Doping at the Tour de France

Table columns:
Years
Name
Status
Details

Table rows:
cells: 2014
Vincenzo Nibali
Never tested positive
cells: 2013 2015 2016 2017
Chris Froome
Never tested positive
cells: 2012
Bradley Wiggins
Never tested positive
cells: 2011
Cadel Evans
Never tested positive
cells: 2010
Andy Schleck
Never tested positive
Named as winner after Contador disqualified.[68]
cells: 2007 2009 2010
Alberto Contador
Tested positive Banned for two years
Named in Operación Puerto doping case, but later declared clean. Tested positive during 2010 Tour de France for the banned stimulant clenbuterol. Suspended for two years.
cells: 2008
Carlos Sastre
Never tested positive
cells: 2006
Óscar Pereiro
Never tested positive
Named as winner after Landis disqualified. Took salbutamol in 2006, but had a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) for the substance as part of asthma treatment.[69]
cells: Floyd Landis
Tested positive Banned for two years
Tested positive for high testosterone to epitestosterone ratio;[49]
cells: 1999–2005
No winner after Armstrong disqualified. Six of the seven overall runners-up to Armstrong (all except Joseba Beloki in 2002) have either admitted to or been found guilty of doping.[70]
No winner after Armstrong disqualified. Six of the seven overall runners-up to Armstrong (all except Joseba Beloki in 2002) have either admitted to or been found guilty of doping.[70]
No winner after Armstrong disqualified. Six of the seven overall runners-up to Armstrong (all except Joseba Beloki in 2002) have either admitted to or been found guilty of doping.[70]
cells: Lance Armstrong
Banned for life. Retroactively stripped of all titles since August 1998. Confessed doping use
Tested positive for glucocorticosteroid hormone without prescription given in advance.[71] Associated with Michele Ferrari, who is suspected of prescribing doping agents.[72] Allegations by former assistant for Androstenine use.[73] Alleged EPO use in 1999 Tour de France.[74] According to court testimony by former teammate, Frankie Andreu, Armstrong admitted to doping to his doctor when in hospital for cancer treatment.[75] Floyd Landis accused Armstrong of doping in 2002 and 2003, and claimed that U.S. Postal team director Johan Bruyneel had bribed former UCI president Hein Verbruggen to keep quiet about a positive Armstrong test in 2002.[76][77][78] Landis also maintains that he witnessed Armstrong receiving multiple blood transfusions, and dispensing testosterone patches to his teammates on the United States Postal Service Team.[79] Former teammate Tyler Hamilton accused Armstrong of doping with testimony to a federal grand jury during an investigation of Armstrong.[80] Hamilton implicated that Armstrong had used EPO on the TV news show 60 Minutes.[81] Implicated in a massive doping scheme by findings by USADA in 2012. Consequently, banned for life and stripped of all career titles since August 1998.[42] Admitted to doping at all seven of his victorious Tours in a 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey.[82]
cells: 1998
Marco Pantani
Never tested positive Banned for six months
Failed a blood test in 1999 Giro d'Italia. Insulin found in his hotel room in the 2001 Giro d'Italia, but later declared clean "for not having committed any infraction." Nonetheless, the UCI confirmed the suspension.[83][84][85]
cells: 1997
Jan Ullrich
Tested positive Banned from the 2006 Tour Retroactively stripped of titles 2005–2007. Confessed doping use
Tested positive for amphetamines (off season, not taken for athletic performance gain)[86] Involved in the Operacion Puerto case. DNA subsequently linked to blood bag discovered during Puerto investigation[87] Admitted to doping in a 2013 interview with the German magazine Focus.[88]
cells: 1996
Bjarne Riis
Never tested positive Confessed doping use
Confessed having used EPO in 1996[89]
cells: 1991–1995
Miguel Indurain
Never tested positive
Tested positive for salbutamol in 1994, however both the IOC and UCI allowed Indurain, and asthma sufferers to use Salbutomol at the time.[90]
cells: 1986 1989–1990
Greg LeMond
Never tested positive
cells: 1988
Pedro Delgado
Never tested positive
Tested positive for probenecid, a masking agent for anabolic steroids in the 1988 Tour de France but, although banned by the IOC, it was not on the UCI list of banned substances at the time.[91]
cells: 1987
Stephen Roche
Never tested positive
Accused of taking EPO in 1993 as part of an investigation in Italy into the practices of Francesco Conconi[92]
cells: 1978–1979 1981–1982 1985
Bernard Hinault
Never tested positive
cells: 1983–1984
Laurent Fignon
Tested positive
In 1989 Fignon tested positive after a team time trial[93][94][95] tested positive for amphetamines at the Grand Prix de la Liberation in Eindhoven on 17 September 1989.[96][97]
cells: 1980
Joop Zoetemelk
Tested positive
Tested positive in the 1977 (pemoline[98]), 1979 (steroids[99]) and 1983 Tour de France (nandrolon, although that was retracted later[98]). Admitted a blood transfusion on TV interviews right after winning the 10th (and 9th) stage of the 1976 Tour de France, as in that era it was seen as just medical aid.
cells: 1975 1977
Bernard Thévenet
Never tested positive Confessed doping use
Admitted using steroids in the 1975 and 1977 Tour[30][100]
cells: 1976
Lucien Van Impe
Never tested positive
cells: 1969–1972 1974
Eddy Merckx
Tested positive
Merckx has tested positive three times, but never at the Tour de France. He was expelled from the 1969 Giro d'Italia after testing positive for Reactivan.[101] He tested positive for Mucantil after winning the 1973 Giro di Lombardia. The drug was later taken off the banned list.[101] In the 1977 Flèche Wallonne, Merckx tested positive for Stimul (pemoline), along with Freddy Maertens and Michel Pollentier .[102]
cells: 1973
Luis Ocaña
Tested positive
Tested positive in the 1977 Tour de France (pemoline) 18th stage.
cells: 1968
Jan Janssen
Never tested positive
cells: 1967
Roger Pingeon
Never tested positive
cells: 1966
Lucien Aimar
Tested positive Banned for one month
Missed the 1969 Vuelta a España due to a one-month doping ban.
cells: 1965
Felice Gimondi
Tested positive
Tested positive in the 1968 Giro and 1975 Tour.
cells: 1957 1961–1964
Jacques Anquetil
Confessed doping use
Debated with French government minister on television, saying "Leave me in peace; everybody takes dope." After winning Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1966, was temporarily disqualified after refusing a drug test, saying he had already been to the toilet. He was later reinstated after he engaged a lawyer as the case was never heard.

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originalText: list of tour de france winners stripped of title
answer: answerTexts: Lance Armstrong
Jan Ullrich