Tour de France 1996 Stage 7 Les Arcs EPO

Tour de France 1996 Stage 7 Chambery -- Les Arcs 202km

SBS TV Australia broadcast of UK Channel 4 coverage. Introduced by Michael Tomalaris. Commentary by Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen, with reporting from Gary Imlach.

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• tour de france
• cycling
• cyclisme
• ciclismo
• wielrennen
• Bjarne Riis
• Jan Ullrich
• Laurent Dufaux
• Peter Luttenberger
• Miguel Indurain
• Toni Rominger
• Neil Stephens
• col de la madeleine
• cormet de roseland
• richard virenque
• chris boardman
• laurent jalabert
• alex zulle
• valentino fois
• luc leblanc
• abraham olano
• eugeni berzin
• udo bolts
• stephane heulot
• gian matteo fagnini
• mario cipollini
• lance armstrong
• patrick jonker

[kenny230862]

I wonder why you call some of the stages for EPO and others not, truth is they were all doped, Telecom, Once, Festina, Mapei and TVM etc. were all involved in major EPO scandals, all through the 90s. The best man won among equals.

[chickasmith]

@kenny230862 Thanks for your comment. As much as we can believe this era of cycling was all doped, it is still only alleged and not proven for all riders. The titles where I have "EPO" in them are basically for the riders winning who have admitted doping in their career (Riis, Virenque and Festina etc). For other riders, it may be implied or strongly believed that they have doped in their career but yet to be proven, and as such, I wont mention they are doped.

[Avanz91]

indurain used epo just like the others !... that year simply didn t go as i used to . just look at the climb of hautacam in 1994 . it is plain that miguel'pedal strake was totally different from that of the same climb in 1996 .

[kenny230862]

@chickasmith Yeah well, truth is, its not that hard to cover up the use of era if you know what you are doing, like Armstrong and Co, in my book all top 20 riders in any GT was into epo and other enhancing drugs, that some didnt get detected wasnt bad luck, just good guidance from the exsperts. If you wanted to make any results in especially the 90s but also before and later, you had to take enhancing drugs, in my mind there is no doubt about it.

[azx50128]

I primi 10 erano tutti dopati, quindi il vincitore del Tour 96 è stato Indurain.

[azx50128]

I Tour vinti da Indurain sono stati 6, e non 5: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 e 1996.

[azx50128]

Che furto, il vero vincitore di quel Tour è stato colui che è arrivato 11°, cioè Indurain.