Jonathan Vaughters
Jonathan Vaughters ( born June 10, 1973 in Denver) is an American former racing cyclist, team manager of a cycling teams and cycling official. Vaughters was a good climber, a specialist in stage races and helpers, who scored their own successes. He confessed to the abuse of doping during his active career as a professional cyclist. As a team leader and cycling functionary, he represents the public a strict anti - doping policy
Cyclist
Vaughters began his pro career in 1994 with the Spanish team Porcelena Santa Clara. In 1997 he ran for the U.S. team Comptel - Colorado Cyclist. He moved in 1998 to the U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team, in which he supported Lance Armstrong in his first Tour de France victory. In 2000-2002, he rode for the French Credit Agricole team and for a brief period in 2003 when the Prime Alliance Cycling Team, where he ended his career as a professional cyclist.
His greatest success as a professional cyclist, he celebrated with the French stage race Dauphiné, where he graduated in 1999 at the second place overall and in each case where he won the mountain top finish on Mont Ventoux in 1999 and 2001. In 1997 he won also the national champion title in the time trial. In addition, some victories came still in the race in its U.S. homeland and the overall victory at the French stage race Route du Sud in 1999.
Caused a stir Vaughters, when he was forced to retire in 2001 after an insect bite the Tour de France, as it was not permitted him under the Anti- Doping Regulations, to treat the severely swollen eye with cortisone.
Team Manager
Jonathan Vaughters was after his racing career CEO of Slipstream Sports and Team Manager of the UCI ProTeam Garmin - Sharp. In addition to the operational Slipstream Sports ProTeam until the end of 2012 as the " farm team " the Chipotle Development Team, First Solar with its status as a UCI Continental Team. In 2011, the company was also a UCI Women's team, which was called " Garmin - Cervélo ."
In 2009, Jonathan Vaughters Association Internationale des Groupes Cyclistes Professionnel ( AIGCP ) was elected president of the team operator association. Because he wanted to concentrate according to him more on his team, and to obtain a Master of Business Administration from the University of Denver, he did not campaign for the upcoming re-election in March 2013 and was replaced by Luuc Eisenga in this function.
Doping
In a column for the New York Times on August 11, 2012 Vaughters admitted to have used during his time as an active cyclist doping. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the doping regulations were so easy to get around, that he would have had as other drivers of this era only the choice to give up the dream of being a successful professional cyclist or defraud. The athlete should such a choice can not be left. The only way to avoid this is to maximize their efforts to enforce the Anti-Doping Rules. Vaughters was not contiguous in the article, in which time he dopte; However, he expressed previously on Twitter that the Crédit Agricole team, where he drove from 2000 to 2002, was " clean " was and that there was less pressure than before at the Armstrong team U.S. Postal Service.
His team Garmin -Sharp is a member of the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme credible and has thus committed itself to rules about the use of drugs that are more stringent than the rules of the World Andi Doping Agency and the International Cycling Union.