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Chiappucci vs Indurain, the heart and head


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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Bobet vs Nencini, the heroic era of modern cycling

has not been a rivalry in the classic sense that between the French and Italian Gastone Nencini Louison Bobet, the stars of cycling at the turn of the fifties and sixties. A bit 'for reasons why a lot of character and the career of the Tuscan was for life and wealth of Palmares, below the expectations raised by its class.
had talent in abundance also Breton, a predestined pedal but never stopped working on with the same tenacity and determination. Qualities that not even lacked the Lion of the Mugello, which just could not save. In racing as in life.
Their big battleground was the Tour of Italy in 1957, an edition full of emotions and that will be decided on the very edge of the latter. Nineteen, to be precise.

BIG CLASH, THE TURN OF 1957
A year later stage from the horde who delivered Charly Gaul to the myth, it is the strongest climber Bondone make Luxembourg the big loser of the Giro. The Tour of Italy in 1957 it won the Gastone Nencini, who takes revenge after so the insult suffered two years ago, when Magni and Bent had attacked him, taking advantage of its drilling.
Again the Giro is decided in the final and so sensational, with the "Lion of the Mugello" at the end of the check against the new rival: the Frenchman Louison Bobet. In
Como-Bondone, 19th stage, Gaul is pink jersey. In places Ospitaletto the leader of stops to fulfill a need, "physiological". And that's when the attack is unleashed Bobet, which engage and Nencini neoprofessionista Ercole Baldini. The group broke up, Gaul remained behind and eventually will come on top of the Bondone with the first ten minutes of posting. Nencini takes the pink jersey and then defend it until the end, with 19 "lead over Bobet, second. Sounds like the beginning
a long and passionate rivalry, but the career of Tuscany - which will reach the pinnacle by winning the Tour de France in 1960 - will not keep all the promises.


NENCINI STORY
Bilancino Fiorentino, Barberino del Mugello, where he was born on March 1, 1930, Gastone Nencini won in 24 career races including the Tour of Italy stand out in 1957 and the Tour de France 1960. In the three Valleys trophy also Varesine of 1956, the Tour of Calabria in 1957 and the Grand Prix in Nice in 1960. Excellent
passista-climber and downhill skier, a professional from 1953 to 1965, is nicknamed "the Lion of the Mugello" for the courage and the fury that competitive running led him to give everything, without calculation, sometimes bringing unpredictable attacks and even foolish. And on many occasions simply unlucky.
in Lugano in 1953 comes to a step from the amateur world title. Alone in the lead, after several escape attempts, it reached its goal on another blue, Riccardo Filippi, who then beat in the sprint.
In 1955 he lost by a narrow margin, and in a non-sporty, the Tour of Italy. In the pink jersey in two stages from the end, still on foot by a puncture and is attacked by Fiorenzo Magni, who then win that edition, and Fausto Coppi. The two defectors arrive in San Pellegrino without the group, including fellow Nencini, try to at least going to take them back.
Gaston goes back in 1957 thanks to the attack - led by Bobet, Geminiani and Baldini - the pink jersey Gaul, and the courageous descent of the pass. The victory appears to be proper recognition for the lack of success of the first two years. At the 1958 World
Gaston plays an important work for the fellow in blue Ercole Baldini, world champion in front of Reims just Bobet, according to 2'09 "from Romagna.
Thanks to its extraordinary quality of downhill Nencini won the Tour in 1960, in the edition which does not indicate a successful stop, but he won when his main rival, Frenchman Roger Riviere, in an attempt to keep up with the wheel sharply, falls - with tragic consequences - in a ravine.

THE TOUR OF 1960 The
Roger Rivière at the start of the Tour de France of 1960 is in condition prodigious. But in the end, unfortunately the image that remains indelible in the memories of all is that of the Frenchman lying motionless on the branches, down the slope. escarpment in the chase during the yellow jersey Nencini, during the stage-Millau Avignon, the French make a wrong turn down the slope of the hill of Perjuret. All for one week after the race, since there just made explosive by the imposing Rivière.
between Lorient and Saint-Malo had launched a tough offensive against the partner Henri Anglade, at that moment leader of the championship. After the success in Lorient and Pau, Roger aimed to limit the damage to the Alps to play my best in the 19th stage time trial in Besançon from Pontarlier. But the damn fall will prevent him from play. And so it is up to Nencini triumph in yellow at the Parc des Princes, with 5'2 "on another Italian, Graziano Battistini. The flowers of the winner will then be deposited on the hospital bed on which lies Rivière, whose career had been broken down in the crowds.

