Didier Rous

Didier Rous

Rous in 2006
Personal information
Full name	Didier Rous
Born	September 18, 1970 (1970-09-18) (age 41) Montauban, France
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1993–1996 1997–1999 2000–2007	GAN Festina Bouygues Télécom
Major wins
Tour de France, 1 stages (1997) National Road Race Champion (2001, 2003) Grand Prix du Midi Libre (2000)
Infobox last updated on December 26, 2007

Didier Rous (born September 18, 1970 in Montauban, France) is a former professional road bicycle racer.

He started his professional career with Gan in 1993 before leaving for Festina in 1997, the year in which he won a stage of the Tour de France. In 1998 the Tour and in particular the Festina team were struck by a doping scandal which led to revelations that the team had organised a doping fund under the managemt of Bruno Roussel, the directeur sportif, and the team's doctor, Erik Rykaert. Rous said he had taken the blood enhancer, EPO.

In 2000 he joined a new team, Bonjour, sponsored by a newspaper chain and managed by the former rider Jean-René Bernaudeau. He stayed with Bernaudeau as the team's sponsors changed and ride under its new sponsor, Brioches La Boulangère (2003–2004) and then Bouygues Telecom (2005).

Rous said on 11 June 2007 that he was stopping racing because of health problems and joined the management of the Bouygues Telecom team.

Palmarès

1993

1st, GP d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

1994

4th, Overall, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1996

1st, Stage 4, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

1st, Stage 3 (ITT), Critérium International

2nd, La Flèche Wallonne

1997

1st, Stage 18, Tour de France

2000

1st, Overall, Grand Prix du Midi Libre

1st, Paris–Camembert

2001

National Road Race Champion

Four Days of Dunkirk

1st, Overall, Stage 5 and 6 (ITT)

1st, Overall, Tour de Vendée

1st, Trophée des Grimpeurs

1st, Prologue, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

11th, Overall, Tour de France

2002

1st, Overall, Circuit de la Sarthe

2nd, Overall, Four Days of Dunkirk

2003

National Road Race Champion

1st, Trophée des Grimpeurs

1st, Overall, Tour du Limousin

2nd, Overall, Four Days of Dunkirk

2004

1st, GP Ouest-France

1st, Stage 3, Four Days of Dunkirk

2005

1st, Stage 3 (ITT), Route du Sud

2006

Paris–Corrèze

1st, Overall, Points Competitions and Stage 1

1st, Trophée des Grimpeurs

See also

• List of doping cases in cycling
• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

External links

• Profile at Bouygues Télécom official website (French)
• Didier Rous at Trap-Friis.dk

Persondata
Name	Rous, Didier
Alternative names
Short description	Road racing cyclist
Date of birth	1970-09-18
Place of birth	Montauban, France
Date of death
Place of death