Jesper Skibby

Jesper Skibby, born on 21 March 1964, is a retired professional road racing cyclist who was one of the most popular riders in Denmark, known as much for his wit and constant banter as for his talent. He rode for the Dutch team TVM from 1989 to 1997 and then for the Danish team Team home - Jack & Jones, where he ended his career in 2000. He is one of the relatively few riders to have won stages in all three major tours: the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. He took stage 5 of the 1993 Tour de France, won the Tour of Holland in 1994 after a long breakaway on the last stage, and was leading the 1987 Tour of Flanders when a race director's car drove over his bike on the Koppenberg, an incident after which the climb was left out of the route for 17 years. In 2006 he published an autobiography in which he confessed to using doping for more than ten years.