Cycling - Giro d'Italia 2000 Part 1

The 2000 Giro d'Italia was the 83rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began with a 4.6 km (3 mi) prologue that navigated through the Italian capital Rome. The race came to a close on June 4 with a mass-start stage that ended in the Italian city of Milan. Twenty teams entered the race that was won by the Italian Stefano Garzelli of the Mercatone Uno-Albacom team. Second and third were the Italians riders Francesco Casagrande and Gilberto Simoni.
In the race's other classifications, Vini Caldirola-Sidermec rider Francesco Casagrande won the mountains classification, Dimitri Konyshev of the Fassa Bortolo team won the points classification, and Française des Jeux rider Fabrizio Guidi won the intergiro classification. Mapei-Quick-Step finished as the winners of the Trofeo Fast Team classification, ranking each of the twenty 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 also won by Fassa Bortolo.

[@tdogg223]

fair play man..it's great having these to watch! thanks

[@francescofontana341]

from 14:15 to 17:00 you can see my town, the most beautiful place in the world, MARATEA

[@finr8452]

For me next time I am here: Dave McKenzie's stage win is at about 50 minutes in

[@UnivegaSuperSport]

I remember watching it live on OLN. Bob Roll got an interview with him at the finishing line.

[@finr8452]

@@UnivegaSuperSport Wow, I bet it was a fun one to watch. It was a bit before my time.... Not sure where you are from, but he is still a legend here in Australia

[@UnivegaSuperSport]

@@finr8452 Yeah, "Macker" was in tears crying on Bob's shoulder. Bob was still relatively well known among the riders and always gave the best interviews. I was just getting into racing myself and would record the stages on vhs tape live while on a training ride, go to classes and then watch the recording when I got home. I'd have to avoid the internet and cycling discussion forums so that day's ending didn't get spoiled. I did this for all OLN and Versus coverage from '99-2008.

[@finr8452]

@@UnivegaSuperSport Sounds like a different time. I wasn't even born yet! I hope that you are still riding and keeping up with the highs and lows of the modern peloton. You sound like a great bloke Just to be clear though, "Macker" is spelt "Macca" haha!

[@UnivegaSuperSport]

@@finr8452 lol, that's hilarious how I Americanized his name. Only heard Phil or Paul call him that in the video so I'll blame them.