Ex-bike professional Pascal Hervé dies at the age of 60-doping scandal is remembered
Ex-bike professional Pascal Hervé dies at the age of 60-doping scandal is remembered
Bielefeld, Deutschland - The German cycling mourns the loss of one of his most controversial representatives: the former cyclist Pascal Hervé died. As the French cycling professional association UNCP announced on social media, the 60-year-old succumbed to his health problems on Tuesday to Wednesday. While the exact cause of the death has not yet been known, we know that Hervé had gone through a dramatic operation last September due to a cancer in which his stomach was completely removed, such as Radio Bielefeld reported.
Pascal Hervé, which was discredited by the 1998 Festina affair, looked back on a career that was characterized by ups and downs. His biggest triumph was the stage victory at Giro d’Italia in 1996, where he had the coveted pink jersey of the leader for a short time. However, his career was overshadowed by the dark sides of sport. In 2000 he confessed to taking blood doping agents like EPO after the doping affair around the Festina team escalated during the Tour de France in 1998. "Yes, I doped," he confessed at the time and explained that it took two and a half years to accept this truth, since he did not want to be "the only idiot" who was caught how performed the daily mirror
The news about his death shakes the cycling community, which mourned the loss of a talented but also controversial athlete. Hervé's life path remains an example of the fights and challenges that many athletes live through in the course of their career. His confessions on doping throw a shadow on his success, but also show the pressure and tentacles of the dark side of the competition in cycling.
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