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Professional cycling is among the sports with the highest number of reported doping cases. The Festina Affair which broke out during the 1998 Tour de France, brought doping to the forefront. Subsequently, promises were made to "clean up" the sport and rid it of doping. This article gives an overview of the top 10 finishers in the General classification in the Tour de France since 1998, along with their individual doping records.

Riders' finishing positions are color coded according to doping status, as explained in the legend below. Note that no distinction is made on whether a rider was doped before, during or after the particular race for which his name is listed, except if the rider was officially disqualified, such as Alberto Contador, Bernhard Kohl and Floyd Landis. Except in these circumstances, the color code for a rider is the same in all years, and does not imply or allege that the rider was doped during any particular edition of the Tour.

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