THE EARLY SUNSET
won the "Grande Boucle", although only thirty, for a premature start Nencini the sudden decline. The reluctance to submit to strict rules the life of an athlete and some unfortunate episode (on all the disastrous fall on the cross of Calenzano followed by a long break and a difficult recovery) led him to four years of melancholy sunset.
In 1965, the last of 13 seasons in pro ', is called by Bartolozzi Filotex to do for the young hen. Closed career, is the sports director of professional teams, and Springoil Max Mayer. In 1969, his runner, Claudio Michelotto, close to victory in the Tour of Italy finishing in second place, 3'35 "behind winner Gimondi.
Nencini died in Florence on February 1, 1980 for an incurable disease that, in a few months, it had undermined the very strong temper.


Bobet STORY
Born in Brittany, Saint-Méen-le-Grand, March 12, 1925, Louis Bobet is one of the foremost artists of cycling gold of the 50s. Thanks to his temperament as a fighter and extraordinary courage, collect a prize list of the most important in the history of cycling and has become one of the most loved by the French riders.
When Louis-Pierre-Marie is 21 months, hanging on the fireplace for Christmas is a biciclettina on which, three months later, begin to pedal. Abandoned
loves youth sports - football (to be promising midfielder right) and table tennis (played in the OCC, a company which also includes father and mother Celine Louis), continues working in the bakery his father, getting up at five in the morning to move bags of flour a quintal. A work that strengthens the parent awards and a racing bike "Stella."
Louis Jr. reads all of the Tour and is passionate about the exploits of Bartali at the "Grande Boucle" in 1938. Meanwhile, he runs with the so-called "non-redundant" and in 1942 won the first race, in Montauban. A year later in Lamballe beats all in a race official.
During the Second World War, joining a resistance group in 1944 that captures an ambulance and prisoner is a German colonel. Participate in activities organized to flush out Nazi troops from Lorient. Is enlisted in the 41st Regiment Infantry and learn discipline.
amateur champion of France in 1946, passes professional a year later, just 22 years old, and gets away, May 12, the unexpected triumph in the classic Boucles de la Seine 260 km, removing all before entering the rink with a Buffalo advantage of over 6 '.
technical director Leo Veron convenes for the Tour de France - then reserved for national teams - clashes with the harshness of the Alps, and was forced to retire. It is on this occasion that he is saddled with the nickname Louison, when, after a fall in the stage of Digne, indulges in a crying on the side of the road and retired.
In 1948, he again the "Grande Boucle", called the new Maurice Archambaud dt, this time with the goal to win, but the infection in the foot prevents him from keeping the yellow jersey, won the Cannes-Sanremo. The ambitious champion Breton, who had won the stage in Biarritz, seemed destined to fly to Paris in yellow jersey and instead will be swept away by Hurricane Bartali, ruler of three consecutive stages when crossing the Alps The French resist, however, until eventually finishing 4th at 32 'from Ginettaccio that, ten years after the first success, he returned the king of France.
Bobet has better luck in the races online. In 1950 he won his first great success as a professional French National Championship. The following year, there is the Milan-San Remo. Bevilacqua mocked by the Italian at the finish line of the Paris-Roubaix, Louison draws at the end of the season by winning the Giro di Lombardia. But the appointment with the "Queen of the pave" has only been postponed.
skipped the Tour of '52 for an error in preparation, in that at the start of 1953 Bobet is well aware of its strength and supported by a team at his disposal. Sbaraglia with disarming ease the opposition of the Swiss compatriot Jean Robic and Hugo Koblet; the Izoard, which had been fatal in its first appearance at the Tour, this time established him as the king of rock climbers. And so, the sixth attempt, Breton finally wins his first Tour de France.
1954 and for the year dell'apoteosi Louison, not only repeating the triumph in the "Grande Boucle", this time beating the English climber Federico Bahamontes right on the big climbs, but also won the World Championship in Solingen, Germany , before the Swiss Fritz Schaer.
Bobet is now assumed the role of an idol of the French. Tour of '55, offers fans one of the most beautiful pages in the history of cycling, undermined by the emerging Charly Gaul, the Alps, which has trimmed a quarter of an hour of posting, Louison seems on the verge of collapse, even because of a painful wound to soprassella. On the day of ascent to Mont Ventoux, two-time French champion, also won that year's Tour of Flanders, shows off his huge class and all. And the third success in the Tour enters the elite of famous.
In 1956, without having disposed of the aftermath of surgery to soprassella suffered the previous November, participate in the Vuelta but retreat and then must give up the Tour de France. Save the season, however imposing in the Paris-Roubaix, after putting down the shots to repeat the Belgian Rik Van Steenbergen.
The 1957 is a year for the trans black, studded with four second places: at the National Criterium, the Belgian World of Waregem (Van Steenbergen won dall'idolo home), the Paris-Tours (behind another Belgian, Fred De Bruyne) and, above all, the Tour of Italy.
In that edition of the Giro Bobet was beaten by Gastone Nencini for only 19 seconds. The French team, however, the charge of misconduct Italian fans, who are accused of pushing, climbing, their riders and the obstruction of those opponents. Bobet closes the season without a win and the next, with consecutive second place at the World Cup (won in Reims, France, from light Ercole Baldini), marks the beginning of the decline to Louison.
the end of his career, however, is evidenced by a non-competitive event: Bobet decide the following automobile accident in which the victim December 15, 1961, in Montry, with his brother John, returning from a charity event in Brussels. By Jean opened a factory in thalassotherapy. He died of cancer, in Biarritz, March 13, 1983, the day after completing 58 years.


