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Two major teams have withdrawn from the Tour de France in the past two days after their riders failed drug tests.

And then, late Wednesday, another bombshell: Michael Rasmussen, the man who was leading the Tour, was fired by his team.

Rasmussen was taken out of the race by the Rabobank team after questions arose about his whereabouts when he was unavailable for doping exams earlier this year.

Rasmussen won Wednesday's stage and had looked set to win the race, which ends Sunday.

Earlier Wednesday, cyclists from eight French and German teams sat out the start of stage 16.

They said they delayed their start to protest the drug abuse in their sport.

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Michael Rasmussen

Published 26/07/2007 at 13:44 GMT

A look at the career of Michael Rasmussen, who has been sacked by his team Rabobank when leading the Tour de France with only four days left and forced out of the race.

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Tour de France Leader Kicked Off Danish Team

By Edward Wyatt

• July 19, 2007

MONTPELLIER, France, July 19 — Michael Rasmussen, the current leader of the Tour de France, has been kicked off the Danish national cycling team because of repeated failures to give the sport’s antidoping officials the required notice of his whereabouts while training, the Danish Cycling Union said Thursday.

The exclusion will affect Rasmussen’s participation in the cycling world championships later this year and the Olympics in Beijing next year as a member of the Danish team. It was not clear tonight whether the situation would affect Rasmussen’s participation in the Tour de France or on the Rabobank team.

The Tour de France organization has been adamant about excluding riders who are part of an ongoing doping investigation. Tonight, a Tour official told Reuters that Tour would not comment until it had more information.

The director of the Danish cycling union, Jesper Worre, told the DR1 Danish television station that Rasmussen has not tested positive. “But there are a number of question marks over his behavior and attitude” that warrant the exclusion from the national team, Worre said.

A Rabobank team manager told Reuters that Rasmussen had been reprimanded by the International Cycling Union for repeatedly failing to give his whereabouts. Rasmussen said that he had received only one notice about his failure to provide information, not the “several” that cycling officials claim were sent.

“I have tried to give my explanations” to cycling officials, “but they haven’t accepted them,” Rasmussen told the Danish newspaper Politiken. “But this isn’t something that will interfere with my participation in the Tour de France.”

Rasmussen was told of the decision by the cycling union on June 26, more than a week before the start of the Tour de France. It is unclear why the information was only now being made public by the cycling union.

Top-level professional cyclists are required to notify the International Cycling Union of their whereabouts so that they can be tested outside of competition. Antidoping officials can show up at any time and demand a drug test; if a rider is not where he is supposed to be on three occasions within 18 months, it counts as a failed test.

Rasmussen was questioned by reporters earlier this week about his training schedule. He regularly trains in Mexico, his wife’s native country, which is far from the usual routes of cycling antidoping officials. Rasmussen also said that he sometimes trains wearing a neutral jersey, so as not to attract attention from fans, a practice that has been labeled suspicious by antidoping officials.

Rasmussen remained in the lead of the Tour after today’s 11th stage, which was won by Robbie Hunter, who scored the first Tour victory by a South African rider.

Hunter made a blistering ride on a hot, windy day, producing the eighth-fastest road stage ever in the Tour. It was so fast, in fact, that David Zabriskie, a prominent American, was eliminated from the race for finishing outside the time limit.

The stage also saw the reemergence of Alexander Vinokourov, who, with an unsuccessful move near the finish, served warning that he can still attack. His Astana team also rode hard, leading an acceleration that surprised many riders in the group, particularly Christophe Moreau, who could not maintain the pace. The only French rider with a chance of winning the race, Moreau finished more than three minutes behind the other favorites and dropped from 6th place to 12th.

Hunter won the finishing sprint over a surging Fabian Cancellara in this city near the Mediterranean coast, finishing the 113-mile stage in 3 hours 47 minutes 50 seconds, an average speed of 29.87 miles an hour. That was the fastest stage since 2005, when Robbie McEwen won a 114-mile stage with an average speed of 30.19 miles an hour.

A five-man breakaway had a comfortable lead of more than seven minutes when, about 41 miles from the finish, the Astana team suddenly increased the pace. The five-man breakaway was caught with 23 miles to go, setting up the end of the stage for the sprinters. Vinokourov attacked with about two and a half miles remaining, and although his lead lasted for only a half-mile, it served notice to the others that, despite the earlier injuries, he was not finished racing.

Zabriskie, the American time trial champion, is, however, finished. He crossed the line 31 minutes behind Hunter, about six and a half minutes outside the time limit, which is determined based on the winner’s average speed and the difficulty of the stage.

On the rest day Monday, Zabriskie complained of pain in his left knee, in which he previously had screws inserted during surgery. The winner of the Tour prologue in 2005, and therefore the holder of the yellow jersey in that year’s early stages, Zabriskie said Monday that he had recently changed cycling shoes, something that might have contributed to his knee pain.

