Tour de France 1998

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The 85e Tour de France is held of the July 11th with the August 2nd 1998 out of 21 stages for 3.875 km.

General information

  • the departure of the Turn takes place with Dublin (Ireland); the final arrival is judged with the Fields-Élysées.
  • First departure of the Turn in Ireland: the prolog and the first two stages dispute there.
  • the Affaire Feasted bursts during this edition of the involving Turn, inter alia, the exclusion of the Festina team. Team TVM is retained as a police custody. A strike of the runners then involves the cancellation of the stage between Albertville and Aix-the-Baths. The direction of the race, Jean-Marie Leblanc at the head, manages to save this edition of the Turn by rejoining Paris all the same. It is the “scandalous” Turn more since 1929.
  • the victory disputes between the German Jan Ullrich and the Italian Marco Pantani. This last takes ascending decisive on its adversary while being essential with the manner on the Two-Alps. Ulrich gains three stages well over this Lathe, it is insufficient to return on Pantani, first Italian to be taken a lead in the Lathe since 1965.
  • Average of the winner: 39,983 km/h.

Stages

Additional classifications

List runners

NP: non-starter; A: abandonment; HD: out-time; E: eliminated.

External bonds

  • memory of cycling/Turn 1998
  • the dictionary of the Turn/the Tour de France 1998

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