Doping at the 1998 Tour de France been using EPO in the 1998 Tour de France. A number, which came on top of the additional 9 out of 9 Festina riders and 2 out of 9 TVM riders, who already had confessed EPO abuse due to their implication in the prior police investigations. Among the riders who were never tested for EPO abuse, the following never-the-less later on confessed also having doped with EPO in preparation/during the 1998 Tour de France: Chris Boardman was the only rider to wear the yellow jersey in 1998 who has not been accused of doping. Of the top ten riders to
Richie Porte the Tour Down Under, the 4th year in a row he was in full command climbing Old Willunga Hill, while also winning Tour de Romandie and finishing 2nd in the Critérium du Dauphiné. He crashed out of the Tour de France at stage 9 while descending the Mont du Chat. For what it's worth, this crash was one of the few in Tour de France history involving a General Classification rider that could be compared to Luis Ocana in the 1971 Tour de France. While Porte was not wearing the Yellow Jersey at the time he survived the first week