Indurain
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Selected Placings
Vuelta a Valencia: stage 2, 2nd and 3rd overall
Tour de Romandie: prologue, 2nd
Giro d’Italia: stage 1 first sector, 2nd; stage 14, 2nd
Vuelta a los Valles Mineros: stage 1, 2nd
Spanish National Championships (RR): 2nd
Tour de France: stage 11, 2nd; stage 19, 2nd; stage 10, 3rd; stage 16, 3rd; stage 15, 5th
World Championships: 2nd
Volta a Catalunya: stage 1 (TT), 2nd and 4th overall
GP Gippingen: 8th
Liège–Bastogne–Liège: 51st.
Vuelta al País Vasco: 54th overall
Milano–Sanremo: 123rd
1994: TEAM: BANESTO
Wins
Vuelta a Valencia: stage six (TT)
Tour de l’Oise: stage three, second sector (TT) and overall
Tour de France: stage 9 (TT) and overall
Trofeo Castilla y León: stage 3 (TT)
Selected Placings
Vuelta a Valencia: 2nd overall
Giro d’Italia: 3rd overall; stage 18 (TT), 2nd; stage 1, second sector, 3rd
Tour de France: prologue, 2nd; stage 11, 2nd; stage 18, 2nd; stage 19, 3rd; stage 17, 5th
Tour de Romandie: prologue, 3rd
Milano–Sanremo: 31st
Other achievements:
Hour Record: 53.040 kms
1995: TEAM: BANESTO
Wins
Vuelta a Aragón: stage 4, second sector (TT)
Vuelta a los Valles Mineros: stage 4
Vuelta a la Rioja: stage 1, first sector, points classification and overall
Vuelta a Asturias: stage 1 (TT) and stage 5
Midi Libre: overall
Dauphiné Libéré: stage 3 (TT) and overall
Tour de France: stage 8 (TT), stage 19 (TT) and overall
Vuelta a Galicia: stage 1 and overall
World Time Trial Championships
Selected Placings
Vuelta a la Rioja: stage 2, 2nd
Midi Libre: stage 6 (TT), 2nd; stage 1, 3rd; stage 3, 3rd
Dauphiné Libéré: stage 1, 2nd; prologue, 3rd; stage 4, 3rd; stage 6, 3rd
Tour de France: stage 7, 2nd; stage 9, 2nd; stage 10, 2nd; stage 13, 3rd
World Championships (RR): 2nd
Vuelta a los Valles Mineros: stage 1, 3rd and 3rd overall
Vuelta a Asturias: 3rd overall
Classique des Alpes: 6th
Spanish National Championships (RR): 6th
Clásica San Sebastián: 9th
Milano–Sanremo: 132nd
1996: TEAM: BANESTO
Wins
Volta ao Alentejo: stage 1 (TT), stage 5 and overall
Vuelta a Asturias: stage 1 (TT) and overall
Euskal Bizikleta: stage 5, points classification and overall
Dauphiné Libéré: stage 5 (TT), stage 6, points classification and overall
Olympic Games Time Trial
Selected Placings
Vuelta a Aragón: stage 2, 2nd
Euskal Bizikleta: stage 3, 2nd; stage 4 second sector, 2nd
Tour de France: stage 20 (TT), 2nd; stage 8 (TT), 5th; stage 9, 5th
Vuelta a los Puertos: 2nd
Vuelta a Burgos: 2nd overall and stage 4 (TT), 2nd
Vuelta a Asturias: stage 5, 3rd
Dauphiné Libéré: stage 2, 3rd
Vuelta a España: stage 10 (TT), 3rd
Classique des Alpes: 8th
Tour de France: 11th overall
Clásica San Sebastián, 12th
Olympic Road Race: 26th
Milano–Sanremo: 115th
Grand Tour abandons: Vuelta a España
Indurain, aged 12, with his brother and cousins at the CC Villavés team presentation in 1976. Bottom row, fifth from right Miguel Indurain, then to his left, his brother, Prudencio and cousins Javier, Luis and Daniel Indurain.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CC VILLAVÉS
Pepe Barruso, co-founder and president of the CC Villavés, in front of the clubhouse with one of Miguel Indurain’s first ever bikes.
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Indurain and the rest of the Reynolds pro team let their hair down at their training camp in Panticosa, prior to the 1985 season. José Luis Laguia, the team’s top rider, is seated on the far left, Indurain, just 20, third from left at the back.
PHOTO COURTESY OF EDUARDO GONZÁLEZ SALVADOR
Indurain leading the Tour de la CEE, his breakthrough race victory, in 1986. 1984 Olympic gold medallist Alexi Grewal of the USA is on the far left, KAS rider, Patrice Esnault, who ran Indurain the closest, on Indurain’s right.
