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RACING RESULTS

  • He got the bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics , 100 km against the clock cycling.

  • He was twice champion of France on track (individual pursuit), in 2000 and 2002.

  • He won the Belgian classic Gand-Wevelgem in 1997.


In 2004 , Philippe Gaumont quit professional cycling. He now runs a Café in Amiens.


DOPING USAGE

  • He began his professional career in 1994 in the Castorama team.

  • In 1996 he joined the GAN team, and was tested positive for Anabolic Steroid s in two races.

  • In 1997 he joined the Cofidis team, in which he stayed until the end of his career.

  • In 1998 he was tested positive twice for the nandrolone drug, but obtained that the case was dismissed.

  • In 1999 , a blood test conducted in the "Docteur Mabuse" justice case showed he was positive for Amphetamine s.

  • In 2004 , he was interrogated by French police and justice in the enquiry for the Cofidis doping case. He declared that the had repeatedly and consistently used doping products, including EPO , since the beginning of his professional career. He then said that he thought that 95% of professional racers doped themselves and expressed very strong doubts that a racer could win a major tour, such as the Tour De France , without doping.


Following from this case, he quit professional racing. He gave a series of interviews, and wrote a book, ''Prisonnier du dopage'' ("Prisoner of doping") in which he explained various things that he witnessed in professional cycling: doping methods, masking methods, and how the need to make money makes racers dope themselves.

He gave details such as how to avoid being tested positive for Corticoid s: how, for instance, to irritate one's testicle sac using salt in order to provoke a rash and obtain a prescription for some corticoid cream. Since urine tests do not distinguish between (legal) corticoid applied as creams, with a prescription, and (illegal) injections, such prescriptions are used to mask doping.


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