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Geneviève Jeanson (born August 29, 1981) is a former professional bicycle racer from
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, Canada. She won the world junior road and time trial championships in 1999 and the Tour de Snowy in 2000. Later that year she won
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World Cup race. She joined the Canadian Olympic team that year. She acknowledged in a documentary on
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(the French-language
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) on September 20, 2007, that she had been administered EPO more or less continuously since she was 16 years old. After residing in
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and
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(where she studied sociology and psychology), Jeanson came back to
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in 2012 to live with her once estranged parents and complete her college-level education at the Saint-Anne Collégial International. In autumn 2014, she attended
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, in Montreal, where she studied neuroscience. Jeanson currently lives with her common law husband and works in the fitness industry.


2000 Olympic selection

Controversy dogged Jeanson throughout her career. Before the
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in 2000, she was accused of seeking special treatment by wanting an exemption from Olympic selection rules adopted by the
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. She said the procedure considered cumulative results for 1999 and 2000 but that she had raced as a junior in 1999 and could not achieve the results needed for selection. She and the Canadian Cycling Federation agreed that she would qualify for the Olympic selection race if she could finish in the top eight of two of five selected races. This she did by winning the Tour de Snowy and
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. Then, in July 2000, she qualified by finishing ahead of the other candidates in the Canadian Road Cycling Championship.


2000 Olympics

Controversy followed her to the Olympics. Towards the end of the road race, her teammate
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was in a break. Jeanson's detractors maintain that, on instructions from her coach, André Aubut, Jeanson helped chase the break and denied her teammate an opportunity to win a medal. Jeanson's defenders said she had ridden near the front as expected of a teammate trying to break the chase, and moved forward only to close a small gap when the break was almost caught.


2001 Racing

In 2001, she won four of five stages at the
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, winning overall by nearly 10 minutes, an unprecedented margin. Then, at the
Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI Americ ...
in early May, she won four of five stages and the overall victory, this time by an unprecedented 15 minutes. On some stages she broke away early and rode alone the rest of the way. In early June, she won the Montreal World Cup, lapping most of the field and winning by more than seven minutes.


Doping

In late 2003, while with the national team preparing for the world championships in Hamilton, Ontario, Jeanson had a
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level (a measure of red cells in the blood) above the limit and was not allowed to race for two weeks. She missed the championships. Jeanson blamed the finding on an
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used as part of her training. Subsequent doping tests were negative. On 25 July 2005, at the Tour de 'Toona stage race in Pennsylvania, Jeanson had an out-of-competition test. Jeanson said months later that she tested positive for EPO, a banned substance. She denied taking a banned substance but in January 2006 she announced her retirement. On November 28, 2006, the
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said she had accepted a two-year suspension from 25 July 2005, the day her sample was taken. In an interview on Cyclingnews.com on 20 December 2006, Jeanson said that although she could race again from mid-July 2007, she "won't race ever again." She said she had "changed so much this past year that I have a hard time imagining who I was before." She finally admitted to doping to a French CBC journalist. Her coach André Aubut and doctor Maurice Duquette were banned for life by the Canadian Center for Ethics in Sport in 2009.


2014 Movie

'' The Little Queen (La Petite reine)'', a movie inspired by her life, was released in 2014. Jeanson's character is renamed Julie Arseneau (played by
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).


