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Andrew Linton
A Welsh Cyclist was reported to have died the Bordeaux to Paris race fter drinking a mixture of cocaine, caffeine and strychnine. It was the first death due to doping in cycling, and although doping was common, it wasn't illegal. -
"The Convicts of the Road"
In 1924, three cyclists gave an interview stating that they took a combination of cocaine, chloroform, aspirin, strychnine and 'horse ointment'. The interview was titled 'The Convicts of the Road' -
Cycling Rule Book
By 1930, doping in cycling was so common that in the rule book published by Henri Desgrange, it told riders that drugs wouldn't be provided by the race organisers. -
Fausto Copppi
Throughout the 1900’s there were a variety of high profile doping cases, including Fausto Coppi, who ingested amphetamines developed during WWII to keep submariners awake and alert, and the Wiel’s-Groene Leeuw affair, where 12 riders during the Tour de France fell ill, claiming to have eaten ‘bad fish’ though none of the hotels served fish. -
Performance Enhancing Drugs became Illegal
The use of PED's in cycling became illegal. -
Drug tesiting at Tour de France
ON the 29th of July, 1966, drug testing began at the Tour de France. -
Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong was accused of doping in the 1999 Tour de France, but never tested positive. He admitted to doping in 2013. -
Floyd Landis
FLoyd Landis tested positive for using PED's in his 2006 Tour de France win, and in 2007 was stripped of his medal and banned from cycling for 2 years.
