Jonathan Vaughters

Jonathan Vaughters (2011)

Jonathan Vaughters (born June 10, 1973 in Denver ) is an American former cyclist , team manager of a cycling team and cycling official. Vaughters was considered a good mountain climber , specialist in stage races and helper who also achieved his own success. He confessed to the abuse of doping during his active time as a professional cyclist. As a team leader and cycling official, he represents a strict anti-doping policy in public.

Professional cyclist

Vaughters began his professional career in 1994 with the Spanish team Porcelena Santa Clara . In 1997 he drove for the US Comptel-Colorado Cyclist team . He moved to the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team in 1998 , where he supported Lance Armstrong in his first Tour de France victory. In the years 2000–2002 he rode for the French Crédit Agricole Team and for a short time in 2003 with the Prime Alliance Cycling Team , where he ended his career as a professional cyclist.

He celebrated his greatest successes as a professional at the French stage race Dauphiné Libéré , which he finished in 1999 in second place overall and where he won the mountain finish on Mont Ventoux in 1999 and 2001 . In 1997 he also won the national championship title in the individual time trial . In addition, there were several victories in races in his US homeland and the overall victory in the French stage race Route du Sud in 1999.

Vaughters caused a sensation when he had to give up the 2001 Tour de France after an insect bite because the anti-doping regulations did not allow him to treat his swollen eye with cortisone .

Team manager

After his racing career, Jonathan Vaughters became CEO of Slipstream Sports in 2003 , which has been running cycling teams since 2005, and is the team manager of the UCI WorldTeam Cannondale-Garmin . In addition to the ProTeam, Slipstream Sports also operated the Chipotle First Solar Development Team as a " farm team " with the status of UCI Continental Team until the end of 2012 . In 2011 belonged to the company, a UCI Women's Teams , the " Garmin-Cervélo " said.

In 2009, Jonathan Vaughters was elected President of the Association Internationale des Groupes Cyclistes Professionnels (AIGCP) team operators . Since he wanted to concentrate more on his team and the acquisition of a Master of Business Administration at the University of Denver , he no longer ran for the upcoming re-election in March 2013 and was replaced by Luuc Eisenga in this position.

doping

In an August 11, 2012 column for the New York Times , Vaughters admitted doping while he was a professional cyclist . In the 1990s and early 2000s, doping regulations were so easy to circumvent that, like other riders of this era, he only had the choice of either giving up or cheating on the dream of being a successful professional cyclist. Such a choice should not be left to the athlete. The only way to avoid this is to make every effort to enforce the anti-doping rules. Vaughters did not limit the time he doped in the article; However, he expressed previously on Twitter that the Credit Agricole team, where he drove from 2000 to 2002, "clean" was and gave it less pressure than before when Armstrong -Mannschaft US Postal Service .

His team is a member of the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible and has thus committed itself to rules on the use of medicines that are stricter than the rules of the World Candidate Doping Agency and the World Cycling Federation .

The driver Tom Danielson tested positive for synthetic testosterone in the A-sample on July 9, 2015 . It was the first positive doping test from a Slipstream driver since the team was founded.