How not DOPED Miguel Indurain won the 1993 Giro

The 1993 Giro was the 76th edition of the race. It started off in Porto Azzurro on 23 May with a split stage, with the first leg being a mass-start stage and the latter an individual time trial. The race ended on 13 June with a stage that stretched 166 km (103.1 mi) from Biella to Milan. Twenty teams entered the race, which was won by Miguel Induráin of the Banesto team. Second and third respectively were the Latvian Piotr Ugrumov and the Italian rider, Claudio Chiappucci. Indurain's victory in the 1993 Giro was his first step in completing the Giro - Tour double - winning the Giro and Tour in one calendar year - becoming the first rider to repeat this feat in consecutive years.
Moreno Argentin was the first rider to wear the race leader's maglia rosa after winning the opening stage. Argentin held that lead for ten more days before losing it to Miguel Induráin after the conclusion stage 10. Bruno Leali stole the lead away from Indurain after the race's eleventh leg and held it until the end of the fourteenth day of racing. Indurain gained the lead after mountainous stage 14 and then held it all the way to the Giro's finish in Milan.
Indurain became the first Spanish rider to win the Giro in consecutive years. Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Italian Adriano Baffi of Mercatone Uno-Zucchini-Medeghini won the points competition, Carrera Jeans-Tassoni's Claudio Chiappucci won the mountains classification, Lampre-Polti's Pavel Tonkov completed the Giro as the best rider aged 25 or younger in the general classification, finishing fifth overall, and Ján Svorada of Lampre-Polti won the intergiro competition. Lampre-Polti finished as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. Ariostea finished as winners of the team points classification. #Cycling, #Sports, #Doping

[@poly_hexamethyl]

I think by "100% clean" they mean he took a shower after each stage...

[@themelted4614]

Is right. Good call. Clean my arse

[@pavanatanaya]

The peloton is still doped to the gills...Just different dope

[@samsiesta8749]

All this video showed is that Indurain was definitely doped during the 93 giro.

[@cedrichennert4869]

thats probably the point

[@calibri1182]

Most likely. The problem is, since there is no proof...

[@stevec6232]

It's called sarcasm...

[@krisjones74]

Chiapucci was amazing, a real inspiration to anyone born without a neck.

[@drphibes7666]

Mr 64 Ugrumov was a monster! Great video, long format lets the stages breathe. Love it.

[@raftermanhoward1883]

I'm not entirely sure, but I feel like I hear a hint of sarcasm here and there, scattered throughout the video.

[@todd.goslin6190]

Miguel Indurain is one of my favorite all-time cyclists. But not doped? I find that hard to believe .

[@Henjo29]

"Doped up donkeys turned into racehorses." Just saying that brings tears to my eyes. 😂

[@hoboroller5642]

Arnold Schwarzenegger said there's only two types of champions ones that use steroids and ones that lie about using steroids.

[@abdul-kabiralegbe5660]

I've always heard people say Bugno had great pedalling style. This video convinced me they weren't lying.

[@znalniaskas]

The Wout van Aert of his time.

[@TheSabado215]

Beautiful Bikes.

[@bihurri]

Everybody was on juice,...but we love Indurain, a True gentleman

[@stevestewart-sturges2159]

I met Indurain, fairly briefly, at Futuroscope before the 1990 Tour, Couple days before the tour started, riders were cruising around the place and staying loose. Riders were gong through a gaping the fencing to get back to the buses, I met many of the pros of the day there. Indurain stopped to talk to someone and I offered my good luck in my best school boy Spanish, he gave me what appeared to be a genuine smile, nodded and rode off... Two things, how freaking tall he was and how skinny... and he carried this air of calmness about him, very centred

[@MikeStarr1000]

14th stage, 7.5 hours in hail on 42/21-23, Miguel at 85kg stll prepping for the TDF add a 90min TT in the hills, the 90's!

