-enhancing substances for the first time, and the riders had to face the resulting backlash from within and without, for the first time as well.

Three things happened coming into the 1998 Tour de France that shook the sport in a major way. One was the rapid rise of Jan Ullrich, who had graduated a year earlier from super-talented understudy to Bjarne Riis to dominant maillot jaune, poised to rewrite the record books. The next major event was the crystalizing of Marco Pantani’s career as a grand tour rider. Prior to 1998, he had two third place finishes at the Tour (including the previous edition) and was runner-up in the 1994 Giro d’Italia, but then suffered a pair of training accidents, the second one which wiped out almost all of his 1996 season and threatened to derail his promising career entirely. His rebound at the ‘97 Tour reawakened the excitement, which then went through the roof as he won the 1998 Giro, reversing a four-minute deficit with a swashbuckling attacking style on the Marmolada and subsequent days to throw Italy into a complete frenzy, six weeks before the Tour.

Marco Pantani

The third and most destabilizing event setting the scene for the 1998 Tour was the arrest of Cofidis soigneur Willy Voet on his way to the Tour’s start in Dublin. He was nabbed at the border of Belgium and France with a veritable pharmacy in his car. This was actually the second such revelation after a TVM team vehicle was seized in Reims three months earlier. French police shifted their anti-doping activities into high gear after Voet’s arrest on July 8, raiding the Cofidis HQ the next day while the riders warmed up for the start of the race in Dublin two days later, July 11.

The Festina Affair, as it came to be known, was unavoidable for even those fans who didn’t care about doping, because it put a huge dent into the high hopes of Richard Virenque, runner-up in 1997, and his French supporters who were otherwise staring down the barrel at either a German or Italian favorite for yellow in ‘98 — two pretty bitter pills to swallow. So, to recap, we had a very charismatic, intriguing GC battle shaping up... under not so much a cloud of suspicion but a series of increasingly deafening thunderclaps.

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This is why I think it’s worth looking back at 1998. I don’t love rubbernecking at doping disasters, but even though doping makes you wonder if you should care at all, well, we sure did have some Shakespearian-level drama. Rather than a complete blow-by-blow retelling of the 1998 Tour, here are the main points.

  • Police kept raiding potential dopers — over the course of the Tour they stopped all the cars coming back from Ireland, they raided the TVM and Casino-AG2R team hotel rooms, and they held numerous riders and staff from Cofidis and TVM for intense questioning. Cofidis were the first team to capitulate and leave the race en masse , but they were followed by TVM, ONCE, Banesto (Indurain’s old team), Kelme, Vitalico Seguros, and Riso Scotti. Journalists were dumpster diving for doping evidence. Riders began to feel besieged on all sides, and on both stages 12 and 17 they sat in the road, refusing to race, to protest their treatment. It sounds ugly now, but in context, let’s just say that years of winks and nods didn’t prepare them for this sudden wave of accountability demands. It seemed at one point like the Tour might not make it to Paris.
  • One last thing about the doping is the sudden appearance of new tests, which the riders were unhappy about. Well, they weren’t great tests apparently, because none of them turned up positive, but the riders were right to be scared. In 2004, new tests were used to retroactively analyze samples from 1998 and they were nearly all positive for recombinant EPO, with Pantani, Ullrich, Erik Zabel, Mario Cipollini and Abraham Olano among the guilty.
  • The racing part started as expected with Ullrich crushing the stage 7 time trial and ascending into yellow, 4+ minutes up on Pantani, then giving the jersey away, then retaking it in the Pyrénées, seemingly for good, though Pantani nabbed a stage to emerge from the first mountain phase a manageable three minutes back.
  • Then the hot weather which Ullrich loved so much turned cold, and on a four-col ride to Les Deux Alpes, Pantani soared away from everyone on the Galibier, regrouped with a few climbers (not including the maillot jaune) on the descent, then rode into pure legend — on several levels — on the final climb, leaving Ullrich nearly nine minutes back after an ill-timed puncture, and now six minutes down on GC. The next day, Ullrich tried to turn the tables on another Alps stage to Albertville, but Pantani hung with him and the pair decimated the competition with the German taking the stage and the Italian consolidating his overall lead. By Paris, Ullrich had won another time trial and vaulted back into second place, still more than three minutes back, to be sure, but Pantani’s triumph came with at least one (non-doping) footnote: one bad day aside, Der Jan was still a force to be reckoned with.

