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Perico Delgado Confesses: 'with Current Rules, I Would Have Been Kicked Out of the Tour'

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Pedro Delgado, the Segovian cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1988, has once again remembered one of the most bitter and controversial episodes of his career: the positive for doping that was about to ruin his greatest triumph. "With the current rules, I'm sure they would have thrown me out," he now recognizes with a mixture of relief and rage, as he looked back almost four decades later.Perico's victory in 1988 was celebrated as a milestone…
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Pedro Delgado, the Segovian cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1988, has once again remembered one of the most bitter and controversial episodes of his career: the positive for doping that was about to ruin his greatest triumph. "With the current rules, I'm sure they would have thrown me out," he now recognizes with a mixture of relief and rage, as he looked back almost four decades later.Perico's victory in 1988 was celebrated as a milestone…

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Sports.fr broke the news in on Saturday, July 5, 2025.
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