Geneviève Jeanson

Geneviève Jeanson

Jeanson at the 2002 Women's Challenge
Personal information
Full name Geneviève Jeanson
Born (1981-08-29) August 29, 1981
Lachine, Quebec, Canada
Team information
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Infobox last updated on
September 7, 2008

Geneviève Jeanson (born August 29, 1981) is a former professional bicycle racer from Quebec, Canada. She won the world junior road and time trial championships in 1999 and the Tour de Snowy in 2000. Later that year she won La Flèche Wallonne World Cup race. She joined the Canadian Olympic team that year. She acknowledged in a documentary on Radio-Canada (the French-language CBC) on September 20, 2007, that she had taken EPO more or less continuously since she was 16 years old.[1]

After residing in Phoenix, Arizona and San Diego, California (where she studied sociology and psychology), Jeanson came back to Lachine, Quebec in 2012. She is now living back home with her once estranged parents. At the moment, Janson is pursuing her College level education at the Saint-Anne Collégial International. In autumn 2014, Jeanson will be attending Concordia University, in Montreal, where she will be studying Neuroscience. To earn a living she is an assistant cook.

2000 Olympic selection

Controversy dogged Jeanson throughout her career. Before the Olympics in 2000, she was accused of seeking special treatment by wanting an exemption from Olympic selection rules adopted by the Canadian Cycling Association. She said the procedure considered cumulative results for 1999 and 2000 but that she had raced as a junior in 1999 and could not achieve the results needed for selection. She and the Canadian Cycling Federation agreed that she would qualify for the Olympic selection race if she could finish in the top eight of two of five selected races.[2] This she did by winning the Tour de Snowy and La Flèche Wallonne Féminine. Then, in July 2000, she qualified by finishing ahead of the other candidates in the Canadian Road Cycling Championship.

2000 Olympics

Controversy followed her to the Olympics. Towards the end of the road race, her teammate Lyne Bessette was in a break. Jeanson's detractors maintain that, on instructions from her coach, André Aubut, Jeanson helped chase the break and denied her teammate an opportunity to win a medal. Jeanson's defenders said she had ridden near the front as expected of a teammate trying to break the chase, and moved forward only to close a small gap when the break was almost caught.

2001 Racing

In 2001, she won four of five stages at the Redlands Bicycle Classic, winning overall by nearly 10 minutes, an unprecedented margin. Then, at the Tour of the Gila in early May, she won four of five stages and the overall victory, this time by an unprecedented 15 minutes. On some stages she broke away early and rode alone the rest of the way. In early June, she won the Montreal World Cup, lapping most of the field and winning by more than seven minutes.

Doping

Geneviève Jeanson with her coach André Aubut

In late 2003, while with the national team preparing for the world championships in Hamilton, Ontario, Jeanson had a hematocrit level (a measure of red cells in the blood) above the limit and was not allowed to race for two weeks. She missed the championships. Jeanson blamed the finding on an altitude tent used as part of her training. Subsequent doping tests were negative.[3]

On 25 July 2005, at the Tour de 'Toona stage race in Pennsylvania, Jeanson had an out-of-competition test. Jeanson said months later that she tested positive for EPO, a banned substance. She denied taking a banned substance but in January 2006 she announced her retirement. On November 28, 2006, the United States Anti-Doping Agency said she had accepted a two-year suspension from 25 July 2005, the day her sample was taken.

In an interview on Cyclingnews.com on 20 December 2006, Jeanson said that although she could race again from mid-July 2007, she "won't race ever again." She said she had "changed so much this past year that I have a hard time imagining who I was before." She finally admitted to doping to a French CBC journalist.[1] Her coach André Aubut and doctor Maurice Duquette were banned for life by the Canadian Center for Ethics in Sport in 2009.[4]

2014 Movie

La Petite Reine, a movie inspired by her life, was released in 2014. Jeanson’s character is renamed Julie Arseneau (played by Laurence Leboeuf).[5]

