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Quite.
1999: Alex Zülle, banned for Festina Affair.
2000: Jan Ullrich banned for Operación Puerto
2001: Jan Ullrich banned for Operación Puerto
2002: Joseba Belok, implicated in Operación Puerto, not convicted
2003: Jan Ullrich banned for Operación Puerto
2004: Andreas Klöden, accused of blood doping, not convicted
2005: Ivan Basso banned for Operación Puerto
So five out of seven years the runners up were certainly cheats, and the other two are suspicious.