SAMPLES Antipodes
Miguel Indurain, the winner. Claudio Chiappucci, his most unyielding rival. Often ended so the great revolutions of the early nineties. Two samples from the opposite characteristics: powerful wait-and English, and agile arrembante Italian. The first, very strong time trial, imposed prohibitive for all intervals. The second was exalted sparking the brawl uphill. Together, they made even the largest Tour of Italy and the Tour de France, Cori in which, despite the obvious final - the navarro in pink or yellow and green or polka-dot jersey in Varese - the show was guaranteed.
1992, THE FIRST MATCH IN PINK
For Indurain 1992 is the year of a row in yellow and mating Giro-Tour double that Navarro will repeat the following season.
The first success of a English rider in the Tour of Italy, centered by Miguel at the first attempt is made even more significant by the great value of the claimants to the ultimate success: retired on the eve of the French Bernard street, the lot of the favorites include the Fignon Jalabert and his countrymen, the American Hampsten, Kelly Irish, Latvian and Italians Ugrumov Chiappucci, Lelli, Gotti and Giovannetti.
Since preliminary time trial of the leader of the Banesto Genova suggests that he came to the Giro to win and not to prepare for the Tour, and it sells for only 3 "in a short time trial specialist, Frenchman Thierry Marie, the first pink jersey .
In the third stage, the olive grove Spa-Arezzo, Indurain breaks the plunge and took first. In the time trial the next day, from Arezzo to Sansepolcro, taking the lead heavy then will only handle with great tactical intelligence. Spend free
the Dolomites, the Alps takes a champion Finally, sealed the victory with an extraordinary display against time in the final stage, the 22nd, from Vigevano Milan, swept the remarkable average of 50.127 km / h. Along the way Miguel
Chiappucci that even reaches the second in the standings, was third party 'before him. The Varese, with a surge of pride keeps about twenty yards ahead, although among those who work in the common belief is that English did not want to humiliate it, surpassing, the brave Italian runners.
The ultimate success does not admit of discussion: Indurain, rose in the third last lap, leaving a 5'12 "and 7'16 Chiappucci a spiral, the Italians that keep him company on the podium. To crown the domain of Miguel, the blue jersey of the winner Intergiro. A ROSE IN THE
The second, consecutive victory Indurain in the Tour of Italy to humanize the English champion, which for the first time is really in trouble: going into the penultimate stage, which ends with a hard climb to the Sanctuary Oropa. Miguel is in pink and Ugrumov attacks him thoroughly in an attempt to reassemble the gap of 1'34 "that separates him from the championship leader. Indurain gives a crash and must use all his willpower to keep the jersey. We will succeed, but crossed the line, will be forced to lean on the stage of the jury, exhausted. Historical image and its drama competitive spirit, unforgettable, poignant "beauty."
Unlike the previous round, this time Indurain does not appear in top form, but finds an unusual ally in Moreno Argentin. The Venetian, which boasts an outstanding career as a hunter classic, as the leader's jersey in the first stage and then, for ten days, the team wisely pilot to control the race. The Navarro took the opportunity to recover the best condition in view of the time trial in Senigallia, scheduled at the tenth stage. In those 28 km against the clock to try and win the English conquest of the pink jersey then submit, to the 11th stage, the surprising Bruno Leali, before you take it up again in the 14th fraction, the Tappone Corvara. Eventually the navarro triumphs with 58 "and up Ugrumov 5'27" on Chiappucci now subscribed to the podium.
AROUND 1994, THE LOSS OF TRIS
In 1994, when all come to expect the fantastic trio consecutive Giro-Tour, Indurain king must abdicate, even if only in the Giro, two young scatenatissimi: Russian Eugeni Berzin and Marco Romagna Pantani. Miguel defeated their on the ground most favorable to him: The race against time, especially on which he built the two consecutive one-two in pink and yellow. In
chronometer in Follonica Grosseto, the eighth stage, Berzin gives a sound lesson to Indurain, who must settle for third place, also preceded by former wingman Armand De Las Cuevas. Against the best
Berzin Pantani's career and a wonderful protagonist in the mountains, Miguel - back from a preparation reduced by trouble in the knee suffered early in the season - the Tour ends on the third step of the podium, with 3'23 "of delay Berzin and 32 from behind Pantani. The interregnum in his pink ends there.
