He Giro de Italia It appears on the cycling calendar. The Pink race It has traditionally resisted ours being, by far, the scenario where we have least won compared to the Tour de France or the Tour of Spain.
One of the factors that prevented national cycling registering its name before resided that the Back to Spain coincided in the calendar with the Giro until 1995 when it moved at the end of August.
Alberto Contador and Miguel Indurain visiting a brand for winners of the Italian turningMARK
To date, only two Spanish cyclists have made the Maglia Rosa: Miguel Indurain and Alberto countedr. Both, maybe the best Return Spaniards in history, had to face great competition to succeed Italy. Others stayed with honey on the lips such as cases of Purito Rodríguez, Carlos Sastre, David Arroyo, Abraham Olano, Quique Gutiérrez, Francisco Galdós or José Manuel Fuente. All of them ended seconds in a race that has been forbidden Coto of Italian cycling for several decades.
Indurain inaugurated the Spanish record in 1992 with an unappealable triumph over Claudio Chiappucci. In 1993, ‘Miguelón’ would repeat the story winning ahead Ungrumov y chiopucci, although the letta put him against the strings in a chronoscalada in Sestriere Winning this race for just 58 seconds, the shortest margin of his career.
15 years after the last triumph of Indurain, Alberto Contador He appeared in Italy outside after changing his calendar at the last minute. The Astana team was vetoed by the organization of the Tour de France and the Pinteño had to go for a pink maglia who had it very complicated before Riccardo ‘La cobra’ rich. The young Italian, later dispossessed of his results by doping, made Spanish sweat to Spanish to get the victory by a margin of less than two minutes.
Contador I would win the 2011 turnbut their results were invalidated by a positive by clembuterol. The Spanish would compensate for that thorn in 2015 starring in an epic battle against the duo formed by Fabio Aru and a very young Mikel Landa which ended third. The Pinteño made a memorable comeback in the mortirolo After a mechanical breakdown advancing the entire platoon in climb until reaching their rivals.