Tour 98: Fahrerstreik vor dem Start zur 12. Etappe

There has never been another Tour like this in the modern era. Political (small-p) squabbles have arisen on occasion, but this time it wasn’t angry farmers or rider solidarity against bad conditions — it was an all-out battle for the soul of the sport, with the riders and teams and UCI on one side, and the Tour de France, probably 90% of the French public, some large contingent of French police, and the mostly-horrified international fan base on the other. The battles raged on and off the bike, and while fights for yellow have taken all sorts of twists and turns, this one came with the main characters all hopelessly intertwined with the off-bike madness. We were literally talking about whether the sport was about to disappear.

Last Saturday my partner Stacey and I went to a small, quirky movie theater over by the University of Washington where you can sit in comfy seats, in screening rooms as small as 30-person capacity, and sip on elaborate cocktails with vodka-infused non-dairy whipped toppings. Showing was The Last Rider , a documentary on Greg LeMond’s victory over Laurent Fignon in the 1989 Tour de France, which I wanted to see ASAP for several reasons. First, I suspected it wasn’t going to draw enough eyeballs to stay on the big screen for long, and sure enough we sat in the tiny screening room with two other people on a Saturday evening that coincided with the Grand Depart of the 2023 Tour. As of this writing it looks like it lasted four more days of mid-afternoon screenings on the other side of Puget Sound, and then was gone from theaters.

The movie ticks off the details of LeMond’s incredible comeback story chronologically, leading up to the ‘89 Tour, updated from the last version of the story (which has passed through several books but no films) to include the role of LeMond’s struggles from having been sexually abused as a teenager by a family friend. It’s otherwise re-plowing old turf for LeMond fans until they start in on 1989, from which point the story of the Tour is told by LeMond, his wife Kathy, of course. Plus Pedro Delgado, the defending champion who lost the Tour in the first week by showing up 2:30 too late for his prologue start, then went into a shame spiral that saw him fall even further behind before turning back into the championship-level rider we all expected him to be that summer. And Cyrille Guimard, speaking for the late Fignon, who died of cancer in 2010, though he was LeMond’s DS for a while too and knew the race inside and out.

If you’ve heard it all before, then it’s Delgado whose perspective makes it all the more interesting. Not only because his story deserves to not get lost in the shuffle of events, but because he has a neutral perspective on what LeMond and Fignon were up to. He’s also a polished media personality and a likeable guy, a nice balance between the affable but very emotionally-driven (aka biased) LeMond and the absent, dearly departed Fignon whose presence is largely video of his prickly jousts with the media. The stories and footage are all pulsating with drama like no sporting event before or since... as you already knew.

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If I feel differently about the story at all, it’s that maybe I hadn’t fully appreciated the extent of the pain Fignon was experiencing as a result of saddle sores and/or swollen testicles. It sounded frightful and Guimard reveals that there was talk of him not starting the final stage. It upends the narrative of LeMond’s heroism and aero bars and anything else you want to ascribe the final eight-second difference to — though of course all of those things were real, LeMond did ride heroically, even if a healthy Fignon probably finds a smoother rhythm and only loses half his 50-second lead rather than all of it and more. But that’s cycling.

After the movie Stacey and I went out to eat and talked about how amazing the story was, as well as how stunningly similar it was to the Armstrong comeback... up to a point. The only two American champions of the Tour ( asterisk asterisk ), precocious world champions who then found themselves on death’s door and really should not have survived their respective ordeals — LeMond’s shotgun wound and Armstrong’s cancer. They each struggled to resume their careers only to win the Tour de France on their first try after returning to health. The races themselves were incredible stories of overcoming uncertain fitness, but even more incredible lifetime achievements.