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1990: Indurain with Banesto team-mate Pedro Delgado, the year before Indurain took over the leadership of the squad in the Tour de France. In many ways, Delgado acted as a trailblazer for Indurain.
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En route to victory in the 1991 Tour de France, Indurain’s first, alongside team-mate, Dominique Arnaud.
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A crunch moment on the Galibier in the 1991 Tour de France when LeMond, the double defending champion, cracks on the climb. The final phase of Indurain’s rise to power in the Tour is about to begin.
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At the height of his power: Indurain blasts to victory in the 1992 Luxembourg time trial, the win that netted him that year’s Tour de France and established him as the dominating force in the Grand Tours for the 1990s.
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Banesto team-mate Prudencio Indurain (R) pulls the ear of his brother Miguel during the 12th stage of the Tour de France from Isola to Marseille, 16 July 1993. Prudencio was Indurain’s room-mate for several of his Grand Tour wins.
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1994: Moments after breaking the Hour Record in Bordeaux velodrome, Indurain stands holding the blackboard that indicates the distance he achieved.
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18 July 1994: Indurain rides with Spanish national champion Abraham Olano during the 15th stage of the Tour de France cycling race. Olano was widely viewed as Indurain’s successor but, despite a hugely successful career, did not live up to Spain’s impossibly high expectations in the Tour de France.
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Indurain leads a chase group behind Marco Pantani on the road to Guzet Neige during the 1995 Tour de France. Behind him is ONCE’s Alex Zülle, second overall in that year’s race, top mountain climbers Richard Virenque and Claudio Chiappucci, and (in green) Laurent Jalabert – arguably Indurain’s toughest rival in that Tour.
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Five out of five: Indurain, en route for Paris on the last stage of the 1995 Tour, his fifth and final Tour victory.
GETTY IMAGES, MIKE POWELL/STAFF
Indurain raises one arm to celebrate team-mate Abraham Olano’s controversial victory in the 1995 World Championships. Indurain himself took silver ahead of Italy’s Marco Pantani.
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3 August 1996: Abraham Olano, Miguel Indurain and Chris Boardman stand on the medal rostrum for the men’s time trial event. It was Indurain’s last win, and revived hopes he might continue racing after his defeat in the Tour.
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The end of the road: Miguel Indurain is helped back to his hotel, El Capitán in Asturias, after abandoning the 1996 Vuelta. His professional career was effectively over.
© MARCA/OFFSIDE
Indurain with the top three finishers in the eponymous Grand Prix in Navarre: [from left] Sergio Henao, second, Ion Izagirre, first, and Moreno Moser, third.
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May 2016: La Perla hotel in Corvara, nestled between the jagged pinnacles of Alta Badia, where Indurain was hosting rides for customers of cycling tour operator In Gamba, which runs exclusive tours from the hotel.
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; Bibliography
Interviews:
My thanks to all those interviewed for their time and their insights. In alphabetical order:
Dominique Arnaud, 7 April 2016
Manu Arrieta, 6 April 2016
José Luis Benito Urraburu, 10 July 2015
Pepe Barruso, 14 November 2015
Chris Boardman, 19 December 2015
Alberto Contador, 11 January 2017
Pedro Delgado, 18 December 2015
Josu Garai, 13 January 2017
