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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


Come on Benjo ; )

As I know my fellow citizen nor some Bourgogne, Ricard, Cognac doping case
?

???

Benjo