Pascal Hervé, a former leader and stage winner of the Giro d’Italia but who was best known for his part in the scandal-struck 1998 Tour de France, has died late on December 24. He was 60.
A devoted lieutenant to Festina leader Richard Virenque in the 1990s, Hervé and his teammates were expelled mid-way through the 1998 Tour as police raids and questioning of sports directors and soigneurs turned up detailed evidence of mass doping within multiple squads.
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