Tour de France 1998

85th Tour de France 1998 - final result
Route length	21 stages, 3,712.1 km
Tour winner	Marco Pantani	92:49:46 h (39,988 km / h)
Second	Jan Ullrich	+ 3:21 min
Third	Bobby Julich	+ 4:08 min
Fourth	Christophe Rinero	+ 9:16 min
fifth	Michael Boogerd	+ 11:26 min
Sixth	Jean-Cyril Robin	+ 14:57 min
seventh	Roland Meier	+ 15:13 min
Eighth	Daniele Nardello	+ 16:07 min
Ninth	Giuseppe Di Grande	+ 17:35 min
Tenth	Axel Merckx	+ 17:39 min
Green jersey	Erik Zabel	327 P.
Second	Stuart O'Grady	230 p.
Third	Tom Steels	221 P.
Dotted jersey	Christophe Rinero	200 p.
Second	Marco Pantani	175 p.
Third	Alberto Elli	165 p.
White jersey	Jan Ullrich	92:53:07 h
Second	Christophe Rinero	+ 5:55 min
Third	Giuseppe di Grande	+ 14:14 min
Team evaluation	Cofidis	267: 16: 10 h
Second	Casino	+ 29:09 min
Third	US Postal	+ 41:40 min

The 85th Tour de France took place from July 11th to August 2nd, 1998 and ran over 21 stages over 3877 km, of which 3712 km were classified. 189 racing drivers took part, of which only 96 were classified after teams were excluded and withdrawn due to a serious doping scandal.

route

The tour started in the Irish capital Dublin and stayed on the island for two more days. In an anti-clockwise direction, after a series of flat stages , it went from Brittany first to the Pyrenees , then to the Alps . In addition to the prologue, two individual time trials were held; as in the previous two years, there was no team time trial . Stage locations outside France were in Switzerland except in Ireland .

Favorites

The Festina affair not only decimated the field of drivers from the outset, but also took some favorites out of the race before the start, such as Alex Zülle or Richard Virusque , who was second in the previous year. Both were part of the Festina team. So only last year's winner Jan Ullrich was considered a serious favorite. Marco Pantani had already won the Giro d'Italia in spring and was third in the 1997 Tour. However, his qualities in the time trial were not considered good enough to be considered a contender for victory.

Race course

After the flat stages, which were mostly made up of the sprinters among themselves (with the exception of a stage win by Jens Heppner ), Ullrich won the first big time trial ahead of Tyler Hamilton and Bobby Julich . Pantani was already more than four minutes behind, Ullrich took the lead in the overall standings. Laurent Desbien Ullrich was able to take off the yellow jersey for two days , which was the reward for a successful escape in which the breakaway group crossed the finish line over seven minutes before the peloton. Ullrich stayed ahead of his direct competitors in the overall standings and took over the yellow jersey again after the first stage in the high mountains of the Pyrenees in Luchon . So everything went according to plan for Ullrich's second tour victory.

The German was able to maintain leadership as far as the Alps. Still in Grenoble he had a lead of 1:11 minutes over Bobby Julich in the overall standings. Marco Pantani was 3:01 minutes behind. On the royal stage to Les Deux Alpes , Ullrich should lose his lead. From wet and cold and a Hunger tormented, he dragged himself behind with a gap of 8:57 minutes behind stage winner Pantani up the finish. Pantani took over the yellow jersey, Ullrich was now fourth, almost six minutes behind. Willing not to give up, he won the subsequent 16th stage to Albertville , but could not shorten the gap to Pantani. The 17th stage did not take place, the drivers went on strike against the bad treatment of their colleagues because of the doping cases. All Spanish teams did not compete anymore.

Ullrich was able to win the time trial on the penultimate stage again; it was enough to move up to second place in the overall standings. Pantani lost 2:35 minutes to Ullrich, but he had a lead of 3:21 in the overall standings, which meant his first Tour win.

