1. Jeroen Johannes Hendrikus Blijlevens was born on 29 December 1971 and is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1994 to 2004.
12 Facts About Jeroen Blijlevens
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Jeroen Blijlevens won a total number of 74 races in his professional career.
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Jeroen Blijlevens showed good results in his first years, and in 1995 was selected to ride the Tour de France, where he won the fifth stage.
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In 1996, Jeroen Blijlevens again won a stage in the Tour de France.
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In 1998 Jeroen Blijlevens won the fourth stage of the Tour.
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That Tour was full of doping allegations, towards the TVM team, and as soon as the race had passed the French-Swiss border, Jeroen Blijlevens left the race, as a protest against the treatments by the French police.
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In 1999, Jeroen Blijlevens wore the pink jersey as leader of the general classification in the Giro d'Italia, after winning the third stage.
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In 2000, Jeroen Blijlevens invested in his climbing-abilities, but this did not work out as planned, and Jeroen Blijlevens was not as successful as before.
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Jeroen Blijlevens failed to win a stage in the Tour de France, and was even disqualified after finishing the last stage for seeking out and assaulting Bobby Julich.
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In 2001, Jeroen Blijlevens rode the Giro d'Italia, where the Italian police raided his team's hotel, but no forbidden products were found.
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Jeroen Blijlevens rode for a low base salary, with bonuses for victories.
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In July he was named in a French Senate report as one of many cyclists who had tested positive for EPO during retesting of samples from the 1998 Tour de France, Jeroen Blijlevens then confessed that he had used EPO since 1997, and that he had lied in the investigation because he wanted to keep his job.