 Lance Armstrong has been criticized for his disagreements with outspoken opponents of doping, such as sports journalist Paul Kimmage and cyclist Christophe Bassons.Bassons wrote a number of articles for a French newspaper during the 1999 Tour de France which made references to doping in the peloton.Subsequently, Armstrong started a confrontation during that Tour where he rode up alongside Bassons on the Alpe d'Huez stage to, according to Bassons, tell him "it was a mistake to speak out the way I do and [Armstrong] asked why I was doing it.