DAWN OF A NEW ERA
Brave, strong-willed, meticulous, forward: these are recurring adjectives Louison Bobet. A worker who was able to build the bicycle champion, day after day, with an innate ability to suffer in the race and out.
Rules aside, the same features for its fleeting rival Gastone Nencini, just pure talent but in the race attacked perhaps even when not needed. And as they went close to the severe restrictions of the typical life of an athlete.
Together they nevertheless marked an era, one that marked the transition from cycling hero of World War II to the modern. Giving, in the process, companies and memorable emotions.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmail.com

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Bugno vs. Chiappucci, the most loved by Italians


Bugno or Chiappucci? A rivalry that perhaps it is consumed more in the newspapers that in a race but has the same passionate fans. Claudia and John, friends, enemies, in the early 90's have divided Italy as in the best traditions of our cycling. And what happened to the protagonists of the great duels of the past, right to enter one of the most loved by Italians.

AGAINST INDURAIN only the crumbs
Bartali and Coppi, Gimondi and Motta, Moser and Saronni: Cycling - especially our - lives of duels, major confrontations: against each other. The fans need a kind of derby, to catch fire as a victory for their favorite rub your hands for the debacle of the opponent. And if the rivalries are not there, if they invent. At least in part has been so perhaps for that between Gianni Bugno and Claudio Chiappucci, two very different personalities, two samples, which were often crossed in early nineties. A rivalry that could have been hotter if he had not had to deal with the excessive power of Miguel Indurain. A champion who, in big stage races, the ones that bring out more fans, leaving the other for the crumbs. And it's hard to get excited for a game already decided, if not for the second and third place ... neither friends nor enemies


If you have not been bitter rivals, at least not in the classic sense, Bugno and Chiappucci some have never loved. Too different, character and run. And in their stories. Gianni has already arrived in cycling with the spotlight, as the champion to raise and then celebrate as predestined, Claudio, however, the spotlight has always had conquistarsele, elbowing, day after day. The
Brianza Brugg, Switzerland Italian, could not stand, the Diablo, the inspiration, the bombastic statements that mess up that order, the tranquility that Hans was forced inside and outside the circus of cycling.
The Varese, however, suffer to Bugno, that air detached but apparently did not prevent John, crystalline talent to win when there were more.
Their has always been a friendly but distant, knowledge among colleagues, rather than adversarial. Hard to say if and how much it is estimated, beyond the official statements. Certainly not hated. Preferred, where possible, ignore each other, keep each on his way. And when they crossed, the two must be got along the best interests of the case were his own or that community.
If the legendary stage of the Tour '92, has helped Bugno Chiappucci, it was not to tease him, but for a tactical abstruse. And, on the other hand, the lack of joy Chiappucci in blue, Benidorm '92, for a rainbow of Bugno, was due more to the bitterness of defeat to win the envy of the companion.

