Business Feasted
The Affaire Feasted is a business of doping which touched the professional Cyclisme in 1998.
Facts
This business starts little before the Tour de France 1998, whose departure is given to Dublin in Ireland. Willy Voet (to pronounce " VOUT"), a welfare man of the team Feasted, is made control by the French customs on the level of the Franco-Belgian border, the July 8th 1998. He drove a car placed at the disposal of the team Festina, by the company of the Tour de France.The customs discover in this vehicle of great quantities of doping products: growth hormones, EPO: 500 amounts of doping products and Narcotic S including 235 bulbs of érythropoïétine (EPO), 120 capsules of Amphetamine S, 82 solutions of growth hormones and 60 bottles of Testosterone.
In front of so much from evidence, Willy Voet passes to the consents. He denounces a doping organized and medicalized within this team. The sport director of Feasted, Bruno Roussel, acknowledges to him also the existence of these practices.
The charges of Willy Voet and Bruno Roussel very quickly denounce runners like Richard Virenque, Laurent Brochard and Alex Zülle. Other runners, of this same team, are also implied with the image of Laurent Dufaux, Armin Meier, Christophe Moreau, Pascal Herve and Gilles Bouvard.
Following these revelations, the direction of the Tour de France puts except race the Festina team the July 18th 1998 at Brive and also the team TVM. The Spanish teams with Laurent Jalabert at their head give up the turn while protesting against the methods of the French police force.
Constitution of the team Feasted on the Tour de France 1998
Technical framing
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Bruno Roussel sport director
- Willy Voet welfare man
Runners
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Richard Virenque France
- Laurent Brochard France
- Swiss Laurent Dufaux
- Pascal Herve France
- Swiss Armin Meier
- Christophe Moreau France
- Didier Rous France
- Neil Stephens Australia
- Swiss Alex Zülle
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