tour de france winners without doping

There have been allegations of doping in the Tour de France since the race began in 1903. Early Tour riders consumed alcohol and used ether, among other substances, as a means of dulling the pain of competing in endurance cycling. Riders began using substances as a means of increasing performance rather than dulling the senses, and organizing bodies such as the Tour and the International ...

In an interview with French news paper Le Parisien the five-times Tour de France winner Eddy Merckx says it is possible to win the Tour de France without doping. Merckx fitted with pacemaker. Giro ...

It reveals that the Tour de France winner in 42 of the last 55 years has been found guilty of doping at some point in his career, many of which having retroactively been stripped of their Tour ...

Following Lance Armstrong and Jan Ullrich at the 2003 Tour de France(Image credit: Sirotti) "It was impossible to win the Tour de France in my time without doping," Lance Armstrong told French ...

The years 1999-2005 remain blank in the Tour de France's records in acknowledgement of a doping problem in the sport that stretched far beyond Armstrong and his US Postal team.

On the eve of the 100th Tour de France, Lance Armstrong, one-time golden boy now pariah of the competition, has said it was impossible to win without doping. We take a look at five decades of data ...

The former seven-times Tour winner stated that the "reasoned decision" by which the US Anti-Doping Agency addressed his doping years "did not draw a true picture of cycling from the end of the ...

Tensions between the World Anti-Doping Agency and cycling's governing body over the controversial closure of the investigation into four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome's use of salbutamol ...

Published: July 4, 2014 12:57am EDT. Pumped. Armstrong in 2003. Jasper Juinen/EPA. With the start of the 101st Tour de France only one day away, the topic of doping in cycling will no doubt start ...

The interview was the latest blast from cycling's doping-tainted recent history to rain on the Tour's 100th race. Previously, Armstrong's former rival on French roads, 1997 Tour winner Jan Ullrich ...

The interview was the latest blast from cycling's doping-tainted recent history to rain on the 100th Tour. Previously, Armstrong's former rival on French roads, 1997 Tour winner Jan Ullrich ...

More importantly for Lance Armstrong, during the 7-year window when he won every Tour de France (1999-2005), 87% of the top-10 finishers (61 of 70) were confirmed dopers or suspected of doping.

The chart was updated on Oct. 10, 2012 to reflect admissions by Christian Vande-Velde and Tom Danielson revealed in the United States Anti-Doping Agency report on Lance Armstrong's doping offenses. An early version of the chart above was missing Alberto Contador as the fifth-place finisher in the 2011 Tour.

Maurice Garin, winner of the first Tour de France standing on the right. The man on the left is possibly Leon Georget (1903). ... 2008 winner Carlos Sastre was a rider who went his entire career without a single doping incident and between approximately 1994 and 2011 this was the only Tour to have a winner with a clear biological passport.

Multiple winners. The following riders have won the Tour de France on 2 or more occasions. Since the retirement of two-time winner Alberto Contador in 2017, the only active rider on the list as of that year is Chris Froome, currently with 4 wins. Contador had originally won three Tours, but was stripped of one following an anti-doping violation.

Leader Tadej Pogacar understands he could be questioned about doping if he wins the Tour de France because of the sport's history - but says he does not take shortcuts.

By Evan Hilbert. Jun 28, 2013 at 6:33 am ET • 1 min read. Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong claims he couldn't have won seven Tours de France titles without doping. (USATSI) Lance Armstrong sure ...

July 26, 2019. BRIANÇON, France — To watch the cyclists of the Tour de France assault the high Alps, those grand geologic up-thrusts of granite and limestone, to see men pedal through misting ...

The spectre of mechanical doping has reared its head once again at the Tour de France following a report citing several unnamed riders claiming to hear "strange noises" in the rear wheels of a ...

The 2018 Tour de France starts on Saturday in Noirmoutier. The 105th edition of the event hasn't even started yet and it has already been plagued by allegations of doping. Four-time winner and ...

Seven successive Tour de France races from 1999-2005 were officially declared without winners on Friday after the International Cycling Union (UCI) decided nobody would replace the disgraced Lance ...

Riders' rooms and the team bus were searched on Wednesday at the Tour de France but no arrests were made. The Bahrain-based team confirmed they had provided copies of their riders' training files ...

Biggest controversies, scandals in Tour de France history. From doping scandals to drug busts, the Tour de France has gone hand-in-hand with controversy over its 120 year history. The Tour de France, one of the three Grand Tours along with Giro D'Italia and Vuelta A Espana, has been the pinnacle of road bicycle racing.