Answer the following question: What key details about tom steels can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: tom steels -lrb- born 2 september 1971 , sint-gillis-waas -rrb- is a former belgian professional road bicycle racer , specialising in sprint finishes and one-day races . he was one of the top sprinters in the peloton . steels competed at the 1992 summer olympics in barcelona , in the men 's 1000 metres time trial , finishing 19th steels began his professional cycling career in 1994 with the vlaanderen 2002 team , winning eight times in his first two seasons . his breakthrough was after he signed with mapei in 1996 . that year he won omloop het volk , and gent -- wevelgem . in 1997 , he rode in his first tour de france , and looked capable of a stage win after coming second on stage 2 . however , during the sprint for the finish for the sixth stage he found himself blocked and boxed in by other sprinters and in frustration threw his water bottle at another rider , for which he was thrown out of that year 's tour . as a result he earned the nickname '' tom bidon '' . his best season was 1998 when he won the national championship for the second time and returned to the tour de france to win four stages . the point jersey would also have been his , as the people in front of him all admitted to doping . he was also national champion in 2002 and 2004 and won five more stages in the tour . 2006 was his first year as a professional that he failed to win a race . steels retired from racing at the end of the 2008 season , during which he raced for landbouwkrediet - tonissteiner . in october 2010 it was announced that he would work as a coach for quick step , a protour team , during 2011 . he is the uncle of fellow racing cyclist stijn steels .
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- role is rider -lrb- retired -rrb-- proteam is vlaanderen 2002 mapei landbouwkrediet-colnago davitamon-lotto landbouwkrediet-tonissteiner- updated is 2008-01-02- majorwins is tour race champion -lrb- 1997 , 1998 , 2002 , 2004 de -rrb- france , 9 stages belgian national road- proyears is 1994 2005 -- 2007 2008 -- 1995 1996 -- 2002 2003 -- 2004- nickname is tom bidon- birth date is 2 september 1971- fullname is tom steels- name is tom steels- currentteam is retired- image is tom steels.jpg- discipline is road