Michel Pollentier is a Belgian former professional road racer who turned professional in 1973. The highlight of his career was winning the 1977 Giro d'Italia, which makes him one of only three Belgians to take that race, with Eddy Merckx and Johan de Muynck. In the 1978 Tour de France he won the stage to Alpe d'Huez as Belgian national champion and took the yellow jersey, but he was expelled from the race after the doping control, where he was caught using a tube of different urine hidden under his armpit. The affair cost him much of his standing, though he won the 1980 Tour of Flanders and finished third in the 1982 Vuelta a España. He later ran a tyre garage and a cycling school.
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is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer
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is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer
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is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer
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In the 1978 Tour de France, he was the Belgian national champion when he won the stage arriving in Alpe d'Huez
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