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
Yellow jersey statistics winner. In 1914, a record of seven former Tour de France winners started that year's Tour: In addition to these seven cyclists, four cyclists in that year's Tour would go on to win a Tour later: Eleven cyclists won the general classification the first time they entered the competition. Five cyclists won the Tour de France the last time they entered the competition: Fausto Coppi is the only cyclist who won the Tour de France in both the first and the last Tour he entered. Yellow jersey statistics Since the first Tour de France in 1903, there have been 2,142