On Christmas night
At the age of 60! Ex-professional cyclist Herve dead
Former professional cyclist Pascal Hervé, who was once involved in the Festina affair, is dead. As the French professional cycling association UNCP announced on X, Hervé died on Christmas night at the age of 60. The UNCP did not disclose the cause of death. Hervé himself had announced in September that he had undergone surgery in the middle of the year for a cancerous tumor in his stomach. His stomach had been completely removed.
Hervé's career was overshadowed by the doping scandal involving the Festina racing team at the 1998 Tour de France, in which he was closely involved as a member of the team that was expelled during the Tour. In 2000, Hervé was the last rider of the nine-man team to confess to having taken the blood doping drug Epo.
"It took me two and a half years to admit it. I didn't say it before because I didn't want us to look like the only nine idiots who were caught at the Tour. But now I say, yes, I doped," he explained at the time. Hervé experienced the greatest moment of his career in 1996, when he won a stage at the Giro d'Italia and briefly wore the overall leader's pink jersey. In 1992, he entered his name on the list of Glockner kings at the Tour of Austria.
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