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French cyclist and manager

Roger Legeay

Roger Legeay (born 8 August 1949, Beaufay[1]) is a French former professional racing cyclist and cycling team manager.

Legeay was the manager of the Peugeot cycling team in its final year of existence in 1986. In 1987, he created the Vétements Z–Peugeot team as a continuation of the Peugeot cycling team, which he managed until 2008. During its existence, due to changes in sponsorship, the team was renamed Z–Peugeot (1988–89), Z–Tomasso (1990), Z (1991–92), GAN (1993–96) and Crédit Agricole (1997–2008). Legeay's team is best remembered for being the team which the American cyclist Greg LeMond rode for when he won the Tour de France in 1990.

He managed also Pascal Simon, Stephen Roche, Ronan Pensec, Cédric Vasseur, Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle, Frédéric Moncassin, Stéphane Heulot, Chris Boardman, Thor Hushovd, Stuart O'Grady.

The team disbanded at the end of the 2008 season when Crédit Agricole ended their sponsorship. He was vice-president of the French Cycling Federation too.

Legeay finished 84th in the 1980 Tour de France and during the 1976 Tour de France he finished 35th and was given the Combativity Award on two stages.

In 1974, Legeay tested positive for amphetamines at the Paris–Nice "race to the sun".[2]

In 2007 Legeay was involved in the founding of the Mouvement pour un cyclisme crédible, an organisation of teams and others involved in cycle racing promoting more rigorous standards regarding combating doping in the peloton. He became the movement's president and continued in this role after the disbanding of the Crédit Agricole team.[3]

1976

2nd Brette-les-Pins

3rd General Classification Quatre jours de Dunkerque

2nd Vailly-sur-Sauldre

3rd Vendôme

1977

2nd GP Ouest France

2nd Neufchâtel-en-Bray

3rd Stage 5, Tour de Suisse, Fiesch

3rd Le Quillo

1978

2nd Camors

2nd Chauffailles

1st Fougères

2nd GP de Mauléon Moulins

3rd GP des Herbiers

2nd Lannion

2nd Neufchâtel-en-Bray

1st Stage 4, Tour de Romandie, Montreux

1st Stage 2, Circuit de la Sarthe

1979

3rd Camors

3rd Châteauroux – Classic de l'Indre

2nd Plessala, Plessala

1st Agon-Coutainville

1980

1st Cholet-Pays de Loire

2nd Circuit des genêts verts

1st GP de Mauléon Moulins

3rd Ploërdut

2nd Tour de Vendée

2nd stage 1, Circuit de la Sarthe

1st Stage 3, Circuit de la Sarthe

2nd Maël-Pestivien

1st Josselin

2nd Changé

1981

1st Cholet-Pays de Loire

1st GP de Mauléon Moulins

1st Lisieux, Criterium, Lisieux

2nd Chateau-Chinon

2nd Pointe-à-Pitre

1982

1st Rouen

2nd Joeuf

• List of doping cases in cycling

1. ^ Roger Legeay at Cycling Archives (archived)
2. ^ Cycling Fans - Database of Doping - Legeay, Roger[_permanent dead link_‍]
3. ^ Brown, Gregor (16 November 2012). "Roger Legeay's MPCC is gaining momentum in the wake of the Armstrong Affair". VeloNews. Retrieved 18 October 2014.