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Key facts
- 1987
- US Montauban
- 1988
- GSC Blagnac
- Full name
- Laurent Jalabert
- Nickname
- Jaja , Le panda
- Born
- ( 1968-11-30 ) 30 November 1968 (age 57) , Mazamet , France
- Height
- 1.76 m (5 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 66 kg (146 lb; 10 st 6 lb)
- Current team
- Retired
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- All-rounder
- 1989 1991
- Toshiba
- 1992 2000
- ONCE
- 2001 2002
- CSC–Tiscali
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Laurent
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Mazamet
- Sibling
- Nicolas Jalabert
- Occupation
- color commentator
- Employer
- France Télévisions
- Languages spoken
- French
- Award
- Vélo d'Or
- Sport
- triathlon
- Member of team
- La Vie claire
- Country for sport
- France
- Mass
- 68
- Official website
- www.laurent-jalabert.com
- Image
- Laurent Jalabert (Tour de France - stage 8) - 2 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 176
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- Laurent Jalabert
- date of birth
- 1968-11-30
- name in native language
- Laurent Jalabert
- social media followers
- 1397
- writing language
- French
- sports discipline competed in
- road bicycle racing
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laurent Jalabert” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.