TVM farm fries

This article deals with the men’s team at Farm-Frites, for the women’s team see Team Farm Frites - Hartol .

TVM-Farm Frites (also TVM , TVM-Van Schilt , TVM-Ragno , TVM-Sanyo, and TVM-Bison Kit ) was a Dutch men's cycling team that existed from 1988 to 1999. After 1999 the main sponsor TVM withdrew and the team continued in 2000 under the name Farm Frites . In 2001, Farm Frites merged with Domo to form Domo-Farm Frites .

The team was managed by Cees Priem , Guido Van Calster and Walter Verlee, among others .

Tour de France 1998

TVM was excluded from the 1998 Tour de France as part of the Festina affair . During the tour it became known that in March of the same year a TVM team car was caught on the French border with EPO ampoules. On July 28, the team's hotel was searched by the police. The drivers were taken to a hospital where blood, urine and hair samples were taken from them. In July 2014, the two TVM drivers Bart Voskamp and Jeroen Blijlevens admitted to Dutch television that, among other things, they had hidden the substances in the truck to smuggle them across the border. Both drivers also stated that TVM team leader Cees Priem did not know anything about it and was wrongly convicted in France at the time. When confronted with these statements, Priem himself was visibly hit, but said "better late than never".

Known drivers

Phil Anderson (1988–1990) Maarten den Bakker (1992–1997) Jeroen Blijlevens (1994-1999) Geert Van Bondt (1998-2000) Johan Capiot (1988-1994, 1997-2000) Mario De Clercq (2000) Bo Hamburger (1991–1997) Sergei Ivanov (1997-2000) Steven de Jongh (1995-1999)

Andreas Klier (1999-2000) Servais Knaven (1993-2000) Dimitri Konyshev (1991–1992) Robbie McEwen (2000) Lars Michaelsen (1997–1998) Peter Van Petegem (1995-2000) Bram Schmitz (1999-2000) Jesper Skibby (1989–1997) Bart Voskamp (1993–1999)

Greatest successes

classic

• Paris Tours
  • 1988 ( Peter Pieters )
  • 1991 (Capiot)
• Gent – ​​Wevelgem
  • 2000 (Van Bondt)
• Omloop Het Volk
  • 1990 (Capiot)
  • 1992 (Capiot)
  • 1997 (Van Petegem)
  • 1998 (Van Petegem)

Round trips

• Tour de France
  • 1996 : 18th stage (Voskamp)
  • 1998 : 4th stage (Blijlevens)
• Giro d'Italia
  • 1989 : 17th stage (Anderson)
  • 1990 : 4th stage (part 2) (Anderson)
• Vuelta a España
  • 1994 : 17th stage (Voskamp)
  • 1997 : 8th stage (Voskamp)
  • 1999 : 10th stage ( Sergei Outschakow )
• Tour de Suisse
  • 1993: 3rd stage ( Tristan Hoffman )
• Tour of Catalonia
  • 1997: 7th stage (Hamburg)
• Tour de Romandie
  • 1989:, 1st stage (Anderson)
• Tirreno-Adriatico
  • 1988: 1st stage (Anderson)
  • 1991: 3rd stage (Konyshev), 7th stage ( Jesper Skibby )
  • 1994: 4th stage (Skibby)
  • 1999: 7th stage (De Jongh)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cyclingnews.com of July 19, 1998: The next day ....
2. ↑ Chronology of 1998 Tour de France drug scandal ( Memento of November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ bvn.tv: Other tijden sport  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 16, 2014