Major results

;1998 :3rd Time Trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships :National Junior Road Championships ::1st Road Race ::1st Time Trial ;1999 : UCI Junior Road World Championships ::1st Road Race ::1st Time Trial :National Junior Road Championships ::1st Road Race ::1st Time Trial ;2000 :1st Overall Tour de Snowy :1st
La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...
:2nd Time Trial, National Road CHampionships ;2001 :1st Overall
Redlands Bicycle Classic The Redlands Bicycle Classic is the longest continuous running invitational, professional cycle sport, cycling stage race in American bike racing, located in Redlands, California, United States. The race began in 1985 after the 1984 Summer Olympic ...
::1st Stages 1, 3, 4 & 6 :1st Overall
Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI Americ ...
::1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 5 :1st Overall
Tour de Toona The International Tour de Toona was a stage bicycle race held in Central Pennsylvania in July from 1987 until 2011. The event became the largest pro-am cycling event in North America and had stages spanning Blair, Cambria, Bedford, and Somerset C ...
::1st Prologue & Stage 4 :1st
Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal The Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal (, or simply Montreal World Cup) was an elite women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually between 1998 and 2009 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada as part of the UCI Women's Road Cyclin ...
:National Road Championships ::2nd Time Trial ::3rd Road Race ;2002 :1st Time Trial, National Road CHampionships :1st Overall
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::1st Stage 5 :1st Prologue
Tour du Grand Montréal The Tour du Grand Montréal was an annual women's road bicycle racing stage-race in Canada, between 2002 and 2009. It was rated by the UCI UCI most commonly refers to: * University of California, Irvine, a public university in Irvine, California, ...
:2nd Overall
Redlands Bicycle Classic The Redlands Bicycle Classic is the longest continuous running invitational, professional cycle sport, cycling stage race in American bike racing, located in Redlands, California, United States. The race began in 1985 after the 1984 Summer Olympic ...
:1st Stage 1 :2nd Overall
Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI Americ ...
::1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 5 :3rd
Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal The Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal (, or simply Montreal World Cup) was an elite women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually between 1998 and 2009 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada as part of the UCI Women's Road Cyclin ...
;2003 :National Road Championships ::1st Road Race ::2nd Time Trial :1st Overall Pomona Valley Stage Race ::1st Stages 1 & 2 :1st Overall
Redlands Bicycle Classic The Redlands Bicycle Classic is the longest continuous running invitational, professional cycle sport, cycling stage race in American bike racing, located in Redlands, California, United States. The race began in 1985 after the 1984 Summer Olympic ...
::1st Stages 2, 3 & 5 :1st Overall
Sea Otter Classic The Sea Otter Classic is a bicycling and outdoor sports festival and exposition held each spring since 1991 at the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. The four-day event is considered the world's largest cycling festival, ...
::1st Stages 1 & 2 :1st Overall
Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI Americ ...
::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3 :1st
Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal The Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal (, or simply Montreal World Cup) was an elite women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually between 1998 and 2009 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada as part of the UCI Women's Road Cyclin ...
:1st Prologue
Tour du Grand Montréal The Tour du Grand Montréal was an annual women's road bicycle racing stage-race in Canada, between 2002 and 2009. It was rated by the UCI UCI most commonly refers to: * University of California, Irvine, a public university in Irvine, California, ...
:2nd Overall
Tour de Toona The International Tour de Toona was a stage bicycle race held in Central Pennsylvania in July from 1987 until 2011. The event became the largest pro-am cycling event in North America and had stages spanning Blair, Cambria, Bedford, and Somerset C ...
::1st Stages 1 & 4 ;2004 :1st
Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal The Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal (, or simply Montreal World Cup) was an elite women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually between 1998 and 2009 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada as part of the UCI Women's Road Cyclin ...
:1st Stage 4
Tour de Toona The International Tour de Toona was a stage bicycle race held in Central Pennsylvania in July from 1987 until 2011. The event became the largest pro-am cycling event in North America and had stages spanning Blair, Cambria, Bedford, and Somerset C ...
:2nd Overall
Redlands Bicycle Classic The Redlands Bicycle Classic is the longest continuous running invitational, professional cycle sport, cycling stage race in American bike racing, located in Redlands, California, United States. The race began in 1985 after the 1984 Summer Olympic ...
::1st Prologue & Stage 1 ;2005 :National Road Championships ::1st Road Race ::2nd Time Trial :1st Overall
Tour de Toona The International Tour de Toona was a stage bicycle race held in Central Pennsylvania in July from 1987 until 2011. The event became the largest pro-am cycling event in North America and had stages spanning Blair, Cambria, Bedford, and Somerset C ...
:1st
Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal The Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal (, or simply Montreal World Cup) was an elite women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually between 1998 and 2009 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada as part of the UCI Women's Road Cyclin ...
:2nd Overall
Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI Americ ...
::1st Stage 1 :3rd Overall Valley of the Sun Stage Race


See also

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List of doping cases in cycling The following is an incomplete list of doping cases and recurring accusations of doping in professional cycling, where doping means "use of physiological substances or abnormal method to obtain an artificial increase of performance." It is neither ...
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List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or ...


References


External links


A fan site in French.
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Interview on Cycling NewsToronto Star article on Jeanson lifetime suspensionLa Presse article on Jeanson's lifetime suspension
(in French)
USADA announces 2-year suspension November 28, 2006
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Cyclingnews article by Matthew Hansen where Jeanson announces she will never return to cycling2017 Interview with Anne-Marije Rook from Ella Cycling - Geneviève describes making peace with her tainted and troubled past
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sbtA2TXvy8 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeanson, Genevieve 1981 births Living people Canadian female cyclists Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Cyclists from Quebec Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Doping cases in cycling Olympic cyclists for Canada People from Saint-Hyacinthe 21st-century Canadian sportswomen 20th-century Canadian sportswomen