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.
'It's getting bizarre now!'
The 1998 Tour de France has now started and not exactly in the way that the official results will record. It was announced yesterday that the soigneur of the the French Festina team was arrested ...
Doping at the 1998 Tour de France
The year in which the 1998 Tour de France took place marked the moment when cycling was fundamentally shattered by doping revelations. Paradoxically no riders were caught failing drug tests by any of the ordinary doping controls in place at the time. Nevertheless, several police searches and interrogations managed to prove existence of organized doping at the two teams Festina and TVM, who ...
Top Team Expelled By Tour de France Over Drug Charges
Tour de France, bicycle racing's most prestigious and richest race, expels all nine members of Festina, world's top team, after its coach, Bruno Roussel, admits to supplying illegal performance ...
Festina (cycling team)
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]
BBC NEWS
The Tour de France is over but the drugs scandal that rocked cycling's most famous race is till causing shcok waves throughout the sport. ... Monday, 3 August, 1998, 12:44 GMT 13:44 UK Tour tarnished by drugs scandal. ... a car belonging to the Festina cycling team was found to contain huge quantities of various performance-enhancing drugs.
BBC NEWS
French police are questioning all nine riders from the disgraced Festina team expelled from the Tour de France last Friday. In the latest twist to the doping scandal which has overshadowed this year's event, the nine riders agreed to help the police with their inquiries over the discovery of 400 phials of performance-enhancing drugs in a Festina team car a fortnight ago.
Entire Festina Team Expelled From Tour De France
By SAMUEL ABT. RIVE LA GAILLARDE, France -- The Tour de France expelled all nine members of the world's top bicycle racing team late Friday after its coach admitted to a "concerted" practice of supplying illegal performance-enhancing drugs to his riders. At a late-night news conference, Jean-Marie Leblanc, the director of the Tour, said the ...
Tour de France, Bloodied by Drug Scandals, Limps Into Paris
Aug. 3, 1998. A depleted and demoralized Tour de France reached its finish in Paris on Sunday in what riders, officials and observers agreed was a state of crisis for the world's greatest bicycle ...
CYCLING; Tour de France Steadfast In Ouster of Festina Team
Organizers of the Tour de France refused to yield today to a demand by the expelled Festina team's riders that they be reinstated to the world's greatest bicycle race. ''If they insist on racing ...
BBC NEWS
As a result, there are now no Spanish teams left in the race. With the Festina team thrown out of the Tour last week, only 103 riders started the 18th stage. The race director, Jean-Marie Leblanc, has rejected rumours that the tour will fold, however, saying it will continue until its scheduled finish in Paris on Sunday.
The 1998 Tour de France: Police raids, arrests, protests... and a bike
By now - the 1998 Tour's third week - such events had become de rigeur. Kick-started by the Festina team's earlier eviction during week one, the TVM swoop was the latest raid after those ...
CYCLING; Cyclists Stage Protest as Drug Investigation Widens
The 85th Tour de France nearly unraveled today as at least five expelled riders admitted that they had used illegal drugs, a second team was warned about a possible ouster and the remaining riders ...
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. It started on 11 July in Ireland before taking an anti-clockwise route through France to finish in Paris on 2 August. Marco Pantani of Mercatone Uno-Bianchi won the overall ...
BBC SPORT
Team members Richard Virenque and Pascal Herve are the only ones who do not admit to taking drugs. 24 July 1998: A leg of the Tour de France is delayed for two hours after cyclists strike over the doping affair. Rijckaert denies doping allegations. 29 July 1998: Tour de France organizers cancel the Albertville-Aix-les-Bains stage after cyclists ...
From Festina to the biological passport: a retrospective
The Festina team headed for the nearest exit during the 1998 Tour de France. (Image credit: AFP) The Festina scandal provided a stark insight into the world of doping within the professional peloton.
O'Grady, Armstrong, Landis and Contador: Cycling's doping scandals
The scandal that overshadowed the 1998 Tour de France began when Festina team physiotherapist Willy Voet was intercepted with a car full of drugs on the Belgian border just before the start of the ...
The Legacy of Festina: Patterns of Drug Use in European Cycling Since 1998
25. Dominique Marchetti, 'The changing organization of the Tour de France and its media coverage: an interview with JeanMarie Leblanc', in Hugh Dauncey and Geoff Hare, eds., The Tour de France 1903-2003. A century of sporting structures, meanings and values, special issue of International Journal of the History of Sport, 20 (2003), pp. 54 ...
Tour de France
Pedalling drugs through Tour history. Tommy Simpson: Winning became too much. The world's media has descended on the Tour de France to witness what appears to be another major drugs scandal emerging at the very highest levels of sport. But while the Festina team, banned on Friday night from competition, try to make sense of their future, there ...