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And then they diverge, rather jarringly. LeMond’s story is truncated by the very doping culture that Armstrong mastered en route to his version of redemption. After a while their stories didn’t just stop paralleling each others but became set against each other in an existential flame war, LeMond calling out Armstrong’s suspicious activities and Armstrong setting out to destroy LeMond’s life, business interests and so on. Two stories borne of incredible human will, one ascending to the heights of human decency and the other bound straight for the ultimate depths. It’s like a chapter of the Bible. And I’m talking Old Testament/Torah level. As I write and think about this for the umpteenth time, I still can’t believe it all happened.

Without the 1998 Tour, the story remains incomplete. That was the race where the warning alarms started ringing, when taking some action toward change became a notion, when the long march back to respectability took its initial, tentative steps. The Armstrong Era was a false redemption story, a desperate grab for an easy solution whose utter failure told everyone to stop looking for easy solutions. If 1998 brought the problems out into the open, 1999 and beyond showed how deep they ran and how pernicious they were.

Now? I won’t ask anyone to stake their reputation on declaring the doping era totally over now, absent some deep insider knowledge that I doubt any of us possesses. But I do think that doping has receded into the shadows and has either shrunk down to the size of a small blemish on the face of the sport, or has shifted in nature to something we know nothing about. I do think we have come full circle back to the glory days of my early cycling fandom, the 1980s, albeit as a sport looks and feels different, more calculating and less biblical. It’s fun to contrast this time with those days, as estranged as these generations of cyclists may be to each other ... provided we can skip over the 90s and Aughts for the most part.

So, to me, I feel like I can believe in Cycling again, like I did in 1989, because of that 1998 Tour de France a quarter-century ago, when we all collectively took that first step toward asking, finally, what are we doing? A lot of people played big roles in turning the sport around, but on this dark anniversary we must recognize the French public and the French police and the Tour de France all remembering cycling in its highest form and having that extra certainty and determination that the sport needed saving. Not to diminish the other people sounding the alarms, but the Tour has long been the sport’s backbone, and the people who knew that best became the backbone of the anti-doping movement. That car stop on the Belgian border 25 years ago was just what we needed.

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The top three podium finishers at the 1998 Tour de France took EPO during the race, according to a report published by French daily Le Monde on Tuesday. Italian Marco Pantani, Germany’s Jan Ullrich, and American Bobby Julich were named along with German sprinter Erik Zabel, who won the green jersey for the best sprinter that year.

All three named athletes have previously been identified as dopers. Julich admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs in 2012 and resigned from Team Sky, saying that during the 1998 Tour de France his wife confronted him about his behavior. After years of silence and cryptic comments, Ullrich came clean about his use of PEDs earlier this year. And Pantani, one of the greatest climbers in cycling’s history, has long been associated with doping, dating back to his disqualification at the 1999 Giro d’Italia for an hematocrit reading above 52 percent, a sign of EPO or blood doping.

While Le Monde’s report jives with accounts about Pantani, Ullrich, and Julich’s past, it contradicts a 2007 statement made by Zabel, who confessed to taking EPO for the 1996 Tour de France. Contrary to the latest report, he had claimed to have tried doping for only a week, stopping due to side effects.

Since May, a debate has raged over the release of the names. The family of Pantani, who died in 2004, has come out strongly against naming riders. Last Friday, the professional cyclists’ association also came out against publication.

“Publication of a list amounts … to an accusation of doping without any means of defense,” the CPS said, arguing that no counter-analysis was possible as the original samples no longer existed.

The release comes a day before the French Senate is set to release the full list of riders flagged as positive for EPO in retroactive tests from the 1998 Tour. A full dossier of more than 40 names is expected Wednesday.

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NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Paris where Marco Patani became the first Italian in 33 years to win the Tour de France bicycle race. This year the race was plagued by drug scandals involving at least six teams, and organizers and fans wonder if the competition can recover.

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The explainer: that questionable tour de france podium – updated list and an important postscript, that questionable tour de france podium - updated list and an important postscript.

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Q. Dear Explainer, For years now, ever since the Festina Affair, there has been much talk about achieving a “drug free” sport in cycling. While this is certainly a noble cause, how realistic are we being? Tell me this. List every Tour de France podium since 1996 and tell me how many riders on that list never A) received a ban for doping, B) retired under a cloud of suspicion (I know that is subjective, but I think we can agree it fits both Armstrong and Ullrich) or C) are currently involved in a doping investigation? Once you go through that exercise it seems to me we are asking the wrong question. It’s not “who has doped?” it’s “who hasn’t?”.