Palmares

1998
  • World Junior Time Trial Championships - 3rd place
    • Canada Canadian Road Cycling Championships
    • Junior Women Time Trial - 1st place
    • Junior Women Road Race - 1st place
1999
  • World Junior Cycling Championships
    • Road Race - 1st place
    • Time Trial - 1st place
  • Green Mountain Stage Stage Race - 1st place GC, stage victory
  • Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb - 1st place; 8th (overall)
  • Fitchburg-Longsjo Classic - 2nd place GC
    • Canada Canadian Road Cycling Championships
    • Junior Women Time Trial - 1st place
    • Junior Women Road Race - 1st place
2000
  • Olympic Games (Sydney, Aus)
    • Road Race - 11th place
  • Mt. Washington Hill Climb - 2nd place
  • Canadian Road Cycling Championships
    • Time Trial - 2nd place
  • La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (Bel) World Cup - 1st place
  • Tour de Snowy
    • Final Overall GC - 1st place
    • Won Mountain Jersey
    • Stage 3 (Talbingo Time Trial) - 5th place
    • Stage 4 (Khancoben to Cabramurra) - 1st place
    • Stage 6 (Jindabyne to Thredbo) - 2nd place
2001
  • UCI Points List - 24th place
  • GP Féminin International du Canada (2.9.2)
    • Stage 3 (Richford to Lac Brome) - 2nd place
  • Tour de 'Toona
    • Final General Classification - 1st place
    • Stage 1 (Time Trial) - 1st place
    • Stage 2 - 3rd place
    • Stage 4 (Martinsburg Circuit Race) - 2nd place
    • Stage 5 (Jaffa Mosque Road Race) - 1st place
    • Stage 6 - 2nd place
  • Canadian Road Cycling Championships
    • Time Trial - 2nd place
    • Road Race - 3rd place
  • Fitchburg-Longsjo Classic
    • Final General Classification - 2nd place
    • Stage 1 (Time Trial) - 2nd place
    • Stage 2 (Circuit Race) - 1st place
    • Stage 3 (Road Race) - 1st place
    • Stage 4 (Criterium) - 3rd place
  • Montréal (Can) World Cup - 1st place
  • Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb - 1st place (female); 3rd place (overall)
  • Tour of the Gila
    • Final general classification - 1st place
    • Stage 1 (Tyrone Time Trial, 15.7 miles) - 1st place
    • Stage 2 (Silver City to Mogollan Road Race) - 1st place
    • Stage 3 (Inner Loop Road Race) - 1st place
    • Stage 4 (Downtown Silver City Criterium) - 5th place
    • Stage 5 (Gila Monster Road Race) - 1st place
  • Redlands Bicycle Classic (2.9.2)
    • Final general classification - 1st place
    • Mountains classification - 1st place
    • Stage 1 (Mt. Rubidoux Time Trial - 5 km) - 1st place
    • Stage 2 (Highland Road Race - 120 km) - 2nd place
    • Stage 3 (Sun Time Trial - 17.3 km) - 1st place
    • Stage 4 (Saturn Road Race - 130 km) - 1st place
    • Stage 6 (Sunset Road Race - 99.5 km) - 1st place
  • Valley of the Sun Stage Race
    • Final Overall GC - 1st place
    • Stage 1 (Trek Time Trial, 12.4 miles) - 1st place
    • Stage 2 (Landis Cyclery Road Race) - 1st place
2002
  • UCI Points list - 27th place
  • Canadian Time Trial Championships - 1st place
  • Women's Challenge (cat. 1) - 2nd place GC, Points jersey, Mountains jersey, stage victory
  • Le Tour du Montréal (cat. 2) - 7th place GC, stage victory
  • Montréal (Can) World Cup - 3rd place
  • Tour of the Gila - 1st place GC, 4 stage victories
  • Sea Otter Classic - 6th place GC, stage victory
  • Redlands Bicycle Classic - 2nd place GC, Mountains jersey, stage victory
  • Valley of the Sun Stage Race - 1st place GC, stage victory
  • Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb - 1st place (female); 3rd place (overall)
2003
2004
  • UCI Points list - 35th place
  • International Tour de Toona - stage victory
  • Montreal (Can) World Cup - 1st place
  • Redlands Bicycle Classic (cat. 2) - 2nd place GC, 2 stage victories
2005
2006
  • Under suspension (see above - 2005 Tour de 'Toona)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Canadian cyclist Jeanson admits to doping". CBC. September 20, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-20.
  2. ↑ "Jeanson gets shot at Olympic team". Canoe. Retrieved 2007-09-20.
  3. ↑ Christie, James (15 June 2004). "Jeanson fined, warned for skipping drug test". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  4. ↑ Haake, Bjorn (2 April 2009). "Jeanson's coach and doctor banned for life". Cycling News.
  5. ↑ Dunlevy, T'Cha (June 13, 2014). "Movie review: La petite reine". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
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