17 teams were automatically selected based on their Sergei Ivanov, from Farm Frites; Rossano Brasi, from; Andrei Hauptman, from; all because they had a hematocrit value above 50 %.
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Erwann Menth�our's book, " Secret Defonce : Ma v�rit?sur le dopage " ( February 1999 ) describes how he used EPO while riding for Fran�aise des Jeux in 1997, and stated that the soigneur of the Fran�aise des Jeux team, Jef d'Hont, was the one providing him with EPO and treating him with a glucose-infusion one hour ahead of a UCI hematocrit test in the 1997 edition of Paris-Nice, in a vain attempt to lower his hematocrit value below the 50 %-limit.