1996 Profile of Miguel Induráin! | "Big Mig" on his Tour de France Wins! | inCycle

Cycling legend Miguel Induráin talks us through his career and teammates in this 1996 profile!
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[@garethhelliwell9736]

The man that got me into cycling. I remember watching him in the 91 Tour on channel 4 and I was hooked. A great rider to watch.

[@robster6868]

Same here,great days indeed !I rode with the man himself in the Marmotte Pyrenees in 2018 an absolute gent.The true king of Spain.

[@guillermoortizberenguer6750]

the same thing happened to me. Era un plazer observarlo - fantastico!!

[@jeromebarretto2562]

So, you’re all using PED then...Just like Indurian

[@banjo7127]

Same, was a childhood hero of mine.

[@richierich3052]

@@jeromebarretto2562 No proof whatsoever

[@justjase1576]

I got into cycling thanks to Miguel. Not only is he the greatest, but also humble in his success, showing respect to his fellow professionals and an idol for us who were younger back then. The perfect champion. I will never forget the Luxembourg Time Trial where he utterly demolished everybody in the field over 40+ miles. Does anyone know what happened to his son? did he quit cycling? I was really hoping we would see him follow in his fathers footsteps.

[@ecommoy]

Quel magnifique athlete . Jamais vu un aussi beau coureur , si bien posé sur sa machine

[@stevemcewan1008]

Got me in cycling, he was such a humble and brilliant champion

[@glywnniswells9480]

This guy climbing like that is still one of the biggest outliers in all of sport a truly phenomenal rider

[@stefanodepalo5204]

Really nice and humble man even after his five wins. You didn't even know he was in the room.

[@luckyirvin]

Big Mig was so smooth on the bike his long arms pulling on the bars helping his legs he could stay on top of his chosen gear at any speed time trial or mountain road... smooth awesome power

[@fireroadie6654]

Great video 👍👍

[@oommcc]

The greatest of all time by quite a distance

[@jeromebarretto2562]

He started the PED doping scandal. 1990 he’s nobody then 1991 won especially when he’s got no muscles then he got big hmmmmm

[@oommcc]

@@jeromebarretto2562 How easy is to talk. In 1985 he was a beast. In 88 he wont Volta Catalunya (3 times), in 89 and 90 Paris-Nice (the last one of which was just spectacular). In 90 also la clasica de San Sebastian not to mention several other less important races. He was 17 and 10 in Tour of France before 1991 when he finally won... but then again, its easy to simply talk without knowing. Disgusting.

[@ShadowWizard123]

The man had a resting heart rate of 28 beats per minute. Absolutely incredible. Truly a gifted athlete.

[@magisterialanubis06]

thats merckx

[@roma1579]

@@ShadowWizard123 , yeah i’ve read that back then, it’s amazing! plus an incredible VO2max . Senna was 34

[@neelonghunglow]

He also had a magnificent uni! This guy was a legend!

[@Souliban]

Still alive 🙂

[@tman5634]

Is a legend !

[@jimy-kopalencialazo7355]

Un verdadero campeón!

[@rs3tuber425]

I remember watching the Spanish TV documentary where a spanish university attempted to measure his wattage output . Miguel Indurain measured above the capacity of the instrument and rendered it obsolete. The university and a lab had to build another machine just to measure his capacity because they never thought that it was humanly possible to reach the measured units. This guy is just ridiculously overbuilt for cardio. He trained on Northern Spain where there are lots of mountains.

[@adriansierra6532]

best ever

[@mtelectrical8068]

A great champion and an unbelievable engine.

[@TheMrbc74]

My hermatacric levels have gone to almost 60 watching this

[@SilentM1337]

Here in Germany we call him "Don Miguel". The first time a watched cycling, when he won 4 TDF, he was called that. And I still keep it that way.

[@mediumrick7667]

Legend.

[@MrMiquel10]

El mejor de la historia. The best ever before. With a lot of diference. Gracias por todo Miguelòn

[@Ih8GoogleandApple]

His speed on the flats was ungodly

[@rmm2000]

EPO...

[@cyka4075]

28bpm resting heart rate 7.8 liter lung capacity

[@alexgill9853]

@@cyka4075 28!!! Wow

[@phililpb]

@@alexgill9853 yes 28 EPO does that

[@hernancortesfranciscopizar7916]

The G.O.A.T

[@thiscocks]

The reason Luis Herrera quit cycling was because guys like indurain were breezing past him on the climbs...

[@m.x.]

The mythical "Lucho" Herrera!

[@abone2pick]

Imagine you weigh 60 kilos and and guy of 79 kilos is keeping up with and dropping you on some of the hardest pyrenees mountain roads .

[@jeromebarretto2562]

Because he’s using PED, he started it

[@BleakVision]

No offence, but Ugromov looks like he was just released form the Gulag

[@forkayebee3831]

if only someone like Landa or Quintana could have been on such a seasoned well conditioned team like the Banesto team, shame they aren't around anymore *cough* sarcasm *cough*

[@JoseAlvarez-dp8fz]

I still believe he is the GOAT

[@bimfred]

doper

[@mickoholland1]

Great Rider, i still think he had the ability to win another 1 or 2 tours, though he retired young he obviously had his reasons.

[@Ferreal92]

The man could average 500 watts of power, the average bicycle racer is lucky to maintain 200. Whether or not he used ill gotten means to attain this it's still quite impressive for a human being.

