Christophe Bassons
Christophe Basson ( born June 10, 1974 in Mazamet, Tarn ) is a French cyclist.
Career
He began his career in 1991 as a mountain bike rider and was in 1996 with the cycling team Force Sud Street professional, later in Festina before the team La Française des Jeux joined in 1999. In the years 2000 and 2001 he drove for Jean Delatour.
To Festina team he belonged even during the doping scandal at the 1998 Tour de France, where he, however, did not participate. Dama League teammates should have confirmed that the only driver of the Festina team Basson took no banned substances; according to other sources are beside him Patrice Halgand and Laurent Lefèvre have been unloaded.
In 1999 he abandoned the Tour de France from under the pressure of the peloton. He was considered a traitor because he had represented many professionals believes in his daily column as the "only Mr. Clean ". In particular, Lance Armstrong criticized him in a press conference: "If he thinks cycling works like that, he is wrong and it is better that he goes home. "
2001 Basson finished his career as a road cyclist and took a job as a physical education teacher in the triathlon.
In the next few years he took part in mountain bike races. In October 2012, Basson was initially blocked by the French Cycling Federation FFC for a year because he missed a doping control at the national championships in the mountain bike marathon. He explained that he had already abandoned the race and was on the highway when he was drawn to the doping control. The lock has been reduced to one month.