Michael Rasmussen

See also: Rasmussen

Michael Rasmussen , born on June 1st 1974 with Tølløse (Denmark), is a Racing cyclist Danish.

Biography

Michael Rasmussen measures 1,75 m for 59 kg and is called Kyllingen FRA Tølløse (“Chicken of Tølløse” in Danish) or Chicken Legs (“chicken Legs” in English). He is famous maniac, putting for example too small shoes to save weight. He resides at the Lake Garda in Italy.

He begin with VTT and in 1999 about it becomes world champion. It begins its professional path on road in 2002 in the team cyclist CSC-Tiscali before running for the team cyclist Rabobank in 2003.

Making a career hitherto discrete, except a victory of stage in the Vuelta and two in the Critérium of Dauphine released, it appears at the time of the Tour de France 2005. He is recognized for his qualities of climbing which point out those of another Danish runner: Bjarne Riis .

He thus owes his first feats of arms with the Tour de France 2005 at the time which he gains the 9 {{E}} stage with Mulhouse and gains the shirt with the pea of best climbing the. Whereas a place on the final podium seemed to him promised, it will lose all its chances at the time of the against-the-watch of Saint-Etienne where, after three falls and a poor service (77e), it finishes to 7 ' 47" of Lance Armstrong, victorious of the stage. It finishes in the 7th place with general classification.

In 2006, it again gains the Maillot with pea of the Tour de France as well as the 16 {{E}} stage of mountain alpine, between Borough-with Oisans and Toussuire.

The scandal of the Tour de France 2007

The July 19th 2007, into full Tour de France, the Danish federation of cycling ( Danmarks Cykle Union ) decides to exclude Michael Rasmussen, then carrying the Yellow jersey, the national team. It is reproached to him for not having provided its timetable before the Tour de France, which would not have allowed the international Union cyclist to practice unexpected controls anti doping. Michael Rasmussen will not be able to thus align with the Championnats of the world 2007. It should not be authorized to take part the proof cross-country race VTT of the Olympic Games of Beijing: Niels Nygaard, president of the Danish Olympic committee ( Danmarks Idraets-Forbund , DIF) declared that the federation “was not qualified to decide in the name of the DIF, and that she had not spoken about it as a preliminary with the Committee before her advertisement”.

The July 20th, Internet site VeloNews brings back the remarks of Whitney Richards, former vetetist American amateur. This one affirms to have been charged in March 2002 by Michael Rasmussen to transport blood substitutes manufactured to the the United States dissimulated in a box of shoes of cycling.

The July 21st, Joe Lindsey, writer of the blog Boulder Report writes that Richards had brought back the same history to him two years ago but that this one had not wanted that is reported. Lindsey affirms that the same episode is reported in the epilog of the book of the journalist David Walsh, From Lance to Landis . It in addition brings precise details on the blood substitutes: it would be about Hemopure - blood substitute containing hemoglobin ( hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier ) then only marketed in South Africa - and which, according to Bengt Saltin, Danish expert in the fight against doping, in an interview with the Spiegel in 2004, would have been used in the group as of the Tour de France 1999.

The July 25th, whereas it has just gained the 16 {{E}} stage and that it is the carrier of the yellow jersey, Michael Rasmussen is dismissed by its team Rabobank and is thus eliminated from office of the Tour de France 2007. It is reproached Rasmussen for not having respected the rules of procedure of its team by hiding her timetable of drive of pre-season: it would have been involved in the Dolomites in Italy and not with the Mexico as it previously claimed. It is within this framework that it received the four warnings mentioned above. The gendarmes who had moved to challenge it with the hotel of the Rabobank team, with Pau in the night, could find it because it had left the places.

Michael Rasmussen says himself very affected by this business and associated the services of a lawyer to defend oneself. In a maintenance granted to the daily newspaper Danish Politiken , Michael Rasmussen declares: “I then controlled really the race. And it is not a secrecy which I am furious against the manager of Rabobank, Theo De Rooy. It is with its only initiative that the decision (of the évincer of the competition) was made”. It is also caught some with the French press, of which it denounces “hatred” and, reconsidering its place of drive of before the turn, it affirms: “I was not in Italy, at all. It is the history of a man (the old runner Davide Cassani affirms to have seen it in Italy) which thinks of having recognized me. But there is not the least proof. ”

In September 2007, the laboratory of Châtenay-Malabry reveals that traces of Dynepo were found in the tests of Michael Rasmussen.

Prize list cyclist on road

  • 2005

    • 9 {{E}} stage of the climbing Tour de France
    • Better of the Tour de France

  • 2006

    • 16 {{E}} stage of the climbing Tour de France
    • Better of the Tour de France

  • 2007

    • 8 {{E}} and 16 {{E}} stages of the Tour de France

Prize list VTT

Results on the large lathes

Tour de France

  • 2004 : 14th.
  • 2005 : 7th, victorious of a stage and victorious of the shirt with pea.
  • 2006 : 18th, victorious of a stage and victorious of the shirt with pea.
  • 2007 : dismissed by its team, victorious of two stages, yellow jersey during 9 stages.

Turn of Italy

Turn of Spain

  • 2003 : 7th, victorious of a stage.
  • 2006 : abandonment.

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