Jeroen Blijlevens

Jeroen Johannes Hendrikus Blijlevens, nicknamed Jerommeke, is a retired Dutch road racer who was born on 29 December 1971 in Gilze en Rijen, North Brabant, and rode as a professional from 1994 to 2004. He was one of the leading sprinters of the Netherlands in the 1990s, with 11 stage victories across the Tour de France, the Vuelta a España and the Giro d'Italia and 74 wins in all. He won Tour de France stages in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, the 1997 win coming after Erik Zabel was disqualified, and in 1999 he wore the pink jersey at the Giro d'Italia after winning the third stage. After retiring he worked as a directeur sportif and a cycling commentator. In 2013 he admitted that he had used EPO since 1997, after a French Senate report named him among riders whose 1998 Tour samples tested positive on retesting.