INDURAIN
Miguelon STORY, THE CHAMPION GENTLEMAN
Larraya Miguel Indurain was born July 16, 1964 in Villa, the English town of about ten thousand inhabitants located near Pamplona, \u200b\u200bin the autonomous community of Navarre.
approaches to cycling fairly random, covering cycling the 26 miles that separate Elloriz Villa, the mother country.
At age 11 he won his first race, wearing the colors of the Club Ciclista Villavés. Indurain phrase that describes the award is to be read: "A bocadillo a Fanta y, y eso me gusta" ("a sandwich and a Fanta, and I was happy").
national amateur champion in 1983, go pro in September 1984 and since then militerà in the same sports team, before Reynolds and Banesto, led by José Miguel Echavarri, ds that already has two years in their amateur team.
first win of Indurain among professionals is a fraction of the Tour de L'Avenir, stage race that conquisteràdue years later, in 1986. In 1985 he participated for the first time in the Tour, but retreat to the fourth stage. A year later, its successor the 12th. The first tour, which concludes that the 1987 is: 97 ° in two hours, 53'11 "behind winner Stephen Roche. In the "Grande Boucle" in 1988 is the victorious faithful squire of Pedro Delgado, dates back to 1989 and its first partial victory, arrived for posting Pau in Cauterets. In 1990
triumphs in the Pyrenean stage to Luz Ardiden, and is ranked tenth in 12'47 ".
In 1991 he won his first Tour - with a great action in the Pyrenees in the company of the future to rival Chiappucci Val Louron - and two time trials, Alençon and Macon. In 1992, centers the Giro-Tour double, a company which unites him to the great Anquetil, Coppi, Merckx, Hinault and Roche, and bisser the next year.
On September 2, 1994, in the Bordeaux velodrome, breaking the record time, with 53.040 km, surpassing the record of 327 meters Scotsman Graeme Obree. But the new limit, obtained with a bicycle instead of traditional special in 2000 will approved by the UCI in the "best human performance."
TIME OF MIGUEL
to suggest that Miguel Indurain will come close in record time, the barrier of 55 km - in an attempt to 2250 meters of altitude of Mexico City - is the result of evidence that the Navarro finished the ellipse covered with Bordeaux. Over that distance, 53.040 km in sixty minutes, to convince him was his execution of the first attempt. There is still the
Indurain who can ride from start to finish on the measuring line of the roadway (more than once, his front wheel pointing left or right) but one patient, persistent training specifically allow him to make progress then that will help to improve performance.
For Indurain, in fact, is not a question of power. Miguel expresses a durable power of 550 watts, has a lung capacity of eight liters, the heart to pump 50 liters of blood per minute, the heart rate of 28 beats at rest, 190 and 150 during the maximum effort after a few seconds: a machine that scientists have called perfect, able to operate longer than those used in reports, still in Mexico, Merckx and Moser.
THE GOLDEN SUNSET
In 1995 he won his fifth and final Tour de France (Filotto failed even by Merckx, Hinault and Anquetil, and then surpassed only by Armstrong that he will win seven in a row) and the time trial at world championship Duitama, Colombia. In this edition of the World also won second place in the road test, behind compatriot Abraham Olano and blue Marco Pantani, beaten with a furious sprint. For Indurain is the third podium after the bronze in Stuttgart in 1991 (behind Bugno and Rooks) and the second silver after Oslo 1993 (behind Armstrong).
In 1996, his last professional season, winning the gold medal in the time trial at the Olympics in Atlanta. The best choice for starting a career that has seen victory in 111 races, including the Clásica de San Sebastián (1990), and the one-two consecutive in Paris-Nice (1989 and 1990) and the Tour of Catalonia (1991 and 1992). As the only worry, most of the criticism that his English, the lack of feeling for the Vuelta, which finished second in the race in 1991.