SIGNS OF PEACE AND
the end of their careers, we witnessed some signs of peace, to some, albeit veiled declarations of esteem. First, two-time World Champion celebrates the grit, character, courage to Chiappucci. Then the Gianburrasca of two wheels - on the eve of a World Cup to be run by the protagonist finally - send a message to Bugno: "In competition, if it comes to helping John, I'm ready to do so, because he would be the first to give me a hand, if things work out well for me. "
rivals, but always with mutual respect for those who know the toil and sacrifices inherent in any undertaking obtained by bike.
Chiappucci In '91, author, on the hill, one click commanding wins in solitude the Milan-San Remo, Bugno replicate the success of the previous edition. Without scratching the fair play, Jack, with the group arrived at 1 ', applaud the outcome of the Super Classic, because "however, won an Italian."
more vibrant tones that Claudio used to pay for those behind, that they began to shoot when he believes it was not necessary. As in July '92, in the stage of Sestriere. Going back up after many years, "El Diablo" has not forgotten: "I was angry with the Italians who had chased me - remember Claudio - The Tour spent in Italy and everyone should root for a successful blue. Including ... Bugno.


UPDATED STORY
Born February 14, 1964 in Brugg, Switzerland, to Italian parents emigrated for work, Gianni Bugno started racing at 14 years. Cyclists Monzesi grows in student achievement and the Italian Championship individual and team, the Italian Championship as an amateur second series (1983) and the Grand Prix of Liberation (1985), a springboard to the professional. In fact, in September, all'Atala, led by Franco Cribiori. Even in pro
'ascent is constant: 3 wins in 1986 (Tour of the Apennines, in front of Francesco Moser, and those of Friuli and Piedmont), 5 the following year (a round of Trentino, a Giro Apennines and the first place and in the Coppa Sabatini in Camaiore but also forfeit the 17th stage in the Giro), 8 in 1988 (including the Giro di Calabria, the Apennines tris, the stage of the Tour Limoges, during rookie after breaking his collarbone in the Giro occorsagli, and a triptych of premondiale of Verona). It is that, his first season at the Chateau d'Ax ds Gianni Stanga.
1988 was a lean year: there's the success of the Three Valleys Varesine eighth place (the best of the blue) to the French world of Chambery.
In 1989 only get three hits: the stage of the Tour of Italy Prato, Varese and the Three Valleys GP Marostica. Tour misses partial successes, but much improved its ranking: 11 º 24'12 "from leader Greg Lemond
In the winter of 1989, the turning point that will become a 'big': meeting with the Courts, Assistant Stanga, who manages to give security in the race.
1990 is the year of the explosion, 13 wins Milan-Sanremo, Giro del Trentino, Giro d'Italy (also in pink and three partial victories). On his third consecutive Tour, finished seventh (at 9'39 "from Lemond), but with two wins, Alpe d'Huez and Bordeaux. Conquer the World Cup and was third in the world of Japanese Utsunomija.
Also in 1991, but with the new team Gatorade-Chateau d'Ax, won 13 races. Among these three stages in the Tour, the encore l'Alpe d'Huez in the Tour (finished second in 3'36 "by Indurain), the Clásica San Sebastián, and in blue, the World Championships in Stuttgart.

iris STUTTGART
The 1991 German World Cup circuit is not transcendental, slightly less than 16 km and a climb back to 6 but cycling.
The race started fast under a beautiful summer sun, all in groups of up to half of the race with the blues, Guido Bontempi all, very careful.
try Chiappucci action at long range, leaving him with ten, but the effort fades. After many skirmishes
you reach the last lap. At the sound of the bell triggered the French and Italian Maurizio Fondriest Marc Madiot. It could be the decisive run, with the blue as a logical favorite, but the person remains trans wheel action terminates along the ramps Horerbopsen. We then test Golz, which runs into the house, but no luck. Moments of uncertainty, the world lives the decisive moments, the gerrachie jump and those who still have energy to go out. Start Bugno, Indurain, and Rooks Meija; have sufficient space and strength and flies toward the finish line.
The sprint is a monologue Bugno, great progression and a bit of pathos when, too early, put your hands up in triumph from the handlebars. At a glance it seems that the Dutch and English have reassembled in the finishing straight, but John is a world champion with the apparent ease of the greats. Stuttgart is tinged with blue and offers to cycling Italian one of the most beautiful pages.