CYCLING; Coach of Cycling Team Suspended Over Drug Questions
International Cycling Union suspends Bruno Roussel, coach of top-ranked Festina team who has been taken into police custody in connection with drug scandal that threatens to overwhelm Tour de ...
PLUS: CYCLING -- TOUR DE FRANCE; Festina Racer Is Said To Pass Drug
Cyclist Richard Virenque, top cyclist for Festina team that was thrown out of Tour de France for using banned substances, reportedly passed drug test administered in July (S)
The End of the Road: The Festina Affair and the Tour that Almost
He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a ...
COMMENTS
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.
The 1998 Tour de France has now started and not exactly in the way that the official results will record. It was announced yesterday that the soigneur of the the French Festina team was arrested ...
The year in which the 1998 Tour de France took place marked the moment when cycling was fundamentally shattered by doping revelations. Paradoxically no riders were caught failing drug tests by any of the ordinary doping controls in place at the time. Nevertheless, several police searches and interrogations managed to prove existence of organized doping at the two teams Festina and TVM, who ...
Tour de France, bicycle racing's most prestigious and richest race, expels all nine members of Festina, world's top team, after its coach, Bruno Roussel, admits to supplying illegal performance ...
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]
The Tour de France is over but the drugs scandal that rocked cycling's most famous race is till causing shcok waves throughout the sport. ... Monday, 3 August, 1998, 12:44 GMT 13:44 UK Tour tarnished by drugs scandal. ... a car belonging to the Festina cycling team was found to contain huge quantities of various performance-enhancing drugs.
French police are questioning all nine riders from the disgraced Festina team expelled from the Tour de France last Friday. In the latest twist to the doping scandal which has overshadowed this year's event, the nine riders agreed to help the police with their inquiries over the discovery of 400 phials of performance-enhancing drugs in a Festina team car a fortnight ago.
By SAMUEL ABT. RIVE LA GAILLARDE, France -- The Tour de France expelled all nine members of the world's top bicycle racing team late Friday after its coach admitted to a "concerted" practice of supplying illegal performance-enhancing drugs to his riders. At a late-night news conference, Jean-Marie Leblanc, the director of the Tour, said the ...
Aug. 3, 1998. A depleted and demoralized Tour de France reached its finish in Paris on Sunday in what riders, officials and observers agreed was a state of crisis for the world's greatest bicycle ...
Organizers of the Tour de France refused to yield today to a demand by the expelled Festina team's riders that they be reinstated to the world's greatest bicycle race. ''If they insist on racing ...
As a result, there are now no Spanish teams left in the race. With the Festina team thrown out of the Tour last week, only 103 riders started the 18th stage. The race director, Jean-Marie Leblanc, has rejected rumours that the tour will fold, however, saying it will continue until its scheduled finish in Paris on Sunday.
By now - the 1998 Tour's third week - such events had become de rigeur. Kick-started by the Festina team's earlier eviction during week one, the TVM swoop was the latest raid after those ...
The 85th Tour de France nearly unraveled today as at least five expelled riders admitted that they had used illegal drugs, a second team was warned about a possible ouster and the remaining riders ...
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. It started on 11 July in Ireland before taking an anti-clockwise route through France to finish in Paris on 2 August. Marco Pantani of Mercatone Uno-Bianchi won the overall ...
Team members Richard Virenque and Pascal Herve are the only ones who do not admit to taking drugs. 24 July 1998: A leg of the Tour de France is delayed for two hours after cyclists strike over the doping affair. Rijckaert denies doping allegations. 29 July 1998: Tour de France organizers cancel the Albertville-Aix-les-Bains stage after cyclists ...
The Festina team headed for the nearest exit during the 1998 Tour de France. (Image credit: AFP) The Festina scandal provided a stark insight into the world of doping within the professional peloton.
The scandal that overshadowed the 1998 Tour de France began when Festina team physiotherapist Willy Voet was intercepted with a car full of drugs on the Belgian border just before the start of the ...
25. Dominique Marchetti, 'The changing organization of the Tour de France and its media coverage: an interview with JeanMarie Leblanc', in Hugh Dauncey and Geoff Hare, eds., The Tour de France 1903-2003. A century of sporting structures, meanings and values, special issue of International Journal of the History of Sport, 20 (2003), pp. 54 ...
Pedalling drugs through Tour history. Tommy Simpson: Winning became too much. The world's media has descended on the Tour de France to witness what appears to be another major drugs scandal emerging at the very highest levels of sport. But while the Festina team, banned on Friday night from competition, try to make sense of their future, there ...
International Cycling Union suspends Bruno Roussel, coach of top-ranked Festina team who has been taken into police custody in connection with drug scandal that threatens to overwhelm Tour de ...
Cyclist Richard Virenque, top cyclist for Festina team that was thrown out of Tour de France for using banned substances, reportedly passed drug test administered in July (S)
He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a ...