In addition to these major victories, Boogerd scored a large number of podium finishes in his favorite spring classics, which gave him a reputation in the Netherlands of being 2nd or 3rd more often than winning - a notion he dismissed in a 2007 interview looking back at his career.

In the 2006 Tour de France, Boogerd's role was to support Rabobank team leader Denis Menchov in the Alps and Pyrenees.

On the Thursday before the start of this Tour, Boogerd infused himself with water in the early morning, before the UCI agents could arrive.

[2] During the Tour, Boogerd and Thomas Dekker used cortisone (Diprofos) under a fake attest every day, and administered eight times 2000 entities of Dynepo.

[4] Allegations that Boogerd used performance-enhancing drugs were made since at least 2008, when Bernhard Kohl, who had finished third in the 2008 Tour de France but was stripped of that honor after testing positive for CERA, a variant of EPO[5] accused his manager Stefan Matschiner.

[7] He finally admitted, in a television interview on 6 March 2013 (seen by nearly a million viewers[8]), to having used EPO, blood transfusions and cortisone from 1997 to 2007.