Stuart O'Grady was born on 6 August 1973 and is a retired Australian professional road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 1995 and 2013.
24 Facts About Stuart O'Grady
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Stuart O'Grady competed in the Tour de France from 1997 and contended for the points classification in the Tour de France known as the green jersey, finishing second in the 1998,1999,2001 and 2005 races.
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Stuart O'Grady wore the yellow jersey of general classification leader in 1998 and 2001.
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However, Hincapie was removed from three of his 17 starts for his part in the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, and Stuart O'Grady himself admitted having been assisted by illicit erythropoietin use at least on the 1998 Tour de France.
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Stuart O'Grady was born in Adelaide and grew up as a part of a cycling family.
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Stuart O'Grady's father represented South Australia in road and track cycling, and his uncle, Robert Baird, is a former Australian cyclist who competed in the men's team pursuit at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
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Stuart O'Grady was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
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Stuart O'Grady joined the GAN professional team, which included English time trial specialist Chris Boardman.
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Stuart O'Grady was Australian Cyclist of the Year and Australian Male Road Cyclist of the Year in 1998 and 2001.
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In 2001, Stuart O'Grady had been in contention for the green jersey with Erik Zabel but he was defeated on the final day.
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Stuart O'Grady still managed to win his second Tour de France stage, in 2004.
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Stuart O'Grady won a stage in the 2004 Tour de France and spent a few days in the green jersey.
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Stuart O'Grady won the UCI Road World Cup race, HEW Cyclassics.
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Stuart O'Grady topped his victories by winning an Olympic gold medal in the madison cycling with Graeme Brown.
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Stuart O'Grady broke several ribs in an early season race in Italy and a vertebra in the Tour de France.
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Stuart O'Grady continued riding the Tour despite the pain, coming third in the final stage.
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Stuart O'Grady had a puncture midway but recovered to rejoin the field before arriving alone in the Roubaix Velodrome.
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On 15 July 2007, Stuart O'Grady was forced to abandon on stage 8 of the 2007 Tour de France, from Le-Grand-Bornand to Tignes, after crashing on a descent, fracturing eight ribs, his right shoulder blade, right collar bone and three vertebrae, and puncturing his right lung.
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On 8 August 2011, Stuart O'Grady announced that he had joined the new Australian team GreenEDGE for 2012.
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Stuart O'Grady announced his retirement from professional cycling as a competitive rider on 23 July 2013, following the conclusion of the 2013 Tour de France.
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On 24 July 2013, Stuart O'Grady was named in the French Senate report detailing EPO use in the 1998 Tour de France as having returned a sample suspicious for EPO use.
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Stuart O'Grady confirmed the same day in an interview with an Australian newspaper that he had taken EPO prior to the 1998 Tour de France, but stated that the arrests around that Tour scared him off doping in the rest of his career.
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Stuart O'Grady set up and financially supports an Australian junior cycling development team, CSC Team Stuart O'Grady, which was established in 2005.
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Stuart O'Grady is today a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organisation.