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Iban Mayo and Igor Anton.
@Libertine Seguros gets the honour of attached each to the correct question.
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Well it would have to be Mayo in 2001 seeing as Antón hadn't joined the team yet!
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Mayo is correct, but Antón isn't (I have to admit that my brain momentarily forgot about Antón. Still, since this guy wrote history and rode for the team his whole career, I feel it's alright to rank him above Antón). It couldn't have been Antón anyway since Samu already had two Vuelta stages to his name when Antón won his first.
Iban Mayo rode for the Café Baqué team in the late 90s, after a traffic accident had put an end to his dream of turning pro with ONCE and almost ended his career before it had begun, but Miguel Madariaga saw CB as his main enemy and wasn't interested in signing him or anyone else from that team. A journalist then published a story about how the top amateur Basque rider couldn't get a pro contract which lead to him ending up at Euskaltel anyway. However Madariaga wasn't amused and took his revenge by giving him a suboptimal schedule until he got his breakthrough only months after the 2001 P-R.
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So, I think we can declare you the winner of this round. You did most of the work anyway.
Or maybe not... can't think of any other major climber with the team.
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Well, there's Roberto Laiseka, not sure if he counts as more mythical than Antón, but he would probably be your answer.
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Laiseka is correct. Now we can move on, although I wouldn't mind staying in or around the Basque Country.
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After a while other posters will be allowed to take over if the victor of the last round hasn't started the next one.
It's (nearly) been 20 years since Samuel Sánchez won his first Vuelta stage. Who messed up in the final that day and sprinted towards the KOM banner rather than the finish line which was positioned a little further up the road?
It's (nearly) been 20 years since Samuel Sánchez won his first Vuelta stage. Who messed up in the final that day and sprinted towards the KOM banner rather than the finish line which was positioned a little further up the road?
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Óscar Pereiro.
Apologies, hadn't realised I had apparently "won" the multiple question round and so didn't realise I was due to set a question.
Apologies, hadn't realised I had apparently "won" the multiple question round and so didn't realise I was due to set a question.
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No worries.
You're right that Pereiro was also in that breakaway and he eventually finished second on the stage, but he wasn't the culprit.
No, that was where he defeated Dani Moreno in the sprint two years later. This happened at Santuario de la Bien Aparecida in Cantabria.
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I try my hardest to refrain from any searches, but I need to allow myself a helping question or two if I'm going to succeed with that.Not your turn to ask
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He finished fourth and managed to catch up with Señor X on the finish line.
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Struggling a bit, I knew Samu beat Pereiro in that stage but if it's neither him nor Sevilla it's testing my memory a lot more. Maybe someone like Javi Pascual? He was in a lot of those stage-settling breaks and moves in that race, but I'm blanking on whether he might have been in this one.
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Pascual was the guy who ended up riding with Samu and Heras on your beloved Pajares stage a couple of days later, but he didn't feature near the front on this one.
No, he was in the GC group behind.
I can reveal that this man started his pro/senior career on Belgian teams.
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He never rode for Lotto. Also this guy, unlike Óscar Sevilla, has been Colombian all his life.
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