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Rasmussen's vanishing act tests his rivals' patience as Dane rides through storm

"Trust me," Michael Rasmussen almost pleaded to a press conference not long after taking the yellow jersey in the Alps and yesterday trust in the maillot jaune was at the heart of the latest doping storm to hit the Tour as the Pyrenean stages drew near.

Rasmussen refused to comment on an allegation that an artificial form of haemoglobin - which can be used to increase red cell count and enhance performance - was found in a box being delivered to him by an American cyclist, Whitney Richards, in 2002. "I cannot confirm any of that. I know his name, yeah," he said after yesterday's stage.

There was also some doubt about how many times the Tour de France leader had failed to clarify his whereabouts for out-of-competition testing. The Danish Cycling Federation announced late on Thursday night that it would not be selecting the little climber for the world road race championships or the Olympics because he had failed to give his whereabouts for two out-of-competition tests in May and June.

"One warning is one too many," said the federation's president, Tom Lund, yesterday, adding the proviso: "We do not suspect him of doping. We have ethical rules that everyone must respect and we do not feel Michael's behaviour meets that standard." The International Cycling Union said yesterday that while it respected the DCF's position, Rasmussen could not be stopped from competing. A further instance of failing to make his whereabouts known would result in disciplinary proceedings . Rasmussen said yesterday he had received two warnings from the ICU, one in March 2006. "I forgot to send in my second quota of information and they issued a warning on March 24." The second warning, he said, came on "29 or 26 June this year" and was followed by a further warning from the DCF.

The confusion may lie here as, according to Rasmussen, the DCF and ICU share a database, and the episode should count as a single "strike". He terminated his press conference without speaking about the alleged episode on May 8 referred to by the Danish federation.

Yesterday, when the Tour de France director, Christian Prudhomme, said he would make an announcement before the stage began, the speculation was that Rasmussen might not be permitted to start but instead Prudhomme had the air of a man frustrated by events beyond his control, like his predecessor, Jean-Marie Leblanc, in the early stages of the Festina scandal in 1998.

Prudhomme said Rasmussen had missed out-of-competition tests on May 8 and June 28 and received a warning from Anne Gripper, the I CU's head of anti-doping, on June 29. Three infringements would be considered equal to a positive test, so Rasmussen was not considered to have done anything wrong.

Rasmussen had been blood-tested twice before the Tour, said Prudhomme, on June 30 and July 5, and once on July 17. All three tests were negative. As the rider in the yellow jersey, he had also been urine tested on July 15, 17, 18 and 19 . The results for those tests are not available. "Is there any further information that might explain [the Danish federation's] sanction?" asked the Tour organiser. "Give us that information now ."

The managers of the French teams were particularly critical of the Dane. Jean-Rene Bernaudeau of Bouygues Telecom said a rider in Rasmussen's situation in his team would not be allowed to start the Tour, and Marc Madiot of La Francaise des Jeux described the Dane's actions as "more than questionable". Asked whether he felt he could trust Rasmussen, Madiot 's answer spoke volumes about the sport's state . "Can you trust anyone in cycling?"

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It was mere coincidence, perhaps, but it was hardly appreciated behind the darkened glass above that a small media scrum arrested Michael Rasmussen just as he was passing the Team Sky bus ahead of stage 14 of the Tour de France in Rodez.

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Rasmussen returned to the race on Saturday for the first time since he was excluded from the 2007 Tour while wearing the yellow jersey, after the furore surrounding his missed doping controls in the build-up finally proved too much even for his Rabobank team.

Following a two-year ban, Rasmussen made a low-key comeback with the Miche and Christina Watches Continental teams but was deemed persona non grata by squads at higher levels. Since confessing to doping in 2013, Rasmussen has set about building a new career for himself as a columnist.

While Lance Armstrong's controversial "return" to the Tour was limited to taking part in Geoff Thomas' charity ride a day ahead of the race caravan, Rasmussen will cover the remainder of this Tour from the press room for Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet.

Scarcely carrying a gram of fat more than during his time at CSC and Rabobank, the shaven-headed Rasmussen remains a distinctive figure, drawing plenty of double takes when he entered the village départ followed by a Danish television crew. "It's a little intense right now," he smiled. "But I imagine it will taper off over a few days. I won't seem quite as interesting and I can do my job."

Rasmussen spent his stint in the yellow jersey attempting to fend off the suspicions over his performances and his attempts to evade testing, and conversation inevitably turned to the current maillot jaune, Chris Froome (Sky), and the scrutiny that he has faced in recent days.

"For sure he's very focused on the weight and that certainly makes a difference, but I don't know how he is training and I would rather not speculate on it," Rasmussen said asked to draw comparisons between his and Froome's ability to glean so much power from such lean physiques. "It's been a long time since I've been competing at that level. I did it in another way and that was not quite according to the rules. I do not want to speculate on how he does it.

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"I think he's training shitloads to ride as fast as he does. I think all the yellow jerseys did."

