French cyclist

Franck Bouyer (born 17 March 1974, in Beaupréau) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 1995 and 2013. Bouyer competed for the Castorama, Agrigel–La Creuse–Fenioux, Française des Jeux, Bouygues Télécom and Team Europcar squads during his career. Bouyer suffers from narcolepsy, resulting in sudden sleep attacks and cataplexy, and was unable to compete or train without Modafinil.

However, the UCI ruled in June 2004 that Bouyer could not be given a therapeutic use exemption to allow him to compete having taken the drug, so Bouyer was unable to race. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld the decision of the UCI citing that it could not be determined that Modafinil did not provide an extra increase in performance and that the dosage was hard to measure. Despite the rulings by both the UCI and CAS, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) gave Bouyer permission to return to racing in August 2005. Yet, following an appeal to CAS by the UCI, Bouyer was once again banned. In January 2007, Bouyer's contract with Bouygues Télécom expired and the team released him. Bouyer filed a civil lawsuit against the UCI and WADA in July 2007, arguing they were preventing him from working. After confirmation from the UCI that a new drug for treating narcolepsy (Xyrem) was not on the banned list, he signed again for the Bbox Bouygues Telecom team for the 2009 season.

Bouyer retired at the end of the 2013 season.

Contents

• 1 Career achievements
  • 1.1 Major results
  • 1.2 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
• 2 References
• 3 External links

Career achievements

Major results

19994th A Travers le Morbihan8th Giro della Provincia di Siracusa20004th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers20011st Overall Tour du Limousin1st Stage 13rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe4th GP de la Ville de Rennes8th Boucles de l'Aulne9th Grand Prix de Cholet-Pays de Loire20021st Tour de Vendée2nd Grand Prix de Cholet-Pays de Loire3rd Trophée des Grimpeurs5th Boucles de l'Aulne10th Overall Tour du Limousin10th Tour du Haut Var20032nd Grand Prix de Cholet-Pays de Loire3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges7th Tour du Finistère20041st Paris–Camembert2nd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe1st Stage 14th Tour de Vendée20101st Overall Tour de Bretagne20119th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne20137th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

References

External links

• Franck Bouyer at trap-friis.dk
• Europcar Profile