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
1998 Tour de France 20 ITT was won by Jan Ullrich with him gaining over two and a half minutes back on Pantani, but Pantani rode well enough to keep the Yellow Jersey and win the Tour de France, in the process completing the Giro-Tour double. American Bobby Julich rounded out the podium becoming just the 2nd American to finish on the podium after Tour Legend Greg Lemond. The 1998 tour was marred by several doping scandals throughout, together known as the Festina affair, starting with the arrest of Willy Voet, a soigneur in the French Festina team. Initially the doping suspicion only surrounded