Froome is crowned in the 100th Tour and Quintana resurrects the Colombian cycling - 1 views
started by mo xiaoxiao on 28 Dec 13
started by mo xiaoxiao on 28 Dec 13
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In a year in which the prize list of the major tours completers Italian Vincenzo Nibali , winner of the Giro , and American Chris Horner , 41 , who won the Tour of Spain , the big news was the emergence of Quintana . batman cycling jersey
' The pearl of Boyacá ' , 23 , won a stage , was second overall and won the trophy for best young and the best climber in his first Tour de France, what triggered their aspirations for future editions of the world's most important race.
His sensational role made him the highest ranked Latin American Tour history and the first rider to get the white jersey ( best young ) and red dots ( best climber ) in the same issue .
Genuine Product from the lineage of climbers coffee country , Quintana , Spanish racing team Movistar , measures 1.67 meters in height and 56 kilos in weight and was the most difficult for the final winner , Froome rival.
The Kenyan-born rider was crowned winner one year after being the best rider for Wiggins . Then , it became clear that he had legs to win the race in 2013 and was the team leader and the Sky , the world's most powerful cycling team .
And he did not disappoint , with a haul of three stages , won overall with great authority , with more than four minutes apart on Quintana and after wear the yellow jersey for 14 stages.
In the Giro , Nibali was won , who won two stages and excelled in more than four minutes to another Colombian Rigoberto Uran , Sky and another member of the visible faces of the new coffee cycling.
The great South American moment was endorsed by another Colombian , Carlos Betancur , who finished fifth and won the best young rider 's jersey , and Rafael ANDRIATO Brazilian , who won in intermediate sprints .
Was tighter classification of the Tour of Spain , in which the veteran Horner gave the big surprise and took victory ahead of a favorite as Nibali , who took out 37 seconds. The podium was completed Spanish Alejandro Valverde.
Out of the big three in the classic , was the Swiss Fabian Cancellara who dominated , to be two of the five ' Monuments ' of the course. In the spring , he won the Tour of Flanders and Paris -Roubaix .monton cycling The German Gerald Ciolek won the Milan -San Remo and the Irishman Daniel Martin in Liege- Bastogne- Liege.
In the autumn , the Tour of Lombardia was won for the second time the Spanish Joaquim ' Itching' Rodriguez, who demonstrated his ability to shine in one-day races and also grand rounds to finish third in the Tour and fourth in the Vuelta.
The veteran cyclist Russian team Katusha , 34, completed the course with the top of the UCI World Tour , ahead of Chris Froome . The ' Itching' achieved this distinction for the second consecutive year.
But the great year of Catalan rider did not have his cherry , losing the World Road Championship in Florence in the last meters before the Portuguese Rui Costa , who won the sprint .
Undoubtedly one of the images of the year, 'Itching ' with the silver medal in the neck, could not hold back the tears for lost chance in the last minute when it seemed he had everything to gain favor . His compatriot Valverde won the bronze.
In the category of trial , the victory went to the German Tony Martin . Wiggins, with the silver and Cancellara , with bronze , completed the podium .
2013 was also the year that cycling has lived hangover earthquake that struck him in 2012, when the UCI decided to dispossess Lance Armstrong to seven consecutive Tours ( 1999-2005) for doping.
Finally, on January 17, 2013 , the U.S. admitted having used several banned substances during his career in an interview with Oprah Winfrey . The whole world witnessed the final collapse of one of the great myths and cycling closed one of the darkest pages of its history....