Doping scandal

The 1998 Tour de France was overshadowed by a serious doping scandal that went beyond the initial Festina affair . It led to a trial of strength between the doping investigators and the Tour participants, who responded with a strike and sometimes with the withdrawal from the race.

On July 8, the Festina team nurse Willy Voet was arrested in northern France while transporting doping substances, including more than 400 ampoules of EPO . This event only became known shortly after the tour started. On July 14, when Voet was questioned, he admitted that he had acted on instructions from Festina officials, and not for the first time. On July 15, sports director Bruno Roussel and team doctor Eric Ryckaert were arrested and the Festina team hotel searched.

On July 23, the Festina drivers were temporarily arrested and interrogated in Lyon. Seven drivers admitted that they were doping, only Richardirusesque and Pascal Hervé claimed that they may have been doped without their knowledge.

Meanwhile, it became known that in March of the same year a team car from TVM-Farm Frites was caught on the French border with EPO vials. TVM sports director Cees Priem and doctor Andrei Michailov were arrested in Reims . The drivers of the other teams showed their solidarity with their colleagues and went on a first strike on the 12th stage on July 24th by showing up two hours late. After several discussions, all parties agreed to continue the tour. The first 16 kilometers of the stage were driven slowly and under neutralized conditions.

On July 26, syringes and other suspicious substances were discovered near a hotel where crews GAN, Saeco, Casino and Kelme had stayed. On July 28th, the TVM team's hotel was searched by police. The drivers were taken to a hospital where blood, urine and hair samples were taken from them.

At the 17th stage on July 29th there was another strike. He was directed against the treatment of TVM drivers by the police and the doping tests carried out . Before the start or soon after, all drivers removed their start numbers. Numerous drivers, including overall leader Marco Pantani, underscored their protest with a temporary sit-in on the street. Then the race was demonstratively lost and the victory symbolically left to the TVM team. The teams from ONCE, Banesto and Riso Scotti left the tour. The jury decided that the stage would not be counted and that those 116 riders who had crossed the finish line would be allowed to continue the tour.

On July 30th, Kelme and Vitalico withdrew from the tour. On the same day, Rodolfo Massi (Casino) who wore the polka dot jersey and Nicolas Terrados-Cepeda (ONCE), a doctor, were arrested. Corticoids, anabolic steroids and growth hormones were found in Massi's suitcase. He claimed to have carried the drug with him only for personal use, but was viewed as a dealer. At the next stage on July 31, the entire TVM team got out.

On July 24, 2013, the Anti-Doping Commission of the French Senate published the results of a subsequent investigation of doping samples from 1998. EPO was detected in the samples of both the overall winner Marco Pantani and the second Jan Ullrich. Since the investigations are scientific analyzes and no B-samples were available for control, these results have no consequences under sports law.

