Robert Julich ( ), popularly called Bobby Julich, (born on November 18, 1971, in Corpus Christi,

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) is an American former professional

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who last rode for

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in the

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racing series. He got his international breakthrough when he finished 3rd overall in the

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, becoming only the second American to finish on the podium. He is a strong

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who won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Individual Time Trial, and combined with his high versatility he has won a number of stage races on the international circuits including the 2005 edition of

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. In September 2008, he announced his retirement as a professional cyclist. He served as a technical director for until November 2010, when it was announced that he would move to for the 2011 season as a race coach. On October 25, 2012, Team Sky announced that Julich would part ways with the team due to his admission to doping in the past. This departure is therefore in line with Team Sky's policy (re-asserted in the wake of the USADA Reasoned Decision and subsequent UCI/

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fall-out) of asking all current team personnel to admit to any past doping offences. After leaving Sky Julich worked as a coach for in 2014 before being announced by

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as the team's head coach (

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) for 2015, however in August 2015 he confirmed that he would leave the team at the end of the year.

Biography

Born in Texas, Julich has resided in Glenwood Springs,

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, since childhood, with a brief time in

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, where he met his wife. Most of his living relatives reside in the New York area. Bobby Julich got his start in cycling winning the

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youth bicycle race in 1985. As an amateur cyclist Bobby Julich won the 1990 Junior National Cyclo-Cross Championship, and as a member of the US National Team he participated in the 1991

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. At the time it was the biggest stage race in the United States, and Julich finished 5th overall in a race which included fellow American cyclist and 3-time

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winner

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. Bobby won the award for the Best Young Rider and was heralded as the next LeMond. After a few "false" starts as a professional, he joined the

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team in 1995 alongside

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rider Andrea Peron and fellow Americans

and

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. In the 1996 season, Bobby Julich was diagnosed with ''re-entrant

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'' (RSVT), a heart condition which meant his heart would beat much faster than normal. Julich was treated with

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and was ready for the 1996

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late in the season, a race which showed the first glimpses of his potential in international professional cycling. There, Julich held the

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jersey for ten stages. Despite a strong performance he relinquished the jersey but did finish 9th overall, the highest placing ever by an American in the Vuelta up until Lance Armstrong finished 4th overall in 1998. It was this performance that made other teams in the peloton take notice of Julich. When Motorola ended its sponsorship at the end of the 1996 season he joined the French

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team with a few fellow Motorola teammates, including Lance Armstrong. Armstrong's cancer meant that he was not able to compete with the team, while Julich went on to participate in the

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. He performed well in this Tour, getting stronger as it progressed taking two top 10s in late mountain stages including one where he finished only behind the podium finishers

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and

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. Then in the final ITT he placed 4th to finish the Tour in 17th overall. The embattled

was a breakthrough for Julich, when he took over the team leadership from Italian

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. Following the doping scandal of the 1998 Tour, only 96 of 189 riders completed the race, and Julich finished third on the podium with winner Pantani and runner-up Ullrich. Julich was hailed as the next American Tour de France champion and he was once more proclaimed to follow in the footsteps of Greg LeMond. The

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saw Julich as one of the favorites for the overall win, but a crash during an

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forced him to quit the race, which was in turn won by the recovered Lance Armstrong. For the 2000 season, Julich moved to another French team

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, joining compatriot

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. He was part of the Credit Agricole team that won the

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stage of the 2001 Tour de France. After a move to

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in 2002, Julich rode as a

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in support of his team captain Jan Ullrich. Julich only enjoyed lacklustre results, and at the end of the 2003 season he contemplated retiring.Cathy Mehl
Interview with Bobby Julich
, ''DailyPeloton.com'', February 21, 2006 Despite an offer below his wages at Team Telekom, Bobby Julich moved to the Danish outfit Team CSC in the 2004 season, where he joined up with former Motorola team mate Andrea Peron. He once again rode as a supporting rider in the Tour de France, but with the freedom to pursue his own chances during the rest of the season. Julich immediately saw his riding and performance improve, as he won a time-trial in the April 2004 race

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, his first victory since the 1998 season. With Team CSC team mate