Eduardo González Salvador, 15 January 2016
Juan Carlos González Salvador, 6 April 2016
Luis Guinea, 16 January 2017
José Luis Jaimerena, 15 December 2015
Prudencio Indurain, 16 December 2015
Jean-Marie Leblanc, 17 April 2015
Abraham Olano, 14 October 2015
Christian Prudhomme, 22 April 2015
Manolo Saiz, 6 April 2016
Eusebio Unzué, 14 December 2015
Jacinto Vidarte, 1 November 2016
Books
(Published in English)
Sam Abt, Champion: Bicycle Racing in the Age of Indurain (Bicycle Books, 1993)
Lucy Fallon and Adrian Bell, Viva La Vuelta! (Mousehold, 2005)
Alasdair Fotheringham, The End of the Road (Bloomsbury, 2016)
William Fotheringham, Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling (Yellow Jersey Press, 2015)
William Fotheringham, Racing Hard (Faber & Faber, 2013)
Sean Kelly, Hunger (Peloton Publishing, 2013)
Richard Moore, Etape: 20 Great Stages from the Modern Tour de France (HarperSport, 2014)
Matt Rendell, The Death of Marco Pantani (Hachette, 2006)
Bjarne Riis, Riis: Stages of Light and Dark (Vision Sports, 2012)
(Published in Spanish)
Javier Bodegas y Juan Dorronsoro, Con Ficha de la Española (Urizar, 2003)
Dani Cabrero y Sergio Fuente, El Clas. El Equipo de Asturias. El Sueño de su Afición (Camelot, 2015)
Pedro Delgado, A Golpe de Pedal (El País, 1995)
Juan Dorronsoro, Historia de la Volta a Catalunya (Urizar, 2007)
David García, Nuestro Ciclismo, por un Equipo (Libro de Ruta Ediciones, 2014)
Javier García Sánchez, Induráin una Pasión Templada (Plaza & Janes, 1997)
Diario De Navarra, Miguel Indurain, Veinte Años de Ciclismo en Navarra (Diario de Navarra, 1996)
Josu Garai, Miguel Indurain, El Señor del Tour (Recoletos, 2002)
Josu Garai, Ciclismo del Norte (Recoletos, 1994)
Christian Laborde, El Rey Miguel (Juventud, 1996)
Juan Carlos Molero, Historias del Arco Iris (Unipublic, 2005)
Pablo Muñoz, Miguel Indurain y el Mito se hizo Hombre (Editorial Prensa Ibérica, 1996)
Benito Urraburu, Indurain Corazón de Ciclista (Dorleta, 1993)
Various authors, Club Ciclista Villavés (Club Ciclista Villavés, 2000)
(Published in French)
Various authors, Tour de France 100 Ans (L’Équipe, 2002)
Newspapers, Magazines, News Agencies and Websites
(Published in English)
Cycle Sport, ProCycling, Velonews, www.cyclingnews.com, Guardian, The New York Times, AFP, AP, Observer.
(Published in French)
www.memoire-du-cyclisme.eu, L’Équipe, AFP, Le Dauphiné Libéré, Le Figaro
(Published in Spanish)
MARCA, As, El País, El Diario de Navarra, El Mundo, El Mundo Deportivo, El Periódico, ABC, El Diario Vasco, El Correo, Deia, La Vanguardia
(Published in Italian)
La Gazzetta dello Sport
INDEX
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Abdoujaparov, Djamolidin 116–17
Alcalá, Raúl 100, 112, 147
Almárcegui, Antonio 8, 12
Alonso, Marino 3, 29, 135, 137, 206, 288
Amaya, Serguros 32, 189, 191
Andueza, José Ignacio 8
Anquetil, Jacques 35, 152, 159, 163, 167, 168, 198, 199, 220, 221, 278–9, 280, 281, 282
Antequera, Paco 46
Antón, Pablo 255
Aparicio, Vincente 204, 206
Aramendi, Fermin 286, 293
Ardennes Classics 53, 73, 76, 201 see also under individual race name
Ares, Javier 80
Argentin, Moreno 116, 188
Ariostea 116, 189
Arizcuren, Juancho 8, 9
Armstrong, Lance 123, 202, 212, 227, 275
Arnaud, Dominique 23, 37, 49, 62–3, 74, 78, 82–3, 84, 88, 96, 98, 99, 100, 105–6, 115, 120, 121, 125, 129, 131, 132–3, 135, 136–8, 148–9, 210–11, 270, 281
Arratibel, Iñaki, 252
Arribas, Carlos 205–6
Arrieta, José Luis 242, 243–4, 266, 289
Arrieta, Manu 53, 55, 127, 203, 238, 253, 260, 271, 283–4
Arrieta, Ramón González 206, 215
Arrizkoreta, Manolo 26, 27, 29
Arroyo, Ángel 31, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 73, 74, 81, 82, 83, 94, 99, 107, 151
Bahamontes, Federico Martin 15, 44, 81, 107, 122, 144, 146, 268
Banco Santander 190–1
