Pierre Dumas was a French doctor who pioneered drug tests in the Olympic Games and cycling.
23 Facts About Pierre Dumas
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Pierre Dumas was doctor of the Tour de France from 1952 to 1969 and head of drug-testing at race until 1977.
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Pierre Dumas then studied to become a doctor and joined the Ecole Nationale de la Sante Publique in Paris in 1951.
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Pierre Dumas was a short, stocky figure, a Greco-Roman wrestler who had a black belt in judo.
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Pierre Dumas knew nothing more of cycling than he had read in the newspapers when in July 1952 he cancelled a climbing holiday in the Alps to become doctor at the Tour de France.
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Pierre Dumas told Philippe Brunel of L'Equipe that he saw riders injecting themselves as they rode.
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Pierre Dumas came to the 1952 Tour de France when the original doctor pulled out.
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Pierre Dumas was a judoka rather than a cyclist and had none of the preconceptions established in cycling.
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Pierre Dumas was already no longer in the real world, still less in the world of cyclists and the Tour de France.
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Pierre Dumas had to force [Mallejac's] jaws apart to try to make him drink and it was a quarter of an hour later, after he had received an injection of Solcamphor and been given oxygen, that Mallejac regained consciousness.
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Pierre Dumas fought, he gesticulated, he shouted, demanded his bike, wanted to get out.
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Pierre Dumas had established tests could be conducted and wrote to Avery Brundage, the Games president.
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In 1965, Pierre Dumas quoted a report by "a national cycle coach":.
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Pierre Dumas asked riders to allow him to test them, promising secrecy.
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Pierre Dumas gave his first public warning about doping during the 1962 Tour de France, when 12 riders fell out sick in a single day, many of them from the same team.
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Pierre Dumas concluded that they had taken a badly administered cocktail that included morphine, a pain-killer.
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Pierre Dumas took a stroll at dawn near his hotel, the Noaille at Cannebiere, where he met other race followers on the day of Simpson's death.
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Pierre Dumas was responsible for the wellbeing of riders in the race but had no control over their preparation, over their teams, or over the drug tests themselves.
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Pierre Dumas was aware of that on the eve of Simpson's death on 13 July 1967.
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Pierre Dumas went another 300m, helped by unknown arms, then fell again.
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Pierre Dumas refused to sign a burial certificate and a poisons expert was commissioned to conduct an autopsy.
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Pierre Dumas was not the first doctor to call for drugs tests but his position in the Tour de France, which in his time was smaller and more intimate so that he could visit most of the teams most evenings, gave him a closer sight than others.
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Pierre Dumas tied strings to it so that he could care for riders while driving.