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Personally, I remain skeptical that a “drug free” sport is any more realistic than America’s War on Drugs program. Interestingly, other sports don’t even put forth the effort of chasing that goal other than some lip service via a cursory program that pales in comparison to what cycling does.

Best Regards, – Ron

A. Dear Ron, Yeah, I have to admit that I was one of those starry-eyed optimists who thought the Festina mess in the 1998 Tour would, forever, clean up the sport of cycling. Standing in the media scrum on the courthouse steps in Lille, as the management and some riders from the team were in a hearing, one reporter asked then-French Federation president Daniel Baal whether the scandal and the ensuing public spotlight on the problem was “somehow a positive development” for cycling.

“Well these days, I wouldn’t necessarily use the word positive ,” Baal said with a grin, “but I think this could be a step in the right direction. It will be harder to dope and get away with it.”

Obviously that hasn’t been the case. The scandal did lead to the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency and so-called “harmonization” of testing procedures and penalties, but the system is still rife with problems and – as the answer to your question depressingly underscores – the sport is still populated by those who at least think they can get away with doping.

So, as one of my favorite sportscasters often says, “let’s rollll the video tape,” and look back at the last 15 years’ worth of Tours and see what the record books might show.*

First off, in the interest of fairness, we can’t just put a black mark or an asterisk next to a name and move on to the next. Each of these cases is different and each warrants at least a bit of explanation. Those explanations will accompany the first reference to a particular rider, even when the allegations or suspensions involve earlier or subsequent incidents.

1. Bjarne Riis – Known by many in the peloton as “Mr. 60%,” Riis admitted in a 2008 autobiography to have doped his way to the win. Since the confession came 12 years after the fact, the win is still treated as such in the record books. 2. Jan Ullrich – Once briefly suspended for the recreational use of ecstasy, Ullrich was later implicated in the 2006 Operación Puerto scandal and was barred from starting the Tour that year. Ullrich was also the subject of many allegations leveled by former teammates and former staff members in what became known as the “Telekom Affair.” He retired after police claimed to have definitive DNA evidence linking him to blood seized in the Puerto case 3. Richard Virenque – Implicated in the 1998 Festina Affair, Virenque was suspended for six months, but denied involvement in doping until a public confession in 2000.

1. Ullrich ( See above ) 2. Virenque ( See above ) 3. Marco Pantani – Although he never tested directly positive for doping, Pantani was ejected from the 1999 Giro d’Italia for having a higher-than-allowable hematocrit level as he was leading the race, just one day before the final stage. The decision eventually destroyed his career and he died of a cocaine overdose in 2004.

1. Pantani ( See above ) 2. Ullrich ( See above ) 3. Bobby Julich – No allegations, no adverse analytical findings.

1. Lance Armstrong – Armstrong has been the subject of numerous allegations since his first Tour win in 1999. He has always denied those and continues to do so. Armstrong is currently the subject of a federal investigation into doping practices and associated financial issues in the United States. A 2005 re-test of samples from the 1999 showed 16 samples to be positive for EPO. Six of those reportedly belonged to Armstrong. Due to several breaches of laboratory protocols and rules governing the handling of samples, the UCI cleared Armstrong of any wrong doing. Armstrong also tested positive for corticosteroids at the 1999, but later produced a prescription for a topical cream containing corticoids. 2. Alex Zülle – A member of the 1998 Festina team, Zülle admitted to having used EPO over several years. He was allowed to race the 1999 Tour. He retired after the 2004 season. 3. Fernando Escartin – No allegations, no adverse analytical findings.

1. Armstrong ( See above ) 2. Ullrich ( See above ) 3. Joseba Beloki – Implicated in the 2006 Operación Puerto case. He was later cleared by Spanish authorities.

1. Armstrong ( See above ) 2. Ullrich ( See above ) 3. Beloki ( See above )

1. Armstrong ( See above ) 2. Beloki ( See above ) 3. Raimondas Rumsas – On the final day of the 2002 Tour, Rumsas’ wife Edita was arrested with a variety of steroids, EPO and growth hormone in her car, but claimed they were for her mother-in-law. Rumsas tested positive for EPO at the 2003 Giro d’Italia and was suspended for two years. Both he and his wife were given four-month suspended prison sentences for the 2002 incident.

