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1998 La Flèche Wallonne
The 1998 La Flèche Wallonne was the 62nd edition of La Flèche Wallonne cycle race and was held on 15 April 1998. The race started in Charleroi and finished in Huy. The race was won by Bo Hamburger of the Casino team. General classification References 1998 in road cycling 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ... 1998 in Belgian sport April 1998 sports events in Europe {{La Flèche Wallonne-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Hamburger
Bo Hamburger (born 24 May 1970 in Frederiksberg) is a Denmark, Danish former professional Bicycle road racing, road racing cyclist. He retired in 2006. Biography After ending his career, Hamburger started a building company and a bike shop. He was the leading directeur sportif for in 2013 and 2014. Doping He was fired from Team CSC in 2001, after a positive Erythropoietin, EPO test. He was later cleared legally since the B test was below the limit, but still higher than normal. Since then, the Danish Cycle Union refused to let Hamburger represent Denmark. Hamburger fought the exclusion through legal means. In his book ''Den største pris – en cykelrytters bekendelser'' (''The Greatest Cost – Confession of a Cyclist'') released in Denmark on 7 November 2007, he admitted to using EPO and human growth hormone from 1995 to 1997. His name was also on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Bartoli
Michele Bartoli (born 27 May 1970, in Pisa) is a retired Italian road racing cyclist. Bartoli was a professional cyclist from 1992 until 2004 and was one of the most successful classic cycle races, single-day classics specialists of his generation, especially in the Italian and Belgian races. On his palmarès are three of the five Cycling monument, monuments of cycling—five in total: the 1996 Tour of Flanders, the 1997 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, 1997 and 1998 Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the 2002 and 2003 Giro di Lombardia. He won the UCI Road World Cup in 1997 UCI Road World Cup, 1997 and 1998 UCI Road World Cup, 1998. From 10 October 1998 until 6 June 1999, Bartoli was number one on the UCI Road World Rankings. Considered one of the most versatile riders of his generation, Bartoli won a variety of classics. He won most of the major Italian one-day races—apart from Milan–San Remo—and was Italian National Road Race Championships, Italian national champion in 2000. In B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 In Road Cycling
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolfo Massi
Rodolfo Massi (; born 17 September 1965) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. He won a stage in 1996 Giro d'Italia and 1998 Tour de France, but was expelled from the 1998 Tour de France after illegal doping was found in his hotel room. In the 1990 Tour de France, Massi was the Lanterne rouge. Biography As an amateur, Massi won many races, and when he became a professional cyclist in 1987, much was expected from him. In 1988, he broke a leg, and after the operation, one of his legs was a few centimeters shorter than the other. Massi often complained that he was not able to cycle in a regular way, and became a domestique for many different teams. In 1998, he had his best year. He won the Tour Méditerranéen and the Giro di Calabria. In the Tour de France, he won a mountain stage, and after the 16th stage was in seventh place in the general classification, and leading the mountains classification, when corticoids were found in his hotel room. He was question ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Dufaux
Laurent Dufaux (born 20 May 1969 in Montreux, Switzerland) is a former professional road cyclist from 1991 to 2004. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1991. Despite being a climber, he also won the hilly Züri-Metzgete one-day classic in 2000, outsprinting Jan Ullrich and Francesco Casagrande in a flat three-man group sprint finish. Notable results in the Grand Tours include a 4th place overall finish in both the 1996 and 1999 Tour de France and 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the 1996 and 1997 Vuelta a España, respectively. He also won the 1998 edition of his home region race, the Tour de Romandie, the 1993 and 1994 editions of the Dauphine Libere, and finished in the top 5 of the Tour de Suisse twice. Following the exclusion of his Festina team from the 1998 Tour de France due to doping, Laurent Dufaux admitted to doping (alongside his teammates) with EPO throughout the 1998 season. Together with Festina teammates Alex Zülle, Armin Meier, Didier Rous, Laurent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Petito
Roberto Petito (born 1 February 1971) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. Petito was born in Civitavecchia. His most important win came in 1997, when he won the Tirreno–Adriatico. He has also finished in the top five in classics such as the Tour of Flanders or Paris–Roubaix, as well as the overall in the 2006 edition of the Four Days of Dunkirk. Career achievements Major results ;1992 : 1st Overall Giro delle Regioni ::1st Stage 3 ;1994 : 1st Giro della Romagna : 2nd Gran Piemonte ;1995 : 2nd Overall Tour Méditerranéen : 6th Overall Paris–Nice ;1997 : 1st Overall Tirreno–Adriatico : 1st Overall Giro di Sardegna : 1st Overall Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali : 7th Wincanton Classic : 7th Overall Tour of Galicia : 9th Overall Vuelta Ciclista a la Comunidad Valenciana ;1998 : 5th Trofeo Laigueglia : 8th La Flèche Wallonne : 9th Milan–San Remo ;1999 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Trofeo Melinda ;2000 : 2nd Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Hervé
