Didier Rous

Didier Rous is a French former professional road bicycle racer, born on 18 September 1970 in Montauban. He turned professional with the Gan team in 1993 and moved to Festina in 1997, the season in which he won a stage of the Tour de France. His career is also tied to the 1998 Tour, when the Festina team was caught in a doping scandal that revealed an organised doping fund; Rous acknowledged that he had taken the blood booster EPO. In 2000 he joined the new Bonjour team under the former rider Jean-Rene Bernaudeau and stayed with that manager as the sponsor changed, riding for Brioches La Boulangere in 2003 and 2004 and then Bouygues Telecom in 2005. He also rode the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Rous announced on 11 June 2007 that he was ending his racing career because of health problems, and he then joined the management of the Bouygues Telecom team.