1. Armstrong ( See above ) 2. Ullrich ( See above ) 3. Alexander Vinokourov – Tested positive for homologous blood doping at the 2007 Tour de France. Ultimately suspended for two years.

1. Armstrong ( See above ) 2. Andreas Klöden – Implicated in the Telekom affair. No action taken. 3. Ivan Basso – Implicated in the 2006 Operación Puerto scandal, Basso was barred from starting the Tour that year. He denied involvement in blood doping, but eventually admitted to having intended to dope as an explanation for seized blood bags having been linked to him by use of DNA evidence. He was suspended for two years.

1. Armstrong ( See above ) 2. Basso ( See above ) 3. Ullrich ( See above )

1. Óscar Pereiro – Named the winner of the 2006 Tour, after disqualification of Floyd Landis for a testosterone positive, Pereiro, a former teammate of Landis’ was among those riders against whom Landis later leveled charges. Pereiro offered a very narrow and carefully worded (some have said “tepid”) defense against those allegations . 2. Klöden ( See above ) 3. Carlos Sastre – No allegations, no adverse analytical findings.

1. Alberto Contador – Implicated in the 2006 Operación Puerto case. He was later cleared by Spanish authorities. Tested positive for clenbuterol in the 2010 Tour and is currently awaiting resolution of that case. 2. Cadel Evans – No allegations, no adverse analytical findings. 3. Levi Leipheimer – Leipheimer was suspended for three months for a positive test for ephedrine in 1996. He was accused of doping by his former Gerolsteiner manager Hans-Michael Holczer. Leipheimer denied the allegations and no action has ever resulted.

1. Sastre– No allegations, no adverse analytical findings. 2. Evans– No allegations, no adverse analytical findings. 3. Bernhard Kohl – Kohl finished third in the Tour and also won the climber’s jersey that year. Following the Tour, he was found to have tested positive for CERA. Kohl later confessed and was suspended for two years. He has since retired from the sport. His 2008 Tour results have been stricken from the record books.

1. Contador ( See above ) 2. Andy Schleck – No allegations, no adverse analytical findings. 3. Armstrong ( See above )

1. Contador ( See above ) 2. Schleck– No allegations, no adverse analytical findings. 3. Denis Menchov – No allegations, no adverse analytical findings.

OK, Ron, you’ve really depressed me, now. It kinda reminds me of a few years ago when we were doing an end-of-the-year issue of VeloNews and one of the editors asked me to do a summary of doping cases that year. I thought I might need a full page. By the time I got done, I filled four and only because we all tried to keep the accompanying text to a minimum.

Anyway, so there you have it. A lot of these, Armstrong’s for example, remain merely allegations. There has been no definitive action taken in some of these matters and they remain allegations until proven otherwise.

But no matter how you look at it, it’s disheartening to scroll through the record books and see even question marks hanging over the heads of many who have stood on that hallowed podium in Paris. Some stories, like Pantani’s downward spiral, are just tragic. Others, like the portable pharmacy in the Rumsas family car or the weepy denials that ultimately led to Virenque’s confession, elicited a few laughs in the press room.

Either way, the list should serve as a reminder that this sport has a long, long, long way to go. It may seem when you look back at the scandal of the `98 Tour, that there hasn’t been a lot of progress, but – starry-eyed optimist that I still am – there are glimmers of hope out there. No, I wouldn’t stake a positive outlook on any one single rider, but there is a trend developing and there are opportunities for young riders out there who may not have to face a decision to either dope or pack it in and go home.

I don’t think the effort is unwinnable. It just seems that it’s taking a helluva lot longer than many of us would have thought back in 1998.

* Update, corrections and a postscript: Several readers have pointed out that I “overused” the “No allegations, no adverse analytical findings” tag in my list. Both Andreas Klöden and Óscar Pereiro have had allegations leveled at them in the past and I have updated the list to reflect that. I appreciate the feedback and take your comments to heart.