Banesto 3, 6, 11, 27, 33, 76, 94–100, 101, 102–3, 104, 105, 110, 112–15, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130, 132, 134–5, 136, 138, 141, 143, 148–9, 152, 153, 155, 156–9, 162, 165, 168, 171, 175, 181, 182, 183, 184, 186, 187, 189–91, 192, 201, 206, 208–9, 210–15, 216, 217, 218, 221, 223–4, 225, 229, 231, 232–3, 235, 239, 241, 242, 243, 245, 247, 248, 249–50, 251, 252, 253, 254–5, 256, 257, 258, 260, 261, 262–3, 264, 265–8, 269, 271, 273, 274, 275–6, 284, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302
Baqué 39, 40
Barberena, Juan García 35, 36, 94, 95
Barruso, Pepe 7–9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18–19, 20, 21, 22, 23–5, 43, 44
Barteau, Vincent 217–18
Bauer, Steve 82, 100, 101
Belda, Vicente 57–8
Beloki, Joseba 33, 268
Berlusconi, Silvio 189
Bernard, Jean-François 57, 61, 86, 113, 117, 120, 121, 125, 134–5, 137, 138, 149, 161, 169, 196, 206, 268
Berzin, Evgeni 143–4, 192, 193, 194, 195, 199, 238
BIC squad 35, 152
Bizicleta Vasca 134, 237, 266
Blanco, Santi 85, 224, 267, 268
Boardman, Chris 177–9, 184, 185–6, 196, 199, 205, 207, 216, 233, 239, 245–6, 249, 264, 281, 282–3
Bombini, Emanuele 239
Bontempi, Guido 150
Bottaro, Dario 212, 217
Bouwmans, Eddy 164
Boyer, Éric 202
Breukink, Erik 82, 86, 95, 101, 102, 112, 117, 122, 147, 203
Bruyneel, Johan 202, 203, 209, 212, 213, 214
Bugno, Gianni 101, 120, 121, 122, 134, 147, 162, 163, 164, 165, 170, 171, 189, 192, 226
Cabestany, Pello Ruiz 63, 87, 104
Cadena Ser 51, 80
Caja Rural 271, 273, 290
CajaMadrid 40
Carrera 164, 171, 188, 193, 215
Carrera, Enrique 66
Casartelli, Fabio 219
Casero, Ángel Luis 267, 268
Cerrón, José Luis López 190
CHCS 262
Chiappucci, Claudio 100, 101, 106, 110, 111, 119–20, 121, 122, 123, 127, 146, 150–1, 162, 163, 164, 165, 168–9, 170, 171, 172, 188, 189, 193, 195, 206, 209, 220, 226, 230, 244
Chioccioli, Franco 150
Chozas, Eduardo 62
Clarke, Danny 73
Clas-Cajastur 13, 171, 209, 262, 263
Clásica San Sebastián: (1990) 108, 170, 225; (1995) 223–4; (1996) 246, 262
Club Ciclista (CC) Villavés 6–13, 17, 18, 19, 24, 270
Conconi, Professor Francesco 73, 75, 154, 184
Conde, Mario 95, 190, 191
Contador, Alberto 33, 268, 269, 272, 273
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br /> Coppi, Fausto 168, 282
Cornillet, Bruno 90
Costa, Guido 264
Costa, Rui 231
Critérium du Dauphiné 205
Critérium International: (1989) 93; (1992) 149
Cubino, Laudelino 67, 86, 87
Cuevas, Armand de las 121, 138, 150, 158, 163, 189, 192, 196, 197
Dauphiné Libéré: (1995) 205–6; (1996) 237, 240; (1997) 265
Davy, Thomas 184
Dejonckheere, Noël 13
Delgado, Pedro 31, 33, 35, 37–8, 49, 50, 51, 52–4, 55, 73–4, 75–6, 78–85, 86, 87, 88, 90–1, 92, 93–9, 100, 101, 102–3, 104, 105–8, 109, 110, 112–13, 116, 117, 120–1, 122, 125–6, 128, 129, 130, 131, 135, 137, 141, 142, 144, 146, 148, 151, 152, 158, 161, 162, 163, 168, 182, 185, 190, 191, 192, 204, 206, 216, 218, 225, 226, 227, 229, 230, 234, 247, 254, 255, 267, 268, 272, 273, 283, 288, 307
Delors, Jacques 66
Dietz, Bert 279
Donati, Sandro 184
Echarte, María Luisa 26–7, 28, 56, 243
Echavarri, José Miguel 24–5, 31–2, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 49, 51, 52–5, 56, 57, 59, 61, 65, 66, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 83, 92, 93–4, 95, 97, 98, 100, 102, 103, 105, 107, 109, 110, 113, 117, 118, 119, 123–4, 135, 137, 151–2, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 165, 166, 170, 175, 180, 182–3, 184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 190, 193, 196, 200, 208, 213, 216, 223, 224, 225, 229, 233, 243, 246, 247, 248, 249, 254, 257, 258, 267, 273, 278, 288–9, 291
Echave, Fede 97, 225, 243
EPO 183–4, 277
Errandonea, Paco 165
Escartín, Fernando 243, 250
Fernández, Alvaro 45
Fernández, Juan 13, 225, 242–3, 262, 288
Festina 189
Fignon, Laurent 48, 49, 58, 90, 96, 123, 164–5, 201–2, 268
Flèche Wallonne 149; (1987) 76; (1989) 93; (1990) 108
Fondriest, Maurizio 188, 228
Fotheringham, William 123, 274–5, 277–8
Française des Jeux 62
Froome, Chris 123, 272, 279