boardhanger said:Yes but he had good vitamins during 2006. I remember Vino winning 2 stages in a row. And that year the Pyrenees were not in the race, reducing mountain men's chances. The top 3 that year.
Alexander Vinokourov, Alejandro Valverde, Andrey Kashechkin
All notoriously suffer in the high mountains of the Alps and Pyrenees and Dolimites when it comes to the GT's that include them.