TOUR DE FRANCE 1999-2008

We look back at the Tour de France top ten from 1999 to 2008 and study the impact positive dope tests and doping scandals have had on the credibility of the event.

The 1999 Tour was supposed to be the Tour of Renewal after the disaster of 1998, when the French Festina team was kicked out of the race after a team car was stopped, searched and contained to found a large consignment of illegal drugs.

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1999
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2000
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2001
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2002
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