Jacky Durand

One-day races and Classics Jacky Durand (born 10 February 1967 in Laval, Mayenne) is a French former professional road bicycle racer.

Durand won the combativity award in the 1998 and 1999 Tour de France; the latter year he also took the Lanterne Rouge.

Yes, when they play the Marseillaise for you after a championship and then you go and show it off for three weeks in the Tour de France, the national flag on your shoulders, it's emotion and pleasure every day.

The French magazine, Vélo, printed a monthly Jackymètre to log the kilometres ridden at the head of races during the course of the season.

Guimard told him to attack early in the national championship at Châtellerault in 1993, to try his chance and to spoil those of Laurent Brochard and Luc Leblanc.

[6] The writer, Jean-François Quénet, said Guimard told Durand to attack far from the finish "because he didn't want to see Laurent Brochard in blue, white and red and even less did he want a second consecutive title for Luc Leblanc, who was in disgrace in the Castorama team.".

[10] Durand took drugs during the Tour de la Côte Picarde in 1996 and was given a one-month probationary suspension.

[12] His name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004.