[@davess61]

Mutants 😀

[@Peakabike]

Can't begin to imagine the strength needed to push that kind of gear on a 10% slope with his weight!

[@davess61]

Mutant strength 💪

[@marcdaniels9079]

@@davess61 ExPlOsive strength

[@EMC2Scotia]

Bugno being caught on the Passo Fedaia. It all ended there, as far as being a GC contender. They should put a plaque there to commemorate it.

[@megawutt]

I refuse to believe there were clean riders at the high level back then, Indurain included.

[@Tarmaccyclocross]

I don’t believe boring mig was clean big men don’t climb that well without help

[@cyclinghighlights]

80kg, but climb Marmolada in front with rain as the sherpa of Hillary in the Everest

[@teamadministrator4822]

100% AGREE no way mig was clean , specially now we know all 6 rides behind doped

[@marcdaniels9079]

Just like all the sprinters complaining about Ben Johnson in the 100m final. All subsequently tested positive or at the very least under a huge cloud including Christie’s infamous Ginseng BS to escape a ban for pseudo ephedrine

[@Thetoad738]

He wasn't. Such a boring rider to boot. You don't go from being Delgado's domestic to winning 5 Tours.

[@dunquinho9706]

I don't think anyone's ever claimed Big Mig was clean.

[@vrusimov]

I like to think that Miguel did it all clean but...geez...there were a LOT of riders on the sauce during his five year run. The entire Gewiss-Ballan team in particular (which included Bjarne Riis)...not to mention Festina. His effort at La Plagne in '95 was certainly eye-opening.

[@simonworsley8631]

The whole Banesto team were doping and used EPO. Thomas Davy’s testimony confirmed that. Indurain was probably on EPO as early as 1990 given his transformation that year

[@TweedSuit]

6 foot 2 - 80Kg. Wins 5 consecutive TdF including 2 consecutive Giro's...

[@agl1925]

82kg?

[@buddhaboy-]

good one!

[@davidtreichelpppj5304]

This was a fun narration of That Giro ..... I enjoyed it in a different way this time around . But I don't think "BIG MIG" would .

[@KramerEspinoza]

Lol Indurain not doped…. Too funny 😂😂😂

[@cattycats4]

Of course he was very clean he was In Du Rain for his entire career! xD

[@nobodyjones7632]

Lets face it... they were all on it. If your all doing it its a level playing field. You still have to put in the training to get there and you still have to race the stages. There still at it now, they just havnt found the right test to detect what there taking. I still love the sport and the grand tours.

[@lightfeather9953]

Not a level playing field. Some respond better, some take more risks, some have better doctors and more money to hire the best, some have more favor with the UCI, and some lose because they refuse to do it. "Level playing field" is a joke. What does training have to do with it? You can train a lot better on drugs.

[@rene_bla_bla]

no they where not all on it, many ppl are sorted out in the younger years. because they didn't take that shit. its cheating and they should be banned for live and not get jobs as trainer,commentators and so on.

[@joescott5322]

Loved big mig but believing in a clean big mig is like believing in Santa Clause

[@JK-zx3go]

A resting heart rate of 7 bpm is totally normal. Nothing to see here.

[@david9243]

Its a joke. He had 27/28 (which is still abnormal).

[@backalleycqc4790]

Yes, if you had molasses for blood and a heart the size of an elephant.

[@themelted4614]

Our narrator is Dope here lol

[@JumpingWatermelons]

??? Why does this guy keep talking like 30 years old is too old to compete in a grand tour? Really WTF. About 1/3 of grand tour winners over the last 100 years were age 30 and over.

[@michadebicki6534]

Got too used to our recent winners doped to the moon 19 years olds

[@david9243]

We are living in a era where skinny 19 year old skeletons are pushing watts like good old days and we are all pretending its clean.

[@krisjones74]

No chance he was clean. Some results he got didn't make logical sense if he was clean.

