"jc" wrote in message
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benjo maso wrote:
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benjo maso wrote:


Perhaps 1904, when the Union Vélocipédique de France decided after four
month of deliberation to disqualify the first four?

Benjo

Now, it's hardly fair to post a teaser like that. ;-)

Will you tell the story? Please?



Of course, in the first years there was hardly a serious supervision of
the riders and most of them were immediately accused of fraud. They
should covered many miles with the assistance of friendly car drivers,
who motorpaced them, allowed them to have been used cars, to motorpace
the, to allow them to clung to them or even to hide , which transported
them used cars which pulled or motorpaced them, or even allowed them to
hide in the cars. The should have taken short cuts, changed numbers with
friendly riders to dodge checkpoints, etc., etc. In short: they had done
about everthing - legal or not legal - to win. Tour director Desgranges
knew quite well what was going on, but tried to hide it as much as
possible. Unfortunately the UVF was incensed and investigated it as
thouroughly as possible. The results was that the four main culprits were
disqualified and suspended for several years (one of them even for life)
with the result that the unknown, only 19 year old Henri Cornet was
declared winner.

Benjo

Thanks! :-)

If I could ask one more question?

Are there any other cases in which the winner of the Tour was disqualified
afterwards?

No, never.

Benjo