Pascal Hervé (13 July 1964 – 24 December 2024) was a French road racing cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1992 Summer Olympics and raced as a professional from 1994 to 2001. At the time of his death Pascal resided in Montreal, where he was the co-owner of a training center that helps develop local athletes and amateurs of all ages. In between seasons, he held cycling trips in various locations such as the Pyrénées, the Vosges, the Alps, and, most recently, the region of Charlevoix. Hervé died on 24 December 2024, at the age of 60. The cause of his death is unknown, although he reportedly underwent surgery last September for a stomach tumour. Doping Hervé was expelled from the 1998 Tour de France in the Festina affair. Hervé tested positive for EPO after the prologue in 2001 Giro d'Italia. Major results ;1992 : 1st Boucles de la Mayenne : 2nd Overall Circuito Montañés ;1993 : 2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain : 2nd Overall Tour du Vaucluse ;1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Leblanc
Luc Leblanc (; born 4 August 1966) is a French former professional road cyclist. He became a World Road Champion in 1994. Biography In 1978, a drunk driver hit Luc Leblanc, aged 11, and his younger brother Gilles Leblanc, aged 8. Gilles died after the accident, and Luc was hospitalized for six months. After many operations, Luc was able to walk again, although his left leg was 3 cm shorter and weaker than his right leg. Initially, Leblanc wanted to become a priest, but after a physiotherapist's advice to take up cycling to solve his leg problems, and subsequently Raymond Poulidor's advice to become a professional cyclist, he did not become a priest. At the 1991 Tour de France, in the 12th stage Leblanc joined the decisive attack together with Charly Mottet and Pascal Richard. Mottet won the stage, but they finished 7 minutes ahead of the classification leader LeMond, which meant that Leblanc was the new leader. The next day, Leblanc finished 12 minutes behind the wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maarten Den Bakker
Maarten Jan den Bakker (born 26 January 1969) is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1990 to 2008. He won the Dutch National Road Race Championships twice and he participated in nine Tours de France, completing each of them. In 2008, Den Bakker ended his career. He also competed in the team time trial at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Career achievements Major results ;1989 : 2nd Overall Olympia's Tour ;1990 : 5th Brussels–Ingooigem ;1991 : 5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico ;1993 : 2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg ::1st Stage 4 : 2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal ;1994 : 1st Nationale Sluitingprijs : 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Stage 3 : 2nd Brabantse Pijl : 9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía : 10th Giro di Lombardia ;1995 : 2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie : 2nd Overall Tour of Galicia : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 5th Züri Metzgete : 8th Overall Ronde van Nederland : 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 10th Brabantse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Vandenbroucke (cyclist)
Frank Vandenbroucke (6 November 1974 – 12 October 2009) was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist. After showing promise in track and field in his adolescence, Vandenbroucke took to cycle racing in the late 1980s and developed into one of the great hopes for Belgian cycling in the 1990s, with a string of victories that included Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tour stages and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Omloop Het Volk. This early success dissipated however in a series of drug abuse, drug problems, rows with teams and suicide attempts. Despite repeated attempts to continue his career with a string of different teams from 2000 to 2008, Vandenbroucke's drug use and unpredictability eventually led to his estrangement from the cycling world. Although Vandenbroucke claimed in an interview in 2009 to have recovered his mental health, he died of a pulmonary embolism in October 2009 at the age of 34. Background Frank Vandenbroucke was born in Mouscron and grew up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AG2R La Mondiale
AG2R La Mondiale is a French multinational insurance firm headquartered in Paris that engages in global insurance, financial services, supplementary retirement fund and supplementary pension. With €29 billion in contributions in (2017), AG2R La Mondiale is the biggest provider of supplementary pensions in France, managing one quarter of employees in the private sector, and the second biggest health insurer (excluding banking groups). The firm has 15 million individual customers and more than 500,000 business customers. AG2R La Mondiale (along with Decathlon) is a title sponsor of the AG2R La Mondiale cycling team, and sponsors the Transat AG2R sailing race. History The company is a fusion of two entities. Those are the AG2R Group, a French-based interprofessional insurance and supplementary retirement fund group, created in 1951 and headquartered in Paris, and the La Mondiale Group, which is a French-based international group for supplementary pension and estate planning in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charleroi
Charleroi (, , ; ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is the largest city in both Hainaut and Wallonia. The city is situated in the valley of the Sambre, in the south-west of Belgium, not far from the border with France. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593.Statistics Belgium; ''Population de droit par commune au 1 janvier 2008'' (excel-file) Population of all municipalities in Belgium, as of 1 January 2008. Retrieved on 19 October 2008. The , including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
