Michael RASMUSSEN

Michael Rasmussen was a Danish cyclist who started out as a mountain biker, winning the 1999 World Championship in mountain bike cross-country. He then turned to the roads where he became a top climber in the pro peloton. Rasmussen won the mountains classification at the 2005 and 2006 Tour de France. In 2007, he led the Tour and wore yellow from stages 8 through 16. But he was controversially pulled from the Tour over doping allegations, when it turned out he had missed several random tests, probably purposefully. After a two-year suspension he returned to racing in late 2009.