The team doping directory

Statistics

• 32 years of existence
• 28 cases (8th out of 598 teams) involving 22 team members
• 0,88 cases per year (104th out of 598 teams)

Successive names

Year	Team	Category
2024	Soudal - Quick Step	0
2023	Soudal - Quick Step	0
2022	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team	0
2021	DECEUNINCK - QUICK-STEP	0
2020	Deceuninck - Quick - Step	0
2019	Deceuninck - Quick-Step	0
2018	Quick - Step Floors	0
2017	Quick-Step Floors	0
2016	Etixx - Quick Step	0
2015	Etixx - Quick Step	0
2014	Omega Pharma - Quick Step Cycling Team	0
2013	Omega Pharma - Quick Step Cycling Team	0
2012	Omega Pharma - Quick Step	0
2011	Quick Step Cycling Team	0
2010	Quick Step	0
2009	Quick Step	1
2008	Quick Step	1
2007	Quick Step - Innergetic	1
2006	Quick Step - Innergetic	1
2005	Quick Step -Innergetic	2
2004	Quick Step - Davitamon	0
2003	Quick Step - Davitamon	1
2002	Mapei - Quick Step	1
2001	Mapei - Quick Step	3
2000	Mapei - Quick Step	1
1999	Mapei - Quick Step	3
1998	Mapei - Bricobi	4
1997	Mapei - GB	2
1996	Mapei - GB	2
1995	Mapei - GB - Latexco	1
1994	Mapei - Clas	3
1993	Mapei - Eldor	1

List of team doping cases

Rider	Product	Race	Year	Penalization	Control
Boonen Tom	Cocaïne	Contrôle inopiné	2009	Yes	Positive control
Boonen Tom	Cocaïne	Contrôle inopiné	2008	Yes	Positive control
Boonen Tom	Cocaïne	Contrôle inopiné	2007	No	Positive control
Trenti Guido	Acquisition de substances dopantes		2006	Unknown	Police investigation
Lotz Marc	EPO		2005	Yes	Enquête judiciaire, aveux en 2013
Paolini Luca	Acquisition et recel de produits dopants		2005	No	Police investigation
Museeuw Johan	EPO		2003	Yes	Enquête judiciaire
Garzelli Stefano	Probénécide	Tour d'Italie	2002	Yes	Positive control
Besnati Massimo		Tour d'Italie	2001	Unknown	Enquête judiciaire
Nocentini Rinaldo	Possession de caféine		2001	No	Flagrante delicto
Zanini Stefano	Détention d'une seringue d'insuline	Tour d'Italie	2001	Yes	Flagrante delicto
Faresin Gianni	Hématocrite > 50%		2000	Yes	Blood test
Nardello Daniele	Corticosteroids	Tour de France	1999	No	Positive control
Steels Tom	Corticosteroids	Tour de France	1999	No	Senate Commission of Inquiry
Tonkov Pavel	Hématocrite > 50%		1999	Unknown	Blood test
Fois Valentino		Tour de Pologne	1998	Yes	Positive control
Steels Tom	EPO	Tour de France	1998	No	Senate Commission of Inquiry
Tafi Andrea	EPO	Tour de France	1998	No	Senate Commission of Inquiry
Zanini Stefano	EPO	Tour de France	1998	No	Senate Commission of Inquiry
Bugno Gianni	Produits interdits		1997	No	Enquête judiciaire
Fois Valentino		Tour de Suisse	1997	Yes	Positive control
Ballerini Franco	Ephedrine	Grand Prix de Wallonie	1996	Yes	Positive control
Vandenbroucke Franck	DHEA		1996	No	Enquête judiciaire
Echave Musatadi Federico		Tour du Pays Basque	1995	Unknown	Positive control
Ballerini Franco	Salbutamol	Paris-Roubaix	1994	No	Positive control
Olano Abraham	Caffeine	Tour de Catalogne	1994	Yes	Positive control
Rominger Tony	Salbutamol		1994	No	Positive control
Ghiotto Federico		Tour de Valence	1993	Yes	Positive control

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Disclaimer

For a good understanding, the following should be kept in mind:

• We've done our best to piece together the history of the teams beyond their name changes. This would not have been possible without the considerable work of three websites: www.museociclismo.it, www.memoire-du-cyclisme.eu and www.velorooms.com.
• For each team, this list cannot be exhaustive. Indeed, our doping directory , from which the cases listed here are taken, is by nature incomplete. Moreover, we have not been able to precisely date some doping cases. As a result, these cannot be linked with certainty to such or such a team. They therefore do not appear in this list.
• By doping case, one must understand the positive tests, the reports of deficiency , the disciplinary, parliamentary or judicial inquiries or confessions. When we do not know the outcome, we indicate it in the penalty column. We also mention a number of cases for which there was no sanction. This is the case, for example, of late confessions which did not lead to any prosecution.

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