The stages

Stages	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Yellow jersey
prolog	July 11th	Dublin ( IRL )	5.6 ( EZF )	Chris Boardman	Chris Boardman
1st stage	July 12	Dublin - Dublin	180.5	Tom Steels
2nd stage	July 13th	Enniscorthy (IRL) - Cork (IRL)	205.5	Ján Svorada	Erik Zabel
3rd stage	July 14th	Roscoff - Lorient	169	Jens Heppner	Bo hamburger
4th stage	15th of July	Plouay - Cholet	252	Jeroen Blijlevens	Stuart O'Grady
5th stage	16th of July	Cholet - Châteauroux	228.5	Mario Cipollini
6th stage	17th July	La Châtre - Brive-la-Gaillarde	204.5	Mario Cipollini
7th stage	July 18th	Meyrignac-l'Eglise - Corrèze	58 (EZF)	Jan Ullrich	Jan Ullrich
8th stage	July 19	Brive-la-Gaillarde - Montauban	190.5	Jacky Durand	Laurent Desbiens
9th stage	20th of July	Montauban - Pau	210	Léon van Bon
10th stage	21 July	Pau - Luchon	196.5	Rodolfo Massi	Jan Ullrich
11th stage	22nd of July	Luchon - Plateau de Beille	170	Marco Pantani
Rest day
12th stage	24th July	Tarascon-sur-Ariège - Cap d'Agde	222 (206 rated)	Tom Steels	Jan Ullrich
13th stage	July 25th	Frontignan-la-Peyrade - Carpentras	196	Daniele Nardello
14th stage	July 26th	Valréas - Grenoble	186.5	Stuart O'Grady
15th stage	July 27th	Grenoble - Les Deux Alpes	189	Marco Pantani	Marco Pantani
16th stage	July 28th	Vizille - Albertville	204	Jan Ullrich
17th stage	29th of July	Albertville - Aix-les-Bains	149	Unrated
18th stage	30th July	Aix-les-Bains - Neuchâtel ( CH )	218.5	Tom Steels
19th stage	July 31	La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH) - Autun	242	Magnus Backstedt
20th stage	August 1st	Montceau-les-Mines - Le Creusot	52 (EZF)	Jan Ullrich
21st stage	August 2nd	Melun - Paris	147.5	Tom Steels

→ Main article : List of Tour de France stage locations

Leading the tour

The table shows the leader in the respective classification at the beginning of the respective stage.

stage	Yellow jersey	Green jersey	Dotted jersey	White jersey	Team evaluation
01st stage	Chris Boardman	Chris Boardman	not forgiven	Jan Ullrich	Festina
02nd stage		Tom Steels	Stefano Zanini
03rd stage	Erik Zabel			George Hincapie
04th stage	Bo hamburger	Ján Svorada	Pascal Hervé		Casino
05th stage	Stuart O'Grady
06th stage		Erik Zabel
07th stage				Stuart O'Grady
08th stage	Jan Ullrich		Stefano Zanini	Jan Ullrich	Team Telekom
09th stage	Laurent Desbiens				Cofidis
010th stage			Jens Voigt
11th stage	Jan Ullrich		Rodolfo Massi
12th stage
13th stage
14th stage
15th stage
16th stage	Marco Pantani
17th stage
18th stage			Christophe Rinero
19th stage
20th stage
21st stage
winner	Marco Pantani	Erik Zabel	Christophe Rinero	Jan Ullrich	Cofidis

All teams and drivers

Team Deutsche Telekom

No.	country	Surname	space
1		Jan Ullrich	2
2		Rolf Aldag	43
3		Udo Bölts	21st
4th		Francesco Frattini	93
5		Christian Henn	80
6th		Jens Heppner	56
7th		Bjarne Riis	11
8th		Georg Totschnig	27
9		Erik Zabel	62

Festina

No.	country	Surname	space
11		Richard virusesque	S 7.
12		Laurent Brochard	S 7.
13		Laurent Dufaux	S 7.
14th		Pascal Hervé	S 7.
15th		Armin Meier	S 7.
16		Christophe Moreau	S 7.
17th		Didier Rous	S 7.
18th		Neil Stephens	S 7.
19th		Alex Zülle	S 7.

Mercatone Uno-Bianchi

No.	country	Surname	space
21st		Marco Pantani	1
22nd		Sergio Barbero	A 15.
23		Simone Borgheresi	52
24		Roberto Conti	60
25th		Fabiano Fontanelli	72
26th		Riccardo Forconi	46
27		Dmitri Konyshev	A 10.
28		Massimo Podenzana	37
29		Mario Traversoni	95

Mapei-Bricobi

No.	country	Surname	space
31		Franco Ballerini	A 16.
32		Giuseppe Di Grande	9
33		Bart Leysen	92
34		Daniele Nardello	8th
35		Wilfried Peeters	68
36		Tom Steels	85
37		Ján Svorada	A 16.
38		Andrea Tafi	42
39		Stefano Zanini	73

ONCE-Deutsche Bank

No.	country	Surname	space
41		Laurent Jalabert	A 17.
42		Johan Bruyneel	A 10.
43		Rafael Díaz Justo	A 17.
44		Herminio Díaz Zabala	A 17.
45		Marcelino García	A 17.
46		Francisco Javier Mauleón	A 17.
47		Melchor Mauri	A 17.
48		Luis Pérez Rodríguez	A 17.
49		Roberto Sierra	A 17.

