In 1998 the Tour de France was in dire straits. A car belonging to the Festina team was stopped on the French-Belgium border. The boot was full of performance enhancing drugs. What followed were police raids and arrests. It culminated with the Festina team being booted off the Tour. Other riders and teams were outraged and protested at their treatment. Fans were livid. Booing and jeering at every turn of the pedal. 1998 was a dark stain on the history of the Tour de France. In 1999, a new story quickly emerged to blow away the dirt. A man who…