Pantani and Ullrich used EPO during 1998 Tour
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July 25, 2013, Thursday
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ITALIAN Marco Pantani and Germany's Jan Ullrich both used the banned blood-booster erythropoetin (EPO) during the 1998 Tour de France, a French parliamentary commission report said yesterday.
Pantani, who died in 2004, won the controversial race, with Ullrich taking second place.
The commission, though, found no hard evidence that American Bobby Julich, who was third, also used EPO, as Le Monde newspaper had reported on Tuesday.
The findings were based on comparisons made of retrospective testing results from 2004 and a list of samples from the 1998 Tour de France and the 1999 race won by disgraced US rider Lance Armstrong.
Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour wins and banned from cycling for life last year for doping in a scandal that plunged cycling into a crisis about substance abuse.
The commission compared the results from the anonymous samples from 2004 to named samples taken from the two Tours under scrutiny.
A trio of French riders - Laurent Jalabert, Jacky Durand and Laurent Desbiens - were also found to have used EPO in the 1998 Tour.
Pantani, who died in 2004, won the controversial race, with Ullrich taking second place.
The commission, though, found no hard evidence that American Bobby Julich, who was third, also used EPO, as Le Monde newspaper had reported on Tuesday.
The findings were based on comparisons made of retrospective testing results from 2004 and a list of samples from the 1998 Tour de France and the 1999 race won by disgraced US rider Lance Armstrong.
Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour wins and banned from cycling for life last year for doping in a scandal that plunged cycling into a crisis about substance abuse.
The commission compared the results from the anonymous samples from 2004 to named samples taken from the two Tours under scrutiny.
A trio of French riders - Laurent Jalabert, Jacky Durand and Laurent Desbiens - were also found to have used EPO in the 1998 Tour.
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