Rabobank

No.	country	Surname	space
51		Michael Boogerd	5
52		Erik Dekker	A 2.
53		Maarten den Bakker	33
54		Patrick Jonker	34
55		Léon van Bon	89
56		Koos Moerenhout	44
57		Robbie McEwen	63
58		Aart Vierhouten	88
59		Beat Zberg	40

Casino ag2r Prévoyance

No.	country	Surname	space
61		Bo hamburger	15th
62		Christophe Agnolutto	31
63		Stéphane Barthe	A 18.
64		Pascal Chanteur	35
65		Jacky Durand	65
66		Alberto Elli	29
67		Jaan Kirsipuu	A 10.
68		Rodolfo Massi	NA 18.
69		Benoît Salmon	28

Banesto

No.	country	Surname	space
71		Abraham Olano	A 11.
72		Marino Alonso	A 17.
73		José Luis Arrieta	A 15.
74		Manuel Beltran	A 17.
75		Vicente García Acosta	A 17.
76		José María Jiménez	A 16.
77		Miguel Ángel Peña	A 17.
78		Orlando Rodrigues	A 17.
79		César Solaun	A 17.

GAN

No.	country	Surname	space
81		Chris Boardman	A 2.
82		Magnus Backstedt	70
83		Frédéric Moncassin	A 10.
84		Stuart O'Grady	54
85		Eros Poli	86
86		Eddy Seigneur	S 15.
87		François Simon	57
88		Cédric Vasseur	24
89		Jens Voigt	83

Lotto Mobistar

No.	country	Surname	space
91		Laurent Madouas	22nd
92		Peter Farazijn	19th
93		Joona Laukka	NA 13.
94		Andrei Tchmil	NA 16.
95		Andrei Teteriouk	20th
96		Kurt Van De Wouwer	16
97		Paul Van Hyfte	64
98		Rik Verbrugghe	69
99		Geert Verheyen	23

TVM farm fries

No.	country	Surname	space
101		Laurent Roux	A 10.
102		Jeroen Blijlevens	A 18.
103		Steven De Jongh	NA 19.
104		Sergei Ivanov	NA 19.
105		Servais Knaven	NA 19.
106		Lars Michaelsen	ZÜ 11.
107		Serguei Outschakov	NA 19.
108		Peter Van Petegem	A 15.
109		Bart Voskamp	NA 19.

Saeco Macchine per Caffé

No.	country	Surname	space
111		Mario Cipollini	A 9.
112		Giuseppe Calcaterra	A 16.
113		Massimo Donati	50
114		Gian Matteo Fagnini	A 10.
115		Paolo Fornaciari	90
116		Eddy Mazzoleni	71
117		Massimiliano Mori	91
118		Leonardo Piepoli	14th
119		Mario Scirea	A 10.

La Française des Jeux

No.	country	Surname	space
121		Eugeni Berzin	25th
122		Franck Bouyer	94
123		Frédéric Guesdon	67
124		Stéphane Heulot	13
125		Xavier Jan	77
126		Emmanuel Magnien	A 10.
127		Christophe Mengin	66
128		Damien Nazon	96
129		Maximilian Sciandri	NA 18.

