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Marco Pantani 's edition The 1998 Grand Boucle was the 85th edition of the race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 3,875 km (2,408 mi) race was composed of 21 stages and a prologue. It started on 11 July in Ireland before taking an anti-clockwise route through France to finish in Paris on 2 August. Marco Pantani of Mercatone Uno-Bianchi won the overall general classification, with Team Telekom's Jan Ullrich, the defending champion, and Cofidis rider Bobby Julich finishing on the podium in second and third respectively.
The general classification leader's yellow jersey was first awarded to Chris Boardman of the GAN team, who won the prologue in Dublin. Following a crash by Boardman on stage 2 that caused his withdrawal, Ullrich's sprinter teammate Erik Zabel took the race lead. He lost it the next stage to Casino-Ag2r's Bo Hamburger, who took it after being in a breakaway. The day after, the yellow jersey switched to another rider from the same breakaway, Boardman's teammate Stuart O'Grady, who took vital seconds from time bonuses gained in intermediate sprints. He held it for a further three stages, until pre-race favourite Ullrich won stage 7's individual time trial, moving him into the overall lead. The next day, Laurent Desbiens of Cofidis finished in a breakaway with a large enough margin to put him in the yellow jersey. Ullrich regained the race lead two stages later as the Tour went into the Pyrenees. Following his poor showing in the opening week, Pantani placed second and first, respectively, on the two Pyreneean stages. He then won stage 15, the first in the Alps, to replace Ullrich in the yellow jersey, and kept it until the race's conclusion.
Zabel won his third consecutive points classification and Julich's teammate Christophe Rinero, fourth overall, was the winner of the mountains classification. Ullrich was the best young rider and the most combative was Casino-Ag2r's Jacky Durand. The team classification was won by Cofidis. Tom Steels of Mapei-Bricobi won the most stages, with four.
The race was marred throughout by a doping scandal, known as the Festina affair. Before the race began, Willy Voet, an assistant of the Festina team, was arrested at the Franco-Belgian border when doping products were found in his car. The affair broadened and the team was expelled after top personnel admitted to widespread doping. Police raids on numerous teams during the course of the race led to two riders' strikes and the withdrawal of several teams and riders. Due to the controversy, the race became known by the nickname "Race de Farce". In July 2013, retrospective tests for recombinant EPO made in 2004 were made public, revealing that 44 out of 60 samples returned positive tests.
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0:00:00-0:02:23 Intro
0:02:23-0:04:50 How FAT Doped Jan Ullrich arrived to Dublin
0:04:50-0:07:39 How DANGEROUS Doped Festina arrived to Dublin
0:07:39-0:09:48 How MEGA Doped Marco Pantani arrived to Dublin
0:09:48-0:13:36 How Spanish/French DOPED teams arrived to Dublin
0:13:36-0:16:09 Festina Affair begins with Willy Voet arrested
0:16:09-0:20:06 Prologue Chris Boardman
0:20:06-0:22:13 Stage 1 Tom Steels / Chris Boardman
0:22:13-0:25:31 Stage 2 Jan Svorada / Erik Zabel
0:25:31-0:28:07 Stage 3 Jens Heppner / Bo Hamburger
0:28:07-0:31:00 Stage 4 Jeroen Blijlevens / Stuart O’Grady / Festina Affair
0:31:00-0:32:50 Stage 5 Mario Cipollini / Stuart O'Grady
0:32:50-0:39:30 Stage 6 Mario Cipollini / Festina Team Expulsion
0:39:30-0:46:03 Stage 7 Jan Ullrich ITT Correze / Tugboat show
0:46:03-0:49:27 Stage 8 Jacky Durand / Laurent Desbiens
0:49:27-0:51:48 Stage 9 Leon Van Bon / Laurent Desbiens
0:51:48-1:07:05 Stage 10 Rodolfo Massi DOPED Aubisque Show
1:07:05-1:22:37 Stage 11 Marco Pantani Plateau de Beille / TVM Affair
1:22:37-1:28:13 Stage 12 Tarascon Strike / Tom Steels
1:28:13-1:33:54 Stage 13 Daniele Nardello / Jean Marie Leblanc Show
1:33:54-1:36:18 Stage 14 Stuart O'Grady
1:36:18-1:39:34 Preview Stage Grenoble-Les Deux Alpes
1:39:34-2:02:58 Stage 15 Marco Pantani Galibier DOPED SHOW
2:02:58-2:12:51 Stage 16 Jan Ullrich DOPED Revenge / Massi Detention
2:12:51-2:24:40 Stage 17 Aix les Bains Strike / Bjarne Riis the TRAITOR
2:24:40-2:26:36 Stage 18 Tom Steels / TVM leaving the race
2:26:36-2:29:39 Stage 19 Marcus Backstedt / Terrados Liberation
2:29:39-2:32.08 Stage 20 Jan Ullrich ITT Le Creusot
2:32:08-2:38:15 Stage 21 Tom Steels / Marco Pantani / Ending