Cycling - Giro d'Italia 1999 Part 1

The 1999 Giro d'Italia was the 82nd edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began on May 15 with a mass-start stage that stretched from Agrigento to Modica. The race came to a close on June 6 with a mass-start stage that ended in the Italian city of Milan. Eighteen teams entered the race that was won by the Italian Ivan Gotti (sub judice)of the Team Polti team. Second and third were the Italians riders Paolo Savoldelli and Gilberto Simoni.
In the race's other classifications, Kelme-Costa Blanca rider Chepe González won the mountains classification, Laurent Jalabert of the ONCE-Deutsche Bank team won the points classification, and Team Polti rider Fabrizio Guidi won the intergiro classification. Vitalicio Seguros finished as the winners of the Trofeo Fast Team classification, ranking each of the eighteen teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. The other team classification, the Trofeo Super Team classification, where the teams' riders are awarded points for placing within the top twenty in each stage and the points are then totaled for each team was won by Team Polti.

[@tdogg223]

sound!

[@Ulleval73]

@32:47 into the video. The objections to dope-testing by the Italian Olympic Committee. Looking back on that era, when EPO was the undetectable dope of choice, what a charade played out in the '99 Giro. Likely as not, doping was widespread, for instance, the two guys dropped from the start for too high a hematocrit level! What BS....they were doping; the authorities just hadn't figured out how to detect it yet. Yea, the 1990's.....doping in the peloton was the order of the day.

[@user-zx1ir7jt4c]

Of course they were!

[@treygray2817]

lol at Pantani catching rouelurs on the flat. it's hilarious for the sheer absurdity of it all

[@drunkensailor112]

Pantani was an incredibe rider, with, of without doping