Geneviève Jeanson

Geneviève Jeanson ( born August 29, 1981 in Lachine ) is a former Canadian cyclist.

Cycling career

Geneviève Jeanson 1999 Double Junior World Champion at the Championships in Verona. The following year she was nominated for the Olympic squad of Canada for the Sydney Games, where she finished 15th in the road race and 11th place in the individual time trial. In the same year she also won the Flèche Wallonne.

In the following years Jeanson reüssierte at road races. She won the 2001 Redland Bicycle Classic, 2001 and 2003, the Tour of the Gila and 2001, 2002 and 2005, the Tour de Toona. Three times she has been to 2005 Canadian Road Champion. Often she won the race by avulsion and with several minutes came ahead to the finish.

Doping

In the road world championship in 2003 in Hamilton, an increased hematocrit value was tested at Jeanson, and she received a curfew. The athlete led to the increased value to the training in a vacuum chamber. When Flèche Wallonne 2004, she refused to doping control. 2005, increased hematocrit value were found during the Tour de Toona again, whereupon Jeanson was initially locked for life. In the U.S., the lock was later shortened to two years, in Canada it was on.

In April 2009, this lifetime ban was reduced to ten years, because Jeanson cooperated with the government and both their coach Andre Aubet and their physician -loaded, which were subsequently banned for life in sports. They claimed to have been doped with EPO since the age of 16. While in the U.S. she would have since been allowed to race, she finished her cycling career. In an interview she said: "I've changed so much this past year did I have a hard time imagining who I was before. " ( "I've changed so much in the last year that I could only imagine, I have trouble who I had been before. " )

Geneviève Jeanson now lives in Phoenix, Arizona where he runs a restaurant.