Rasmussen blamed the weight of history for the innuendo that has greeted Froome's performances, pointing to an inconvenient truth by noted wryly that doping on the Tour pre-existed the blood doping era when asked if he felt that his generation had poisoned the well for the current crop.

"Yeah, I did. Or Eddy Merckx did, or Fausto Coppi did. Like I said before there's a long history of doping in cycling and unfortunately that's a heritage the cyclists today have to deal with it. It takes time to change a culture," he said.

"From the history of cycling, doping has been around all the time in cycling and unfortunately when people ride the way Froome does, people instantly speculate just because the only thing you have to do is look in the history books and see who has been cheating in the past to get the yellow jersey.”

Rasmussen went on to add that he had sympathy for the position Froome finds himself in. "It's sad that there's so much focus and speculation because there's no smoking gun. He's saying the right thing," he said. "I think he's actually very much at ease. If he knows he's clean then he has nothing to fear."

Asking the question

At the 2007 Tour, of course, Rasmussen had nine post-stage press conferences in the yellow jersey, and never conceded so much as an inch in that period. He gently dismissed the idea that the repeated blunt denials had been as difficult as the initial act of doping.

"If you accept the condition that once you answer the question honestly, your cycling career is over, then it's a stupid question to ask," Rasmussen said. "I've never heard any rider so far say ‘Yes' to the rolling camera while he's racing in his active career, so it's not really the answer that's wrong but the question. It doesn't change people's opinion whether you ask the question or not. It's a useless question."

Rasmussen is now, of course, on the other side of the fence, though he seemed at a loss as to what questions should instead be asked of suspect riders. "I don't know, I don't have the answer to that," he said. "But that question is definitely dumb because you know the answer."

In the aftermath of his exclusion from the 2007 Tour, Rasmussen complained that he had been made a scapegoat for cycling's ills, and continued to dope on his return to racing in 2010, though his 2013 confession provided important evidence for the Danish Anti-Doping Agency's recent inquiry on cycling in his home country.

Despite his assertion that there has been a change in mentality in the peloton – "It's a cleaner peloton now than it was ten years ago," he said – Rasmussen admitted that he had no regrets about the path he followed during his own career.

"I do not regret that I took doping if that's what you're asking," Rasmussen said. "I think that was a condition in order to be competitive and battling for what I was battling for in those times. I was pursuing victory in the Tour de France since I was 8 years old. If I had to stop that pursuit, I would have stopped it ten years before.

"I did what I felt I needed to do in order to be competitive, to achieve the goals." 

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2007: RASMUSSEN UNDER PRESSURE OVER MISSED DOPE TESTS

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Tour de France race leader Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) finished safely in the middle of the peloton as Tom Boonen (Quick Step) won the sprint in Castres but his troubled began as soon as he crossed the finish line.

Following the revelations that he had been issued a warning letter by the UCI after missing two out of competition doping tests, he was grilled by the media about other missed tests and asked to explain links with a former US mountain biker and a shoebox containing bovine haemoglobin.

Rasmussen has to answer three questions as Tour de France leader and tried to explain his version of events. He admitted he had missed two UCI tests and received warning letters in March 2006 and June this year. He also admitted missing a Danish Federation test but claimed that could be because the Danish Cycling Federation use the UCI database to monitor rider?s movements and so had the same lack or mistaken information on his whereabouts.

When asked by US cycling magazine Velonews about the former mountain biker Whitney Richards and the shoebox allegedly containing haemoglobin, Rasmussen admitted he knew Richards but did not go further. He was then quickly escorted out of the press conference truck. He had tried to come up with some answer but the questions and doubts about him continue to grow.

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Before the start of the stage Rasmussen needed police protection to ride to the sign on podium and start line and tried to play down the seriousness of having missed the tests.

"I feel this has been blown a little out of proportion. I can confirm I have no positive doping tests and I have been tested out of competition in June and those tests were negative. I certainly do want to continue riding the Tour de France,? he said.

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"I do admit I committed an administrative error. I have already received a warning from the UCI but I am very calm and very relaxed. I have full support from the ASO (the organisers of the Tour de France) and I don't blame the UCI, I take responsibility for not informing the UCI of my whereabouts.?

"I know a lot of riders who have received warnings for not giving updated information to the UCI. I'm just one out of many and it's just that I happen to have the yellow jersey."

On Thursday night, the director of the Danish Cycling Union (DCU) Jesper Worre told Danish television that Rasmussen had received a number of warnings over failing to inform doping authorities over his training whereabouts. The Danish Cycling Federation announced they had suspended Rasmussen from the Danish national team for the world championships in Stuttgart and the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

In an official statement issued on Friday afternoon, the UCI confirmed that Rasmussen has received two warnings and made it clear that if he missed another he would automatically face a disciplinary hearing. Under UCI and WADA rules if a rider misses three out of competition tests they are banned from competing for 18 months.

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