[@chrisfox6065]

Is this a joke? Imdurain clean? Didn’t have his own Italian doping doctor, Conconi? Come on man.

[@andrewcockburn7484]

Yes. No. Yes.

[@needfoolthings]

I love it when a 34 minute video still goes whoosh over people's heads. YOU come on, man...

[@glywnniswells9480]

How did 120 doped riders complete the giro

[@xosece]

as much as I admire Indurain, I guess he could have used performance enhancing substances. Still a gifted natural monstrous talent though. I was a kid back then but gosh were the 90s doping galore.

[@needfoolthings]

He was called Big Mig because he stretched himself higher to stack more stuff under his gills.

[@robertroka7199]

What is the reason for statement he was not doped?? Because he was never catched? Lance Armstrong wasn't catched as wel...

[@allanpetersen9091]

feel any sarcasm bro

[@Juanxlink]

Was indurain not tied to eufemiano and his crew already?

[@mynameistechno]

14:55 what the hell was this weirdo doing there to the woman on the right?

[@cattycats4]

They say Indurain had much larger lung capacity than a normal athlete, although proven to be true it would not give any advantages like doping would so he was definitely among equals. Also did you really just say Sega Genesis !! and the guys shirt clearly says Mega Drive! As an Englishman thats like saying youll fix someones faucet when the correct pronunciation is dont youll break it...

[@marcdaniels9079]

Clean Big Mig …??!!! 😅😅FFS NOBODY was clean back then

[@stevenkalin1438]

I can’t believe there are still people that think anyone who has ever won a major bike race of any description did it clean. The bitterness of this commentator really ruins this shit. I mean, wasn’t it the badger that said it was impossible to win a grand tour on salad and mineral water? My god, people, what more do you need to hear? Just accept it as fact and enjoy the performance.

[@stevenkalin1438]

And reinstate Lances 7 victories. You know he was the greatest, the fact he was an asshole doesn’t change that.

[@rickjohnson2648]

you got it almost right it was jaques anquitel that makes that statement

[@NickyP902]

Was he actually clean tho ?

[@jsquire5pa]

Errr .. not sure you got the sarcasm 😂

[@mattkerr8443]

Biggest climb in cycling history lol

[@needfoolthings]

Chiapucci could have been better in time trials if he had had a neck to get his helmet down in an aerodynamic position.

[@martybates9728]

These guys had enough juice inthier bloodstream to kill a horse

[@needfoolthings]

Horses never know when to stop on a grand tour...

[@Alain93940]

Not true, Indurain was on PED's but they hadn't been identified and made the illegal list!

[@needfoolthings]

Reeeeeeaaalllly?! Wow, you're a true detective! Pray tell, did you listen to just two words or did you just come to comment on one term in a thumbnail?!

[@qbertq1]

Greg LeMond would beg to differ.

[@needfoolthings]

...on what?

[@bobbyshizz2138]

They all doped. They all still dope. TDF champ Vingegaard wins a 22k TT by over a minute and thirty seconds. Lmao. Dont be naive. They're ALWAYS ahead of the testing.

[@andreaswiklund7197]

Or they don’t dope and the others were just slower. Maybe Ulrich, Armstrong and the others would have beaten Vingegaard with 5 minutes.

[@martinwinther6013]

LOl-- how not doped Indurain.. /smh He wasnt caught, thats all there is to it

[@RB..1]

Miguel zzzzzzzz Indurain. Doper

[@marccarter1350]

No one was clean then!

[@davess61]

Ferrari test riders 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnnycab8986]

19mm tubulars, thin aluminum rims, steel frames, no wussy gears and no helmets...these guys were stylin 😎 64 HC 🤣

[@thomasdavidbassett483]

¿why is no helmet styling?