[@rmm2000]

EPO...

[@josejoserr.4142]

Epo contaminado,, yeppp he got them!!!!

[@treygray2817]

@@rmm2000 not just EPO! They call it a cocktail 😉

[@DarthBane-zf8wv]

He definitely used EPO. Everyone was dirty back then with no test for it.

[@robbeelsas]

You should really divide power by weight. I mean, 6.3 W/kg sustained effort in a time trial is not very uncommon in the professional peleton these days. Also, 200W is extremely doable with minimal training (5h a week) for someone who weighs 80kg or more

[@shortcutronny663]

He was dopet just like the others in that periode. He says in the interview: "there is a lot of small details who helps you" ... Indirectly there it is😉

[@richardwilliams6256]

Just because you don't have his talents no need to throw shade on his clear talents. You could take 100 times the "alleged" doping you believe he did and would win nothing.

[@oommcc]

I guess you are talking about Froome?

[@Souliban]

Why he still alive and never made a positive ? His rivals can't say the same...🤷🏻‍♂️😄

[@ManuelFlores-oe2wf]

Lance never failed a drug test either. Indurain dominated a field full of known dopers….you want me to believe he beat them clean? Pitch please.

[@mattiarubio3240]

I remember when he escaped from the peloton with some random guy just trying to win the stage they would get to the end and he would be able to easily win the stage but he always let the other person win

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Wonder in would Shake Rattle and Roll in the Time Trial?

[@milanreznicek7335]

No doubt, Big Mig is still the greatest chapmion and cyclist. He was amazing and absolutely strogest rider all times. I admire him.

[@felicetanka]

Trajan, Hadrian, Theodosius, Indurain

[@timdernachn9851]

Excellent. That was a blast from the past! Look at the size of him, no way on earth would he win a GT with that bulk these days. Sherwin sounds really naive in retrospect rationalising how Mig wins, even tho he took more EPO than everyone else combined lol. Level playing field however.

[@JulioLeonFandinho]

Do you have any prove of him taking EPO?

[@m.x.]

More whining from Spanish haters.

[@richierich3052]

@@JulioLeonFandinho of course he does not

[@JimmyjimmyJimmyjimmy-ih3yd]

He had a resting heart rate of 28.

[@DarthBane-zf8wv]

EPO tends to do that. That's why people died in their sleep from it. Blood pressure and heart function got too low.

[@Souliban]

@@DarthBane-zf8wv jealous rat alert

[@DarthBane-zf8wv]

@@Souliban Banesto had team members die in the 1990s. It's fact and clearly linked to EPO.

[@Souliban]

@@DarthBane-zf8wv one of them Indurain? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@richierich3052]

@@DarthBane-zf8wv plain false.. they died well over in their 50s, 20 years after retirement

[@MR-dv6ms]

Juiced to the eyeballs, but still one of my favourite riders

[@phililpb]

I guess we will never know 100%

[@m.x.]

No proof whatsoever.

[@glywnniswells9480]

U cant juice a lung capacity of 7.8L hr was physically superior

[@henkvandervis7785]

If so, why did he loose to lesser like Riis? Oh, ja, EPO..... He wasn't juiced to the eyeball. That guy was pure class.

[@tomthumb3500]

Was he really clean ??? Never pursued liked Armstrong???

[@mikespence8956]

SOIDS! "THE! TOUR! DE! FRANCE! LEGEND" MICHAEL!!! INDURAIN! THE! SPANIARD! THE! TOUR! DE! FRANCE! (G,O,A,T)!!! SOIDS! NOW! YOU! KNOW!

[@ManuelFlores-oe2wf]

Nice guy but doped through his gills

[@Ettibridget]

Has he ever admitted doping?

[@m.x.]

He was clean.

[@Souliban]

He always clean...not like his rivals..most of them already dead

[@jeromebarretto2562]

Hahahahahhaha there’s no way that he’s clean....

[@ManuelFlores-oe2wf]

Cocone

[@waltervila33]

Spain 🇪🇸 is #1

[@waltervila33]

heytreacle I meant Indurain is #1

[@spicypretzel7616]

Okay

[@pittera5971]

Navarre,basque

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

😂 The best equipment ( some of those bikes are now banned) and the best doctors that is really what it comes down to. We are not naive he was a phenomenal cyclist but his size on climbing go sell me some moon property if you believe that he was clean. Either way the new pro cycling has lost this nostalgia. He quit at the right time and thus did not get the doping spotlight on him.

[@djoooop]

After the exciting Tours of the 80s, there was Miguel-the-extraterrestrial-Indurain, EPO responder of the first hour. His TDF win marks the moment when cycling lost its legendary status. Imagine how that must feel. All that training, all that suffering, only to ruin the thing you love most.

[@alanrobinson7891]

They were doping long before mig came on the scene

[@djoooop]

@@alanrobinson7891 True, but you could still compete without. With EPO that was no longer possible.

[@jozemohoric5018]

Mig never tested positive in his defense and he is for me the goat, but another fact is the in this year (or today's) TDF with absence of time trails he would not be in the top 10

[@alanrobinson7891]

@@jozemohoric5018 Mig is the greatest. The whole reason I got into cycling. But you do realise they still do time trails. They literally done one today

[@jozemohoric5018]

@@alanrobinson7891i know, but in '92 there was 198km of time trailing in the tour and 36km this year. And belive me I know there was a time trial yesterday.... I' m Slovene😜. Cheers🍻