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, a rider Julich rode with in his time at Credit Agricole, he also won the two-man time trial

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. Bobby Julich won a silver medal in the

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men's individual time trial event behind Russian

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. Julich's renaissance continued in 2005 with his best-ever professional season, becoming the first American to win

. He also won the

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and the

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, making Julich the 8th ranked rider in the

, helping Team CSC become the highest ranked team of 2005. For the 2006 season, Julich planned to conserve energy for helping Team CSC captain

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in his winning bid for both the 2006 Giro d'Italia in May and 2006 Tour de France in July. Even though he did not start his season as strongly compared to 2005, he managed to finish 3rd at the

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in February and he won the prologue of Paris–Nice in March, results that even positively surprised Julich himself.Shane Stokes
Bobby's guide to staying strong
''CyclingNews.com'', March 9, 2006 For the very first Giro d'Italia participation in his career, Julich had early aspirations of conquering the pink jersey for the leader of the

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early in the race to lessen the pressure on Basso. However, Julich suffered heavily from

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allergy throughout the race, and he did not play a major role himself, but focused on helping Ivan Basso, as Basso won the 2006 Giro. In the 2006 Tour de France, Julich abandoned the race after he suffered a crash on the stage 7 individual time trial. He went into a turn too fast, slid on small pebbles, and he severely injured his wrist when falling. In May 2011,

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, the winner of the men's time trial at the 2004 Summer Olympics, confessed that he had used doping products, and returned his gold medal. On August 10, 2012, Bobby Julich was upgraded from the bronze to the silver medal. In May 2013, he joined

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as a consultant. In November 2014, it was announced that Julich would join Tinkoff-Saxo as head coach, reuniting with Sean Yates (former sports director of

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) and team founder and manager

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. Julich and Yates left after Riis's firing later in 2015.

Doping

On October 25, 2012, Julich admitted to "using EPO several times from August 1996 until July of 1998". and resigned from the United Kingdom-based Team Sky. The team had issued a statement asking both riders and support staff to sign a document verifying that they did not use or administer performance-enhancing drugs during their careers. Julich stated that he wishes to continue to be involved in the sport to some extent, and also that he will pay the consequences for his poor decisions. Bobby did his self-confession at CyclingNews. His open letter told that during the Tour de France of 1998 his fiancée (now wife) discovered his use from another rider's wife. She told him if it would reoccur, the relationship would be over. His name was also on the list of doping tests published by the

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on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the

and found suspicious for EPO when retested in 2004.

Major results

;1988 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Tour de l'Abitibi The ''Tour de l'Abitibi'' is a junior bicycle stage race taking place in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. The race was first held in 1969 and had only Canadian teams. It has since become an international competition part of ...

;1989 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

: 1st

Overall Trofeo Karlsberg ;1991 : 5th Overall

;1992 : 10th Overall

;1994 : 7th Overall

;1996 : 7th Overall

Escalada a Montjuïc The Escalada a Montjuïc (in Catalan, English: ''Scaling of Montjuïc'', Spanish: ''Escalada a Montjuïc'') was a one-day, two-stage road bicycle racing race held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain since 1965. It was held in the middle of October, as ...

: 9th Overall

: 10th

Japan Cup The is one of the most prestigious horse races in Japan. It is contested on the last Sunday of November, post time of 15:40 at Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchu, Tokyo at a distance of 2400 meters (about miles) run under weight for age conditions with ...

;1997 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Tour de l'Ain Tour de l'Ain, also known as the Prix de l'Amitié, is an annual professional road bicycle racing, cycling stage race held in eastern France. G.P. de l'Amitié The first edition of the race was in 1970, as the G.P. de l'Amitié (Friendship G.P.) ...

::1st Stage 5b ( ITT) :

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::1st Stages 2a & 2b ( ITT) ;1998 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

: 2nd Overall

À travers Lausanne À travers Lausanne was a professional road cycling race held annually in Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian- ...

: 2nd Overall

Tour du Limousin Tour du Limousin is a 4-day road bicycle race held annually in Limousin, France. It was first held in 1968 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle raci ...

: 2nd

Polynormande The Polynormande is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in the region of Normandy, France. Between 1980 and 2002 it was a criterium. Since 2003, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental ...