Finally, I wanted to add one note about the depressing nature of the data we’ve listed above. I’ve wrestled with the implications of all of that for years and have often struggled with a way to answer the inevitable question of why I still love the sport of cycling. The doping depresses me. I am often skeptical of what I see, but there is something indescribable about the beauty of cycling … well, indescribable until today. A friend just sent me the attached YouTube video and I kinda think it sums how a lot of us feel about the bike … and perhaps even the momentary rush we feel when we do it well. Frankly, it IS about the bike and how that wonderful example of human ingenuity makes us feel. Yeah, I know, it’s sappy, but starry-eyed optimist that I am, I still think we can get rid of the cheats by the time this guy is old enough to race. As the man says, let’s just keep practicing until we get it right.

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French Senate releases positive EPO cases from 1998 Tour de France

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The French Senate has released the names of riders who returned traces of EPO in doping controls during the 1998 Tour de France . On Wednesday morning the Senate met to discuss their report, which had gathered testimonies from 83 sportsmen and officials since February, including UCI President Pat McQuaid and former rider and French national coach Laurent Jalabert.

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Along with naming riders who had tested positive the anti-doping commission of the French Senate made proposals to strengthen the fight against drugs and released documents including retrospective analysis conducted on the samples of cyclists during the 1998 Tours de France.

The samples, although taken in 1998, were part of a retroactive testing programme carried out by the French Anti-Doping Agency AFLD in 2004. The list contains 18 riders with traces of EPO and 12 riders that the Senate reported as suspicious.

The Senate ordered that no results would be stripped as a result of their report: "Nobody will face sanctions. We aren’t policemen. We aren’t magistrates. We haven’t noted absolute lies but put-offs and self-censorship," they said.

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  1. 1998 Tour de France

    The 1998 Tour de France was the 85th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 3,875 km (2,408 mi) race was composed of 21 stages and a prologue. ... Pantani was greeted on the podium by Felice Gimondi, who had been invited by Jean-Marie Leblanc to present to the crowd the first Italian winner since his own victory in 1965.

  2. 1998 Tour de France by BikeRaceInfo

    1998 Tour de France final podium: Left to right, Ullrich, Pantani and Julich. Of 189 starters in this Tour, 96 finished. Marco Pantani (Mercatone Uno): 92 hours 49 minutes 46 seconds. Pantani became the first Italian to win the Tour since Felice Gimondi in 1965.

  3. Tour de France 1998

    Le Tour de France 1998 est la 85 e édition du Tour de France cycliste, ce tour est aussi surnommé « le tour de la honte » en raison des affaires de dopage qui l'ont entaché. Il commence à Dublin, en Irlande, le 11 juillet et se termine à Paris le 2 août 1998, après 21 étapes pour 3 875 km.Cette date inhabituelle est due à la concurrence de la Coupe du monde de football 1998 ...

  4. Tour de France 1998 Stage 21 results

    Stage 21 (Final) » Melun › Paris (147km) Marco Pantani is the winner of Tour de France 1998, before Jan Ullrich and Bobby Julich. Tom Steels is the winner of the final stage.

  5. Tour de France Winners, Podium, Times

    Tour statistics (dates, distances, average speed, etc.) Tour de France prizes, winners and total prize pools, by year. From 1930 to 1961 plus 1967 and 1968, national and regional rather than trade teams competed. On October 22, 2012 Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour victories. Content continues below the ads.

  6. Results of the 1998 Tour de France

    Jerseys of the 1998 Tour de France. Yellow jersey (winner of the Tour de France) : Marco Pantani in 92h49'46". Polka dot jersey (best climber) : Christophe Rinero with 200 points. Green jersey (best sprinter) : Erik Zabel with 327 points. White jersey (best young rider) : Jan Ullrich in 92h53'07".

  7. The 1998 Tour de France 25 Years Later... A "Last Rider" Review... And

    The movie ticks off the details of LeMond's incredible comeback story chronologically, leading up to the '89 Tour, updated from the last version of the story (which has passed through several ...

  8. Tour de France 1998 Stage 1 results

    Stage 1 » Dublin › Dublin (180km) Tom Steels is the winner of Tour de France 1998 Stage 1, before Erik Zabel and Robbie McEwen. Chris Boardman was leader in GC.

