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Laurent Jalabert

Laurent Jalabert is a French former professional road racing cyclist, from 1989 to 2002. Despite neither denying nor admitting using EPO in his notorious cycling teams throughout the 1990s, French Senate investigation proved his EPO use in 2013.

Rafał Majka

Rafał Majka is a Polish former professional road bicycle racer, who most recently rode for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates XRG. He is known as a strong climber, and rose to prominence at the 2013 Giro d'Italia, where he finished 7th overall, and 6th one year later; he has taken fifteen victories during his professional career.

Julian Alaphilippe

Julian Alaphilippe is a French professional road cyclist, former cyclo-cross racer and two-time UCI World Road Champion, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Tudor Pro Cycling Team. He is the brother of racing cyclist Bryan Alaphilippe.

Lucien Van Impe

Lucien Van Impe is a former Belgian cyclist, who competed professionally between 1969 and 1987. He excelled mainly as a climber in multiple-day races such as the Tour de France. He was the winner of the 1976 Tour de France, and six times winner of the mountains classification in the Tour de France.

Warren Barguil

Warren Barguil is a French cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Picnic–PostNL. He is best known for winning two mountain stages and the mountains classification of the 2017 Tour de France.

Claudio Chiappucci

Claudio Chiappucci is a retired Italian professional cyclist. He was on the podium three times in the Tour de France general classification: second in 1990, third in 1991 and second again in 1992.

Gert-Jan Theunisse

Gert-Jan Theunisse is a Dutch former road bicycle racer. He won the 1988 edition of the Clásica San Sebastián one-day race. In the 1989 Tour de France, he won the King of the Mountains classification.

Richard Virenque

Richard Virenque is a retired French professional road racing cyclist. He was one of the most popular French riders with fans, known for his boyish personality and his long, lone attacks. He was a climber, best remembered for winning the King of the Mountains competition of the Tour de France a record seven times, and as one of the central figures in a widespread doping scandal in 1998, the Festina Affair.

Thibaut Pinot

Thibaut Pinot is a French former professional road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2023, spending his entire career with Française des Jeux. Once considered one of the most promising talents in French cycling, he finished third overall in the 2014 Tour de France and first in the young rider classification. He has won stages in all three Grand Tours, with 3 in the Tour de France, 1 in the Giro d'Italia and 2 in the Vuelta a España. Pinot has taken more than thirty professional victories, including the Giro di Lombardia in 2018, and he won the mountains classification at the 2023 Giro d'Italia.

Andrew Hampsten

Andrew Hampsten is an American former professional road bicycle racer who won the 1988 Giro d'Italia and the Alpe d'Huez stage of the 1992 Tour de France. Between 1986–1994 he finished in the Top 10 of eight Grand Tours.

Nairo Quintana

Nairo Alexánder Quintana Rojas, ODB, is a Colombian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.

Anthony Charteau

Anthony Charteau is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2001 and 2013. His biggest career victory was winning the Mountains classification in the Tour de France in the 2010 edition, which was his major breakthrough. He also won the Tropicale Amissa Bongo stage race in Gabon for three years in a row from 2010 to 2012.

Steven Rooks

Steven Rooks is a former Dutch professional road racing cyclist known for his climbing ability. His professional career ran from 1982–1995.

Romain Bardet

Romain Bardet is a French former professional racing cyclist. Bardet is known for his climbing and descending abilities, which make him one of the top general classification contenders in Grand Tours. After retiring from the road in the wake of the 2025 Critérium du Dauphiné he turned to professional gravel racing.

Mikel Landa

Mikel Landa Meana is a Spanish Basque professional road cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step. His career breakthrough came at the 2015 Giro d'Italia where he won two stages and finished third overall.

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