ON A RAINBOW TO BENIDORM 1992
The World 1992 takes place in Spain. Hot day, challenging circuit, a little less than 22 km. The rainbow jersey you conquer the lair of the wolf, Miguel Indurain, the first and third year course on his favorite streets. The first few laps
quiet. The first real action is in the eighth round, players Jeker, Rominger, Alonso, Zarrabeitia, Nevens, blue Chioccioli, Niederberger and Roche. On the climb of Alto de Jeker Finestraat yields, while Gonzales and Leblanc report on the group's head. Time two laps and the heat and the weight of the flight put an end to the bold attempt, and the best come together. A
about 40 km from the conclusion Chiappucci, Indurain, Rominger and the fast attack Jalabert at the bottom. It looks like the good escape, but the presence of French calm minds: no one wants to arrive and be escorted to beat in the sprint. And so the action is shipwrecked. Last
around, attempts are suesseguono, until the command escape in 17 including Bugno and the beautiful Perini, respectively, the defending champion and his loyal follower. The danger is French: they are five Bleus the lead in the peloton and among them is the specter Jalabert. The comrades protect him to give him the sprint, but "Jaja" has to deal with the fantastic pedal stroke of Bugno and strength of Perini. The sprint is a all blue masterpiece: the pilot to perfection Gianni Piacentino, which is repeated in his own way. Laurent Jalabert was second, third is the Russian Dimitri Konychev.

into the sunset
World aside, the 1992 is variable. Bugno was third in the Tour - the first vacation he had sacrificed the objective of participation in the Tour - and the momentum for the second rainbow jersey, winning the Tours of Milan, Lazio and Emilia and Turin. The 1993 is the year
Fogging: 18 ° in the Giro, the Tour 20 °, and six minor hits, the crisis caused by the separation from his wife Vincent, who gave him a son, Alexei.
The next year is the mcchia coffee color of his career: he runs with Polti, won the Flanders, is 8 ° in the Giro, he retires to the Tour, but the blow comes on the eve of World of Agrigento. Positive for caffeine in Agostoni. Farewell tris world.

Those spots (COFFEE) FOR TOO
The world championships of 1994 are held in Italy, Agrigento. Gianni Bugno points to the third jersey. His year is not to remember, but with the Monza - for better or for worse - the odds are impossible.
Gianni won the Tour of Flanders, but the moral, as usual, is fluctuating. To make a dangerous outsider, however, are two factors: it is not among the favorites in Sicily and the circuit seems suitable to its characteristics. But
a tile hits the blue team. At the end of the Coppa Agostoni, August 17, Bugno is found positive for caffeine. The suspension is two years. Those who know him will swear their innocence, claiming the habit of Gianni, before the races, to consume cups of coffee one after the other. According to others, caffeine was used to hide other, much less innocuous substances.
The CAS, the Court of Sport in Lausanne, reduces the stop in three months thanks to a legal technicality: the power on it to professional athletes and their federations to CONI. And according to the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) is the maximum suspension for use of caffeine.
Whatever the case, a stain never completely erased in the career of Bugno and a page that would have been better not to write.

LAST SEASONS
In 1995, the MG-Technogym Giancarlo Ferretti, won five races, including the Italian championship and the Tour of the Mediterranean. But brilliance and stimuli are dwindling. 4 wins in 1996 hits (one stage in the Giro). In 1997, the Mapei and won a stage in the Tour of Malaysia. A success in 1998, the Vuelta. Then, after the 12th pick in the world and Lombardy, says goodbye to the races. THE FAREWELL PARTY


seigiornisti A challenge to a scratch test. So leave the scene, on the eve of 35 years, February 13, 1999 in Milan, the Italian cyclist's largest class of the decade. In 14 seasons as a pro, 71 hits, on any terrain. To frame the career Indurain just a phrase: "It was the strongest of us all." Investiture, which is worth a thousand trophies.


