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| Full name | Laurent Jalabert |
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| Nickname | Jaja
Le panda |
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| Born | (1968-11-30) 30 November 1968
Mazamet, France |
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| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) |
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| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb; 10 st 6 lb) |
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| Current team | Retired |
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| Discipline | Road |
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| Role | Rider |
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| Rider type | All-rounder |
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| 1987 | US Montauban |
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| 1988 | GSC Blagnac |
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| 1989–1991 | Toshiba |
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| 1992–2000 | ONCE |
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| 2001–2002 | CSC–Tiscali |
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Grand Tours
- Tour de France
- Points classification (1992, 1995)
- Mountains classification (2001, 2002)
- 4 individual stages (1992, 1995, 2001)
- 1 TTT stage (2000)
- Combativity award (2001, 2002)
- Giro d'Italia
- Points classification (1999)
- 3 individual stages (1999)
- Vuelta a España
- General classification (1995)
- Points classification (1994–1997)
- Mountains classification (1995)
- 18 individual stages (1993–1997)
Stage races
- Paris–Nice (1995, 1996, 1997)
- Volta a Catalunya (1995)
- Tour de Romandie (1999)
- Tour of the Basque Country (1999)
One-day races and Classics
- World Time Trial Championships (1997)
- National Road Race Championships (1998)
- Milan–San Remo (1995)
- Giro di Lombardia (1997)
- La Flèche Wallonne (1995, 1997)
- Milano–Torino (1997)
- Clásica de San Sebastián (2001, 2002)
Other
- UCI Road World Rankings
- (1995, 1996, 1997, 1999)
- Vélo d'Or (1995)
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Laurent Jalabert (born 30 November 1968) is a French former professional road racing cyclist, from 1989 to 2002. Despite neither denying nor admitting using EPO in his notorious cycling teams throughout the 1990s, French Senate investigation proved his EPO use in 2013.
Affectionately known as "Jaja" (slang for a glass of wine; when he continued drinking wine as a professional, the nickname stuck because of the similarity to his name), he won many one-day and stage races and was ranked number 1 in the world in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999.
Although he never won the Tour de France, where he suffered altitude sickness, he won the Vuelta a España in 1995; as well as the leader's jersey, he won the sprinter's jersey and climber's jersey in the same race — only the third rider to have done this in a Grand Tour. With Alessandro Petacchi, Eddy Merckx, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov and Mark Cavendish, he is one of only five riders to win the points classification in all three grand tours.