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

Stage	Winner	General classification Maillot jaune	Mountains classification Maillot à pois rouges	Points classification Maillot vert	Young rider classification Maillot blanc*	Team classification	Combativity award Prix de combativité
P	Chris Boardman	Chris Boardman	N/A	Chris Boardman	Jan Ullrich	Festina
1	Tom Steels		Stefano Zanini	Tom Steels
2	Ján Svorada	Erik Zabel
3	Jens Heppner	Bo Hamburger	Pascal Hervé	Ján Svorada	George Hincapie
4	Jeroen Blijlevens	Stuart O'Grady			Stuart O'Grady
5	Mario Cipollini			Erik Zabel
6	Mario Cipollini
7	Jan Ullrich	Jan Ullrich	Stefano Zanini		Jan Ullrich
8	Jacky Durand	Laurent Desbiens
9	Léon van Bon		Jens Voigt
10	Rodolfo Massi	Jan Ullrich	Rodolfo Massi
11	Marco Pantani
12	Tom Steels
13	Daniele Nardello
14	Stuart O'Grady
15	Marco Pantani	Marco Pantani
16	Jan Ullrich
17	–		Christophe Rinero				–
18	Tom Steels
19	Magnus Bäckstedt
20	Jan Ullrich
21	Tom Steels
Final		Marco Pantani	Christophe Rinero	Erik Zabel	Jan Ullrich		Jacky Durand

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			92h 49' 46"
2			3' 21"
3			4' 08"
4			9' 16"
5			11' 26"
6			14' 57"
7			15' 13"
8			16' 07"
9			17' 35"
10			17' 39"

Teams

Team
Asics-CGA
Riso Scotti-MG Maglificio
Big.Mat-Auber 93

See also

• List of doping cases in cycling

References

External links

• 1998 Tour de France results