Chiappucci STORY
climber, small (1.72 x 65 kg) and ungainly appearance, Claudio Chiappucci was born in Uboldo (Varese) February 28, 1963. Professional since 1985, before becoming "el Diablo", with cold runner, spent the Carrera a long follower.
The first success in the Cup Placci (1989), then there's the Milan-San Remo with a solo flight, the Tour of the Apennines, the GP of San Sebastián, the Three Valleys Varesine the Tour Piedmont, the Tour of Catalonia, the Catalan Week, the Tour of the Basque Country, three stages of the Tour is controversial and podiums in series: the second in the Giro twice ('91 and '92) and the "Grande Boucle" ( in '90 behind Lemond, Indurain back in '92, plus the third place in '91) and the World of Agrigento, won by Leblanc.

TOUR 1990, Lady Beware
The great cycling finds that champion almost by accident that still does not know it. Tour In '90, the first stage, in Claudio enters one of the many joints-bin that characterize the "Grande Boucle". The group leaves do, but the fugitives - with Italian, Steve Bauer, Frans Maassen and Ronan Pensec - will reach the bottom and with 10 'lead. Chiappucci dresses in yellow and there is 8 days, before succumbing in the penultimate stage time trial to the overwhelming power of Greg Lemond, who on the final podium in Paris is the first in front of Carneades Varese.

SETRA 1992, COMPANY OF OTHER TIMES
But the real enterprise, a rider from another era, the central Chiappucci the Tour in 1992. In the polka dot jersey of best climber and historic landmark, the 13th of Sestriere: a memorable flight, which lasted seven hours, 223 km to the attack of which 126 alone, before winning with his arms raised after an ascent of 11 km average gradient of 6.2% but with features that exceed 10%. Claudio
view Iseran salutes the company with which, at the 14th km, had concocted the action. Indurain leave it, but when the advantage reaches 5 'Bugno tries to mend the breach. The Spaniard, Vona and the American Hampsten are queued. On the Mont Cenis, Chiappucci passes with 3'33 on Bugno and Indurain, 4'03 on the other two. A 10 km to go, Jack collapses. Hampsten is in crisis, Vona resists. Indurain reacts, but also the 2 km wide navarro must surrender to the superiority of the hero of the day, first in front of Vona and 1'45 "for Miguel, which pulls the yellow surprise at the French Pascal Lino. For English Banesto will the first of two shotguns Giro-Tour.

AGRIGENTO 1994, THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY NOT
In 1994, running in Italy, Agrigento, the 61st edition of the World Championships, on a selective route that spans the Valley of the Temples, 13 km to be repeated 19 times.
The first is to try the Colombian Raul Montana, which remains in front of a hundred miles. In the defining moment, the Bad luck against Gianluca Bortolami, the blue in better shape. A puncture, while the brawl broke out, he takes away from the games. At the command remains
fifteen elements present Ghirotto, Cenghialta, Cassani and Sorensen. Chiappucci pay a moment of inattention, then dragging the hub within the French Virenque and Leblanc. The Dane Sorensen attempts to force action on a tour of the conclusion, but no luck. The last step, the ramp arrival, stretch and our trans Leblanc, generous Ghirotto. Chiappucci with Virenque wheel chasing a few tens of meters, when the climb gets tougher Luc Leblanc off the Dormouse es'invola to success, the first of a French 14 years after that of Bernard Hinault. Chiappucci and Virenque Clutching the Ghirotto exhausted, then the fourth, and stood on the podium at 9 "from the winner.

DECLINE
The last two years are, however, inglorious career. Caught with the rate of hematocrit dancer when Chiappucci stops running in a few realize it. A pity, because it was a gladiator who has given so much to cycling. Perhaps more than he took.
was not a computer, or loved to make friends by making concessions or gifts. This sometimes annoyed his colleagues, then there is nothing to forgive. The people always loved him but because Claudio gave running the show. Needless to wonder what it could achieve by providing, in addition to an exceptional strength, instead of diplomacy that has distinguished other captains. We'll never know, perhaps it is wrong to ask ourselves: why then would no longer be him, el diablo Uboldo.


GOOD RIVALRY
A healthy rivalry, which has so well made to the cycling of the 90's: Bugno and Chiappucci, with those characters, and especially so with that understanding and interpreting different races, have made history. Their wheels have crossed on every field, especially in the Giro and the Tour and while often running for second place behind the great Indurain, have warmed the hearts of fans as not happened since the days of Moser and Saronni. Gianni and Claudio, the class or grit? Impossible not to take sides.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmail.com