Cofidis

No.	country	Surname	space
131		Francesco Casagrande	A 10.
132		Laurent Desbiens	61
133		Philippe Gaumont	A 10.
134		Nicolas Jalabert	49
135		Bobby Julich	3
136		Massimiliano Lelli	36
137		Kevin Livingston	17th
138		Roland Meier	7th
139		Christophe Rinero	4th

Team Polti

No.	country	Surname	space
141		Luc Leblanc	NA 18.
142		Rossano Brasi	82
143		Mirco Crepaldi	75
144		Fabrizio Guidi	A 6.
145		Leonardo Guidi	A 15.
146		Jörg Jaksche	18th
147		Silvio Martinello	NA 6.
148		Axel Merckx	10
149		Fabio Sacchi	47

ASICS-CGA

No.	country	Surname	space
151		Carlo-Marino Bianchi	A 10.
152		Alessio Bongioni	A 9.
153		Diego Ferrari	76
154		Oscar Pozzi	32
155		Fabio Roscioli	79
156		Samuelle Schiavina	A 4.
157		Alexandr Shefer	A 10.
158		Filippo Simeoni	55
159		Alain Turicchia	74

Vitalicio Seguros

No.	country	Surname	space
161		Santiago Blanco	NA 18.
162		Francisco Benitez	NA 18.
163		Hernán Buenahora	A 10.
164		Angel Luis Casero	NA 18.
165		Andrea Ferrigato	NA 18.
166		David Garcia Marquina	A 10.
167		Francisco Garcia	A 5.
168		Prudencio Indurain	NA 18.
169		Oliverio Rincon	ZÜ 8.

Kelme-Costa Blanca

No.	country	Surname	space
171		Fernando Escartín	NA18.
172		Francisco Cabello	NA18.
173		Carlos Alberto Contreras	A 10.
174		Jose De Los Angeles	A 15.
175		José Javier Gomez	NA18.
176		Santos González	NA18.
177		José Luis Rodríguez	A 16.
178		Marcos Serrano	NA18.
179		José Angel Vidal	NA18.

US Postal Service

No.	country	Surname	space
181		Jean-Cyril Robin	6th
182		Frankie Andreu	58
183		Dariusz Baranowski	12
184		Pascal Deramé	84
185		Vyacheslav Yekimov	38
186		Tyler Hamilton	51
187		George Hincapie	53
188		Marty Jemison	48
189		Peter Meinert-Nielsen	45

Riso Scotti

No.	country	Surname	space
191		Fabio Baldato	A 15.
192		Vladislav Bobrik	A 11.
193		Ermanno Brignoli	A 17.
194		Roberto Caruso	A 10.
195		Stefano Casagranda	A 10.
196		Federico De Beni	A 4.
197		Nicola Minali	A 17.
198		Roberto Pistore	ZÜ 8.
199		Alessandro Spezialetti	A 17.

Big Mat Auber 93

No.	country	Surname	space
201		Pascal Lino	78
202		Ludovic Auger	NA 2.
203		Philippe Bordenave	30th
204		Thierry Bourguignon	26th
205		Vyacheslav Djavanian	81
206		Thierry Gouvenou	59
207		Lylian Lebreton	41
208		Denis Leproux	39
209		Alexei Sivakov	87

A: abandonment during the stage, NA: not started for the stage, S: suspended / excluded, ZÜ: timeout

See also

• Festina affair

literature

• Andreas Singler, Gerhard Treutlein: Doping - from analysis to prevention: Prevention of deviant behavior in sociological and pedagogical access . Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 2001

Web links

Commons : Tour de France 1998  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tour de France 1998 in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 85ème Tour de France 1998. January 2, 2012, accessed July 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ www.cyclingnews.com presents ... Retrieved July 15, 2017 . 
3. ↑ www.cyclingnews.com presents ... Retrieved July 15, 2017 . 
4. ↑ radsport-news.com of July 25, 2013: UCI criticizes anti-doping report by the French Senate
5. ↑ Tour de France 1998: Ullrich and Zabel are on the EPO list. spiegel.de, July 24, 2013, accessed on July 29, 2016 . 
6. ↑ 85ème Tour de France 1998 - 12ème étape. January 22, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2017 .