Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France seven times in a row, but the results have now been voided Doug Pensinger/Getty
On Saturday, the greatest cycling race in the world, the Tour de France, starts in D眉sseldorf, ending 22 days and 3540 kilometres later on the Champs-脡lys茅es in Paris.
Between 1999 and 2005, the only winner of the Tour was US rider Lance Armstrong. However, in 2012 he received a lifetime ban for doping, for using among other things the blood-boosting agent erythropoietin (EPO). Stripped of his titles, a glittering career ended in disgrace.
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