Key events can be any memorable event, for example an impressive victory but also a major crash, bold solo or anything that makes for sporting memories.
Description
On July the 16th 1978 the Belgian rider Michel Pollentier won what should have been one of the most iconic stages of his impressive cycling career. Donned in the polka dot jersey as leader in the KOM-classification he won the queens stage of that year's Tour de France on top of the Alpe d'Huez . But, at the anti-doping control after the stage medical examiner Alain Calvez found a very nervous Pollentier. "That's why I searched Pollentier, and at that moment I found a tube, which I pulled on. I also found a rubber 'pear' under his armpit that he could use to squeeze urine into the bottle through the tube."Pollentier was disqualified and the stage was 'won' by Hennie Kuiper. From then on Michiel Pollentier had a new nickname: 'Peerke Pollentier'. Later teammate Freddy Maertens told that it was not a 'pear' under his arm, but a rectally inserted condom...
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