1. Robert "Bobby" Julich, popularly called Bobby Julich, is an American former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for Team CSC in the UCI ProTour racing series.
21 Facts About Bobby Julich
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Bobby Julich got his international breakthrough when he finished 3rd overall in the 1998 Tour de France, becoming only the second American to finish on the podium.
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Bobby Julich served as a technical director for Team Saxo Bank until November 2010, when it was announced that he would move to Team Sky for the 2011 season as a race coach.
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Bobby Julich got his start in cycling winning the Red Zinger Mini Classics youth bicycle race in 1985.
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At the time it was the biggest stage race in the United States, and Bobby Julich finished 5th overall in a race which included fellow American cyclist and 3-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond.
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Bobby Julich won the award for the Best Young Rider and was heralded as the next LeMond.
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Bobby Julich was treated with radiofrequency ablation and was ready for the 1996 Vuelta a Espana late in the season, a race which showed the first glimpses of his potential in international professional cycling.
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Armstrong's cancer meant that he was not able to compete with the team, while Bobby Julich went on to participate in the 1997 Tour de France.
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Bobby Julich was hailed as the next American Tour de France champion and he was once more proclaimed to follow in the footsteps of Greg LeMond.
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Bobby Julich was part of the Credit Agricole team that won the team time trial stage of the 2001 Tour de France.
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Bobby Julich only enjoyed lacklustre results, and at the end of the 2003 season he contemplated retiring.
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Bobby Julich rode as a supporting rider in the Tour de France, but with the freedom to pursue his own chances during the rest of the season.
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Bobby Julich immediately saw his riding and performance improve, as he won a time-trial in the April 2004 race Tour of the Basque Country, his first victory since the 1998 season.
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Bobby Julich won a silver medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics men's individual time trial event behind Russian Viatcheslav Ekimov.
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Bobby Julich won the Criterium International and the Eneco Tour, making Julich the 8th ranked rider in the UCI ProTour, helping Team CSC become the highest ranked team of 2005.
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However, Bobby Julich suffered heavily from pollen allergy throughout the race, and he did not play a major role himself, but focused on helping Ivan Basso, as Basso won the 2006 Giro.
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Bobby Julich went into a turn too fast, slid on small pebbles, and he severely injured his wrist when falling.
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On October 25,2012, Bobby Julich admitted to "using EPO several times from August 1996 until July 1998" and resigned from the United Kingdom-based Team Sky.
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Bobby Julich stated that he wished to continue to be involved in the sport to some extent, and that he would pay the consequences for his poor decisions.
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Bobby Julich told him if it would reoccur, the relationship would be over.
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Bobby Julich's name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found suspicious for EPO when retested in 2004.