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    Festina was a former professional cycling team that was active in the professional peloton from 1989 to 2001. The team was sponsored by the Swiss watch...
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  • belonging to the Festina cycling team just before the start of the race. A resulting investigation revealed systematic doping involving many teams in the Tour...
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  • Willy Voet (category Cycling people)
    and the Festina cycling team was suspended from the race. Further investigation led to the suspension, arrest and prosecution of numerous Festina and TVM...
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  • Eric Rijkaert (category Cycling coaches)
    with the Festina cycling team. He was said to be at the heart of the Festina affair of 1998 that led to the withdrawal of the entire Festina team during...
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    Laurent Brochard (category Doping cases in cycling)
    runner and started cycling competitively at 19. He started with Castorama and became part of Festina cycling team. His role in Festina was super-domestique...
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    example in the Festina affair, when a car with doping products for the Festina cycling team was found. The first doping test in cycling was used in the...
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  • car of the Festina cycling team just before the start of the race, which led to a large-scale police investigation against the Festina Team, this was followed...
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  • 2001 Vuelta a España (category 2001 in road cycling)
    total of 3,012 km (1,872 mi), and was won by Ángel Casero of the Festina cycling team at a speed of 42.534 km/h (26.429 mph). This edition of the Vuelta...
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    Tour DuPont (category Infobox cycling race articles using param (last))
    of the event back-to-back. The French rider Pascal Hervé, of the Festina cycling team, was second. The total prize money for the 1996 race was in excess...
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    Boyer was sacked as manager of the team, with Migraine blaming him for poor results: he was replaced by former Festina, Astana and FDJ–BigMat directeur...
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  • Festina affair – a series of doping investigations and scandals surrounding the 1998 Tour de France, initially focusing on the Festina cycling team,...
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    maintaining his innocence, his former teammates at Festina admitted taking EPO. Virenque joined Team Polti for the 1999 and 2000 seasons where he won the...
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    bicycle racing team. It folded in 2000, two years after suffering a doping scandal. Farm Frites continued as a sponsor in 2001 with the new team, Domo–Farm...
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    Lance Armstrong (category American cycling road race champions)
    Bassons was a rider for Festina at the time of the Festina affair and was widely reported by teammates as being the only rider on the team not to be taking...
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    following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cycling: Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the activity of using / riding...
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    Carlos Da Cruz (category French cycling biography, 1970s birth stubs)
    career, he rode for BigMat-Auber93 between 1997 and 2000, Festina in 2001 and then for UCI ProTeam Française des Jeux between 2002 and 2007. Circuit de la...
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    1998 Tour de France (category 1998 in road cycling)
    by a doping scandal, known as the Festina affair. Before the Tour began, Willy Voet, an assistant of the Festina team, was arrested at the Franco-Belgian...
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    David Millar (category British cycling road race champions)
    classification List of doping cases in cycling Yellow jersey statistics Time Trial (film) Banesto, GAN, Casino, Festina–Lotus, Française des Jeux and Cofidis...
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    Manolo Saiz (category Doping cases in cycling)
    co-sponsor. During the turmoil of the Festina affair during the 1998 Tour de France Saiz withdrew the ONCE-Deutsche Bank team. On 17 June 1999 The organisers...
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  • PDM (UCI team code: PDM) was a Dutch professional cycling team from 1986 until the end of 1992. Gin-MG was co-sponsor in Spanish races and Cidona was...
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    Christophe Moreau (category Doping cases in cycling)
    prematurely when he withdrew on the 12th stage. Festina choose to end its sponsorship of a cycling team so Moreau joined Crédit Agricole. In 2002, in his...
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  • Christophe Bassons (category Doping cases in cycling)
    Force Sud and then, when the team failed, for Festina, a watch and clock maker. Bassons became known during the 1998 Festina doping scandal, when the discovery...
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    The International Cycling Union (Union Cycliste Internationale or the UCI; ) is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international...
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    Richard Virenque (category Cycling announcers)
    the Maillot Jaune for two days in his entire career. In 1998 the Festina cycling team was disgraced by a doping scandal (see Doping at the Tour de France)...
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  • Doping at the 1998 Tour de France (category 1998 in road cycling)
    this point of time. Three days ahead of the Tour start, the masseur of Team Festina, Willy Voet, was found at the Belgian border to have his car full of...
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    soigneur for the Festina team, was arrested with erythropoietin (EPO), growth hormones, testosterone and amphetamine. Police raided team hotels and found...
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    Bjarne Riis (category Tinkoff (cycling team))
    France in 1996 ahead of the Festina rider Richard Virenque: in Willy Voet's book Breaking the Chain, he mentions that Festina's team doctor would not allow...
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  • services for the ONCE cycling team. During the 1998 Tour de France, he was arrested by French police in connection with the Festina Affair and accused of...
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  • Joventut: 1990–1992 Marbella Joventut: 1992–1993 7up Joventut: 1993–1995 Festina Joventut: 1996–1998 Pinturas Bruguer Badalona: 1998–2000 DKV Joventut:...
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  • Helvetia–La Suisse (UCI team code: HEL) was a Swiss professional cycling team that existed from 1988 to 1992. Gilles Delion won the one-day race Giro...
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