1998 Tour de France

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Race details
Dates		July 11–August 2, 1998
Stages		21+Prologue
Distance		3,877 km (2,409 mi)
Winning time		92h 49' 46"[1] (41.765 km/h/25.952 mph)
Palmarès
	Winner	Marco Pantani	(Mercatone Uno)
	Second	Jan Ullrich	(Team Telekom)
	Third	Bobby Julich	(Cofidis)
	Points	Erik Zabel	(Team Telekom)
	Mountains	Christophe Rinero	(Cofidis)
	Youth	Jan Ullrich	(Team Telekom)
	Team	Cofidis

The 1998 Tour de France, also called the Tour de Dopage (Tour of Doping), was marred by doping scandals throughout known as the Festina affair, starting with the arrest of Willy Voet, a soigneur in the French Festina team. Voet was traveling into France when he was arrested and found with large quantities of doping products. As a result, repeated police raids found drugs in the rooms of the TVM team, and the riders staged a sit-down protest during stage 17 as a reaction to the treatment. Tour directors later nullified the results of the stage. The Spanish teams pulled out of the race at the urging of the ONCE-Eroski team, led by Laurent Jalabert, the French National Champion.

This 1998 edition of Tour de France was won by Marco Pantani, with podium placing of Jan Ullrich, the defending champion, and American Bobby Julich. Erik Zabel won his third consecutive green jersey in the points classification. Christophe Rinero claimed the polka dot jersey as the winner of the mountains classification.

Teams and riders

189 riders in 21 teams commenced the 1998 Tour de France, only 96 riders finished.

• List of teams and cyclists in the 1998 Tour de France

Stages

Stage	Route	Distance	Type	Date
P	Dublin	5.6 km	Individual time trial	Saturday, July 11
1	Dublin – Dublin	180.5 km		Sunday, July 12
2	Enniscorthy – Cork	205.5 km		Monday, July 13
3	Roscoff – Lorient	169 km		Tuesday, July 14
4	Plouay – Cholet	252 km		Wednesday, July 15
5	Cholet – Châteauroux	228.5 km		Thursday, July 16
6	La Châtre – Brive-la-Gaillarde	204.5 km		Friday, July 17
7	Merygnac l'Église – Corrèze	58 km	Individual time trial	Saturday, July 18
8	Brive-la-Gaillarde – Montauban	190.5 km		Sunday, July 19
9	Montauban – Pau	210 km		Monday, July 20
10	Pau – Luchon	196.5 km	Mountain stage	Tuesday, July 21
11	Luchon – Plateau-de-Beille	170 km	Mountain stage	Wednesday, July 22
Rest day				Thursday, July 23
12	Tarascon-sur-Ariège – Le Cap d'Agde	222 km		Friday, July 24
13	Frontignan la Peyrade – Carpentras	196 km		Saturday, July 25
14	Valréas – Grenoble	186.5 km		Sunday, July 26
15	Grenoble – Les Deux Alpes	189 km	Mountain stage	Monday, July 27
16	Vizille – Albertville	204 km	Mountain stage	Tuesday, July 28
17	Albertville – Aix-les-Bains	149 km	Mountain stage	Wednesday, July 29
18	Aix-les-Bains – Neuchâtel	218.5 km		Thursday, July 30
19	La Chaux-de-Fonds – Autun	242 km		Friday, July 31
20	Montceau-les-Mines – Le Creusot	52 km	Individual time trial	Saturday, August 1
21	Melun – Paris-Champs-Élysées	147.5 km		Sunday, August 2

Jersey progress

Jersey wearers when one rider is leading two or more competitions

• In stage 1, Abraham Olano wore the green jersey.

Other notes

• The white jersey wasn't actually awarded between 1989 and 1999 - the white column in this table represents the leader in the youth classification.

Final standings

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Marco Pantani (ITA)	Mercatone Uno – Bianchi	92h 49' 46"
2	Jan Ullrich (GER)	Team Telekom	3' 21"
3	Bobby Julich (USA)	Cofidis	4' 08"
4	Christophe Rinero (FRA)	Cofidis	9' 16"
5	Michael Boogerd (NED)	Rabobank	11' 26"
6	Jean-Cyril Robin (FRA)	US Postal	14' 57"
7	Roland Meier (SUI)	Cofidis	15' 13"
8	Daniele Nardello (ITA)	Mapei–Bricobi	16' 07"
9	Giuseppe Di Grande (ITA)	Mapei–Bricobi	17' 35"
10	Axel Merckx (BEL)	Team Polti	17' 39"

Teams

See also

• List of doping cases in cycling

References

External links

• 1998 Tour de France results