{"id":20678,"date":"2013-06-26T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T09:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/retired-tour-de-france-rider-moncoutie-speaks-out\/"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T09:01:45","slug":"retired-tour-de-france-rider-moncoutie-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/retired-tour-de-france-rider-moncoutie-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Tour de France rider Moncouti\u00e9 speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Moncoutie in 2002. Photo: Wikipedia<\/p>\n

Frenchman David Moncouti\u00e9<\/a> has proclaimed that the majority of Tour de France winners<\/a> during the 90\u2032s were using EPO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recognised as a clean rider over his 16-year career, retired Frenchman David Moncouti\u00e9 claims that almost every winner of the Tour de France during the 90\u2032s was probably using performance-enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sentiment echoed by Lance Armstrong<\/a> when he confessed to using drugs throughout his career in January this year.<\/p>\n

The American said that it would not have been possible to win the Tour during his reign without the use of performance enhancers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost every winner of the Tour de France was probably using this substance,\u201d Moncouti\u00e9 told Euronews of the 1990\u2032s.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe some cyclists in the peloton were clean, more so in recent years, but I think the majority of them were cheating.\u201d<\/p>\n

A test for EPO only became available for the Olympic Games in 2000.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, L\u2019Equipe reported that Laurent Jalabert tested positive for EPO from a sample taken at the 1998 Tour de France. \u2013 Cycling News<\/a><\/p>\n

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