: 3rd Overall

: 5th

Züri-Metzgete Züri-Metzgete (Zürich German; en, Championship of Zürich; german: Meisterschaft von Zürich) was a European Classic cycle race held annually in Zürich, Switzerland, and continued as a non-professional mass participation event from 2007 unt ...

: 6th

Grand Prix Eddy Merckx Grand Prix Eddy Merckx was a cycle race around Brussels, where Eddy Merckx was born. It was held between 1980 and 2004, disappearing after the creation of the UCI ProTour in 2005. The race was initially an individual time trial An individual tim ...

;1999 : 2nd

Trophée des Grimpeurs The Trophée des Grimpeurs, called Polymultipliée until 1970, was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in the region of Val-d'Oise, France, between Argenteuil and Sannois. Between 1980 and 2002 it was a criterium. Since 2005, t ...

: 5th

Grand Prix Pino Cerami Grand Prix Pino Cerami is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in Hainaut, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Giuseppe 'Pino' Cerami, after whom the race is named, is a former Belg ...

: 10th Overall

;2000 : 2nd Overall

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: 5th EnBW Grand Prix (with

) : 6th Overall

Circuit de la Sarthe The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 Hou ...

;2001 : 1st Stage 5 ( TTT)

: 3rd

Gran Premio di Lugano The Gran Premio di Lugano ( en, Grand Prix of Lugano) is a road bicycle race held annually in Lugano, Switzerland. Prior to 1981 it was held as an individual time trial but in recent years it has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe ...

: 5th

: 9th Overall

;2002 : 7th Breitling Grand Prix (with

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) ;2003 : 3rd LuK Challenge Chrono (with Alexander Vinokourov) : 6th

GP Triberg-Schwarzwald The GP Triberg-Schwarzwald was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in June in Triberg im Schwarzwald, Germany. From 2005 to 2009 it was part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competiti ...

;2004 : 1st LuK Challenge Chrono (with

) : 2nd

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: 2nd

(with

) : 3rd Overall

: 4th Overall

::1st Stage 5b ( ITT) : 4th Overall

: 4th Overall

Tour de Georgia The Tour de Georgia was a U.S. professional road cycling stage race across the state of Georgia. The race began in 2003 and was contested six times until 2008. It was one of the three events in North America ranked as Hors Classe (2.HC) stage rac ...

: 5th Overall

Ronde van Nederland The Tour of the Netherlands ''(Dutch: Ronde van Nederland)'' was a road bicycle racing stage-race in the Netherlands, founded in 1948. It's an annual race since 1975. Because of the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005, it was replaced by the Enec ...

: 8th Overall

;2005 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

: 1st

Overall

::1st Stage 3 ( ITT) : 1st Jersey red

Overall

::1st Stage 7 ( ITT) : 1st LuK Challenge Chrono (with

) : 1st Stage 4 ( TTT)

: 4th Overall

: 5th Overall

: 9th Overall

;2006 : 1st Prologue

: 1st Stage 5 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 1st

Eindhoven Team Time Trial The UCI ProTour Eindhoven Team Time Trial was an annual road bicycle race held in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It was approximately . Each team had six riders. In 2006, team size expanded to eight. Conceived as part of the UCI ProTour in 2005, it was o ...

: 3rd Overall

: 6th LuK Challenge Chrono (with

) ;2007 : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT)

Deutschland Tour The Deutschland Tour (English: ''Tour of Germany'' and sometimes ''Deutschland-Rundfahrt'' in German) is the most important multi-stage road bicycle race in Germany. Initially the race was held in May/June, but from 2005 until 2008 it was moved t ...

: 1st

: 2nd Overall

Sachsen Tour The Sachsen Tour is a multi-stage road bicycle race held in the region of Saxony, Germany. It was first held in 1985 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicyc ...

: 4th Overall

: National Road Championships ::5th

::8th Road race : 7th

Klasika Primavera The Klasika Primavera ( en, Spring classic) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in Amorebieta, Spain. Since 2005, the race is organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road ...

;2008 : 10th Overall

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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Bobby Julich's profile on Cycling Base
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