1998 Tour de France: Festina medical team member Willy Voet arrested at French border after customs officers seize banned substances, including erythropoietin (EPO).
Festina kicked out of race and their riders later admit to taking performance-enhancing drugs. Top rider Richard Virenque banned for nine months, team director Bruno Roussel and Voet fined and given suspended jail sentences.
1999 Giro d'Italia: Tour and Giro champion Marco Pantani (Italy) expelled while leading race after failing blood haematocrit test.
2001 Giro d'Italia: France's Pascal Herve is retired from the Giro by his Alexia team after failing a test for EPO. Mercatone Uno rider Riccardo Forconi does not start 17th stage after failing a dope test. Police officers search the rooms of riders from all 20 teams, confiscating medicines. Second-placed Dario Frigo is sacked by Fassa Bortolo after illegal drugs are found in his room. An insulin syringe found in a room where Pantani stayed leads to a six-month ban for the Italian.
2002 Tour de France: The wife of Lithuanian rider Raimondas Rumsas, is arrested after French police find doping substances in the boot of her car. Edita Rumsas said the stock, which included testosterone, EPO and anabolic steroids, was for her sick mother. Rumsas (finished third) denies his wife obtained doping products for him and that he ever took any.
2004 Tour de France: Italian Stefano Casagranda and Slovenian Martin Hvastija are kicked out of the Tour on doping charges. Briton's David Millar, France's Cedric Vasseur and Italian Danilo Di Luca are not allowed in the race for the same reason.
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