It's hard to fight the power of the United States government... never understood why the US Postal Service was backing a bicycle team to begin with and if that wasn't nutty enough they used my taxes to single out one doper out of hundreds and sentenced him to lifetime of not competing in a bicycle race... even as a triathlete because a bicycle was involved? Pretty ridiculous. Meanwhile, Il Pirate still won a TdF…?
1998:
He won both the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia in 1998, being the sixth Italian after Ottavio Bottecchia, Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, Felice Gimondi and Gastone Nencini to win the Tour de France.