ONE SPOT FOR CYCLING
Indurain was a great propagandist of his sport. Not only because it was a pleasure to see in action a runner of her size (1.88 x 78 kg), but also because running out and has never allowed a gesture out of place, a statement peppered or a polemic, always composed also in less favorable times, a gentleman at all times. Clean the face of cycling. A commercial for the movement, even nell'addio. Unlike
Merckx, who acted with fury, and also by Hinault, Miguel sipped the pedal strokes with elegance and it is rarely seen in difficulties, let alone a crisis. And just realized that his engine was about to falter, in January 1996 fell by bike with a smile, saying "no thanks" to various positions because he felt indebted to the family. In addition to his farm, Miguel today deals with various economic activities (car dealerships, warehouses, sports), but still follows the cycling headings for treating the English press on the occasion of big international races.
Chiappucci STORY
Claudio Chiappucci, one of the most popular cyclists of the nineties, was born in Uboldo (Varese), the February 28, 1963.
climber, goes pro at the time of Carrera Roberto Visentin, Stephen Roche and Guido Bontempi.
After many years of gregarious (and the only plaque Cup trophy in 1989), leaps to the headlines in the Tour de France in 1990, entering into what appears to one of the many joints-bin that characterize the first days of the "Grande Boucle ". Instead, the action goes in port and more than 10 'ahead of the favorites. In the later stages of his former comrades escape (Steve Bauer, Frans Maassen and Ronan Pensec) retreat in the standings, he did not: indeed, wearing the yellow jersey for eight stages, from the 13th to the penultimate. The decisive time trial. Chiappucci part with 5 " ahead of the big favorite Greg Lemond, the Tour that blows them away to the still shocking, and surprising, the final seconds. Claudio is the first Italian to reach the podium in Paris since 1972, when Felice Gimondi finished second behind Eddy Merckx.
discovered the sample, the "Bottom" won the Milan-San Remo with a memorable solo flight, the Tour of the Apennines, the Gran Premio di San Sebastian, the Three Valleys Varesine, the Giro del Piemonte, the Tour of Catalonia, the Catalan Week , the Tour of the Basque Country, three stages of the Tour de France.
Lots of great and often their placings. Two times second in the Tour (behind Lemond, Indurain later) and the Tour (behind the first of snails, then Indurain), placed at the '94 World of Agrigento, won by Frenchman Luc Leblanc. In
career has had to confront - as well as Gianni Bugno, rival off the track and race - with another great champion, Miguel Indurain, who recovered in time trials, and with interest in what had to give up Sciapussì (so The French called it, with a hint of snobbery, the generous and combative Italian climber). Twice
best grimpeur Tour ('91 and '92) and Giro ('92 and '93), as soon as the road climbed was capable of companies that sent the crowd into a frenzy.
memory, the 1992 Tour, his flight of over 223 km (Of which 126 alone) and in Sestriere saw him remove all his opponents, including Bugno and Indurain, who eventually win for the second consecutive time the Tour de France.
Claudio is considered one of the athletes who have contributed most to grow cyclist Marco Pantani, the other strong personalities with whom he had several disagreements. Of those he has always had in the group. Chiappucci is what in slang is called a "Parlon, and often sends them to say. One
so like the people, divide the fans but it is sometimes frowned upon by his colleagues, at which arouses send and dislikes. In addition, running Chiappucci is a "disturbing" because it breaks the rules, breaks the balance. If you see an overpass, take. And the platoon, gladly would travel at high speeds even when quiet, like the right.
Perhaps for this reason its decline, which lasted a couple of seasons, go almost unnoticed. And when they found a rate of hematocrit is too high for him it's time to say stop.
THE
Chiappucci after the race - known as El Diablo since the time of his first races in South America - today is devoted to bicycle racing. In 2006, pending a public relations role that cycling has not yet been able to give him, did the reality show Castaway Island famous. Indurain was not there, but Claudio was second there too.
A RIVALRY WITH TWO WINNERS
Extraordinary champion, Miguel Indurain was the first rider to win five consecutive Tour de France. Long-distance rider of great talent, even exceptional time trial, he knew suffering uphill, facing at its own pace, without ever getting up from his seat. On that ground, however, were runner Daltri Claudio Chiappucci time, which will also have won little but was able to give so much in terms of emotions, and his public.
"My victories were not so beautiful, if I had not had an opponent like Chiappucci," said the Spaniard's career at the end of Diablo, perhaps his most tenacious and uncompromising opponent.
Together have created a passionate rivalry made up of large companies and memorable challenges: the class and head to the heart and courage. Cycling at its best.
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