[@mrmercedes8528]

Because: you could actually see what each rider looked like

[@marcdaniels9079]

@@mrmercedes8528 I can tell exactly who is who even with helmets and sunglasses with lenses as big as side plates !🤣

[@EnochTheFirstProphet]

Of course Indurain was doped up, LeMond quit because he realized he couldn't compete as a clean rider, regardless what anyone says, Greg LeMond deserves massive respect because he chose to retire instead of giving into the temptation of doping to maintain a elite level. 👍

[@thomasdavidbassett483]

That to me seems very strange. The two riders that stood out to taking more stuff than most.

[@EnochTheFirstProphet]

@@thomasdavidbassett483 huh? Other Lance Armstrong who was just making shit up because he had a axe to grind, because LeMond was calling him out for being a doper. Provide legitimate truth that LeMond doped?

[@Peakabike]

Fignon said the same thing in his book...not too believable that the richest cyclists wouldn't have taken the best drugs when there was no risk of getting caught...remember that they were used to taking "stilulants" since turning pro.

[@philiprice6961]

Let's be clear. In the early 90s EPO was undetectable. Fact. Throughout the history of pro-cycling PED use was rife, even when detectable. Can we reasonably believe that EPO was not widely used as soon as it became available, since not using it would mean almost certain failure? (remember that Delgado and by extension team Reynolds were nearly caught out in 1988). Lemond, I think, was a clean honest athlete who did not use EPO, was forced into overtraining which then ruined his (already compromised) health, and was robbed of several chances to win tours. The whole era was a tragedy and anyone involved should be ashamed of themselves. Indurain was a hugely talented rider and would probably have won tours and giros in a clean peloton. I don't believe he was clean, but I can't prove it, beyond noting that in a spanish language interview he said something to the effect of 'I did what I had to do'.

[@Peakabike]

@@philiprice6961 Pre-EPO they all "did what they had to do", there's no way they could have competed otherwise. Now some like Lemond were never caught so you have to give them the benefit of the doubt, not so with Fignon who was caught at least twice for "speed", he fessed up in his book but of course said that was the only time he ever doped...right. It's actually pretty comical because for one of them he said he'd taken "speed" because his coach Alain Gallopin had just had a baby (or was about to have one) and couldn't accompany him on his training ride ! Doping was such a way of life for him that it didn't occur to him that anyone with a brain would be surprised that he would just have "speed" hanging around in his garage ;-) With EPO, I'm not sure, it's possible that Fignon and Lemond would have had doubts and not much to gain, it was after all scarier than just popping some pills, especially in the beginning.

[@LEGALIZEROADRAGE]

Apparently he had a huge lung capacity

[@lorenzogumier7646]

Chiappucci "already" 30😅

[@hoboroller5642]

There was so much steroids in the '80s and '90s!!!

[@larryt.atcycleitalia5786]

Hindsight's always 20/20 and everyone was/is doped....just like BigTex told us. Is it a point-of-pride with the announcer to butcher as many Italian words/names as possible on these things?

[@hisdadjames4876]

Todays Giro ‘23 stage was the most passive and boring ever. Bring back Dr Ferrari, I say, and pack that peloton with more aggressive monsters!😅

[@cyclinghighlights]

That stage remembered me the Joux Plane in Tdf 16. Amazing show of nothing with Contatroll crying because of a victory at Madrazo’s style

[@RB..1]

🤣 Alberto Clenbutador

[@dpmu7380]

😀 - he wasn't clean.

[@aplaceinfrance9279]

Lol

[@needfoolthings]

Chiapucci could have won this but because of his necklessness his gills were much much lower than Big Mig's.

[@davidbacon2726]

Baldies rule. 😂

[@rene_bla_bla]

junkies' on wheels. it was not a race. it was who has the "best" doctor.

[@Actualhumanlive]

Thumbs down for the thumbnail

[@needfoolthings]

What's not to like?

[@fernandosegui1]

CRAP!!!!!!

[@cyclinghighlights]

Not DOPED Crap*

[@digitalcommunist6335]

Big Mig was as clean as Lance😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sb2406]

Miguelon clean? Ahahahaah