  9. BBC NEWS

    Sunday, 2 August, 1998, 17:11 GMT 18:11 UK. Pirate takes yellow treasure. Yellow blur-sey: A Pirate in Paris complete with dyed beard. Italy's Marco Pantani confirmed his Tour win as the rain stopped to allow a final sprint finish on a wet day in Paris. Belgian Tom Steels won the stage - his fourth of the race - as what was left of this year's ...

  10. 1998 Tour de France Podium: (l to r) Jan Ullrich, Marco Pantani and

    1998 Tour de France Podium: (l to r) Jan Ullrich, Marco Pantani and Bobby Julich (image courtesy of Tour de France site) April 18, 2012 600 × 500 Friday Feature EXCLUSIVE: Up close & personal with Sky's Bobby Julich.

  11. List of Tour de France winners

    1998 Italy: Marco Pantani ... The following riders have won the Tour de France on 2 or more occasions. ... C. a b Floyd Landis was the winner at the podium ceremony in Paris on the last day of the 2006 Tour, but later was found to have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during stage 17 of the race.

  12. Top 3 Finishers in 1998 Tour Test Positive

    The top three podium finishers at the 1998 Tour de France took EPO during the race, according to a report published by French daily Le Monde Tuesday.

  13. Bobby Julich

    The embattled 1998 Tour de France was a breakthrough for Julich, when he took over the team leadership from Italian Francesco Casagrande. Following the doping scandal of the 1998 Tour, only 96 of 189 riders completed the race, and Julich finished third on the podium with winner Pantani and runner-up Ullrich.

  14. 1998 Tour de France pt 1 of 2

    1998 edition of the Tour de FranceThe year it all fell apart

  15. Tour de France 1998 Stage 2 results

    Tour de France. Stage 2. ». Enniscorthy. ›. Cork. (205.5km) Ján Svorada is the winner of Tour de France 1998 Stage 2, before Robbie McEwen and Mario Cipollini. Erik Zabel was leader in GC.

  16. 1998 Tour de France stage 15

    Stage 15 of the 1998 Tour de France

  17. The 1998 Tour de France: Police raids, arrests, protests... and a bike

    Richard Virenque answers questions during the manic days of July 1998. (Image credit: AFP) The 1998 Tour de France was won by Marco Pantani, but it will always be remembered for police raids ...

  18. Tour De France : NPR

    NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Paris where Marco Patani became the first Italian in 33 years to win the Tour de France bicycle race. This year the race was plagued by drug scandals involving ...

  19. Tour de France 1998 Stage 20 (ITT) results

    Montceau-les-Mines. ›. Le Creusot. (53km) Jan Ullrich is the winner of Tour de France 1998 Stage 20 (ITT), before Bobby Julich and Marco Pantani. Marco Pantani was leader in GC.

  20. Tour de France

    The Tour de France (French pronunciation: [tuʁ də fʁɑ̃s]; English: Tour of France) is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France. It is the oldest of the three Grand Tours (the Tour, the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta a España) and is generally considered the most prestigious.. The race was first organized in 1903 to increase sales for the newspaper L'Auto and ...

  21. The Explainer: That questionable Tour de France podium

    Alexander Vinokourov - Tested positive for homologous blood doping at the 2007 Tour de France. Ultimately suspended for two years. 2004. 1. Armstrong (See above) 2. Andreas Klöden - Implicated in the Telekom affair. No action taken. 3. Ivan Basso - Implicated in the 2006 Operación Puerto scandal

  22. 1997 Tour de France

    The 1997 Tour de France was the 84th edition of the Tour de France and took place from 5 to 27 July. ... although he did reach the podium four more times finishing second to Pantani in 1998 and standing 2nd on the podium to Lance Armstrong three times. He also reached the podium in the 2005 Tour de France, but that result was later voided.

  23. French Senate releases positive EPO cases from 1998 Tour de France

    Marco Pantani, Jan Ullrich and Bobby Julich on the podium at the end of the 1998 Tour de France. (Image credit: AFP Photo) The French Senate has released the names of riders who returned traces of ...