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| x Francisco Ventoso |
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Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (born May 6, 1982 in Reinosa, Cantabria) is a Spanish road racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam Movistar Team. Ventoso turned professional with Saunier Duval-Prodir in 2004 before moving to Andalucía-Cajasur in...
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| x Niko Eeckhout |
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Niko Eeckhout (born 16 December 1970 in Izegem) is a professional road racing cyclist from Belgium. He was the 2005–2006 UCI Europe Tour series champion, and currently rides for the An Post–Sean Kelly Team.
Eeckhout started his career in 1993 riding...
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| x Joost Posthuma |
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Joost Posthuma (born 8 March 1981 in Hengelo) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer. He rides on the UCI ProTour for the RadioShack-Nissan-Trek professional cycling team. He is known for his time-trialling and he wore the white jersey for the...
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| x Íñigo Cuesta |
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Íñigo Cuesta López de Castro (born 2 June 1969 in Villarcayo, Burgos) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer. Cuesta turned professional in 1994 for the Basque Euskadi-Petronor team. Here his results included a second place in 1995...
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| x Billy Griggs |
William Luther Griggs (b. September 16, 1968 from Anaheim, California U.S.) is an American "Old School/Mid School" former professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1985 to 1996.
His nickname was "Mr. Bill"...
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| x Moisés Dueñas Nevado |
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Moisés Dueñas Nevado (born May 10, 1981 in Béjar) is a Spanish road racing cyclist who rode for UCI Professional Continental team Barloworld. He was thrown out of the 2008 version of Tour de France.
On 16 July 2008, just before the 11th stage of the...
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| x Danilo Hondo |
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Danilo Hondo (born January 4, 1974 in Guben, Brandenburg) is a German professional road bicycle racer, for Lampre-ISD. He was banned from professional cycling and then later won his appeal to return to the sport.
In 2005, Hondo was suspended and...
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| x Kasper Klostergaard |
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Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (born 22 May 1983) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, riding for Danish based Team Saxo Bank. In the last part of the 2005 season, the then Glud & Marstrand Horsens rider was taken aboard Team CSC, as the team...
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| x Erik Dekker |
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Hendrik "Erik" Dekker (born 21 August 1970) is a retired Dutch professional road racing cyclist active from 1992 until 2006. He was a member of the Rabobank cycling team from 1996 till 2006. In 2007 he became one of Rabobank's team managers.
Dekker...
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| x Jan Ullrich |
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Jan Ullrich (born 2 December 1973 in Rostock, Germany) is a German former professional road bicycle racer. In 1997, he was the first German to win the Tour de France. He went on to take five second places and a fourth in 2004 as well as 3rd in 2005 ...
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| x Anthony Sewell |
Anthony Sewell (August 3, 1962 – April 3, 2009, in Los Angeles, California U.S.) was a professional "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1978 to 1984. He was nicknamed "The Panther". He got the moniker...
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| x Mirjam Melchers |
Maria Wilhelmina Johanna 'Mirjam' Melchers-Van Poppel (born September 26, 1975 in Arnhem, Gelderland) is a female racing cyclist from the Netherlands, married to former sprinter Jean-Paul van Poppel. She is one of the leading cyclists in the world,...
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| x Lars Bak |
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Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980 in Silkeborg) is a Danish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Lotto-Belisol. He became a professional in 2002 for Team Fakta where he rode with fellow Dane Allan Johansen. In 2004 they both...
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| x Jonathan Page |
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Jonathan Page (September 16, 1976 in Tilton, New Hampshire, USA) is an American bicycle racer specializing in cyclo-cross and road racing. He was the USA Cycling National Cyclo-cross Champion in 2002 (primary sponsor Richard Sachs), 2003 and 2004 ...
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| x Mike Poulson |
Michael Poulson (b. January 4, 1965 in Ogden, Utah U.S., later raised in Layton, Utah) is an American "Old School" former professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1981-1987.
Note: Professional first are for...
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| x Brent Patterson |
Brent Hathaway Patterson (b. April 9, 1961 in Oakland, California U.S.. Moved to Hayward, California when he was four months old.) is a former American "Old School" bicycle motocross (BMX) racer.
Brent Patterson is the elder of what was the most...
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| x Tomasz Brożyna |
Tomasz Brożyna (born 19 September 1970 in Bieliny, Poland) is a former professional road racing cyclist. He entered professional cycling in 1995 and retired in 2006 at the age of 36. He is the first Polish cyclist to complete all three of the Grand...
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| x Bobby Julich |
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Robert Julich, most commonly referred to as Bobby Julich, (born on November 18, 1971, in Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for Team CSC in the UCI ProTour racing series. He got his...
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| x Johan Van Summeren |
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Johan Vansummeren (born 4 February 1981 in Lommel) is a Belgian road racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam Garmin-Barracuda.
During the 2007 Tour de France, commentator Paul Sherwen repeatedly praised Vansummeren's work in support of his team...
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| x Nicki Sørensen |
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Nicki Sørensen (born 14 May 1975) is a Danish professional road bicycle racer currently riding for Team Saxo Bank. He has competed in five consecutive editions of the Tour de France from 2001 to 2005, riding as an all-round rider who rides well in...
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| x Guennady Mikhaylov |
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Gennady Mikhaylov (Russian: Геннадий Михайлов, born 8 February 1974 in Cheboksary, Chuvash ASSR), is a former professional road bicycle racer from Russia. He last rode for UCI ProTour Team Katusha. He was part of the successful team Lotto-Adecco, in...
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| x Saul Raisin |
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Saul Raisin (born January 6, 1983 in Dalton, Georgia) is an American former professional road bicycle racer with UCI ProTeam Crédit Agricole.
Raisin began racing mountain bikes at 13, and moved to road bikes when he was 17.
Raisin had a good start...
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| x Peter Luttenberger |
Peter Luttenberger (born 13 December 1972) is an Austrian professional road bicycle racer. He finished fifth in the General Classification of the 1996 Tour de France, but he never again managed to live up to the promise of that result, with a...
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| x Alf Engers |
Alfred 'Alf' Robert Engers (born 1 June 1940) was an English racing cyclist who set national records and won national individual time trial championships from 1959 to the late 1970s. He established a British 25-mile (40 km) record of 49 minutes and...
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| x Alejandro Valverde |
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Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (born April 25, 1980 in Las Lumbreras, Murcia) is a Spanish road racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team Movistar Team. Valverde's biggest wins have been the 2009 Vuelta a España, the Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2006, 2008 and...
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| x Chris Horner |
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Christopher Horner (born October 23, 1971) is an American professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team RadioShack-Nissan-Trek. A native and current resident of Bend, Oregon, Horner dominated the American road racing scene by winning the...
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| x John Purse |
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John Eric Purse (b. September 7, 1972 in Orlando, Florida, raised in Spring, Texas U.S.) is a former American professional "Mid School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer. His prime competitive years were from 1990-2000.
Nicknamed "The Vigilante" early...
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| x Gilberto Simoni |
Gilberto Simoni (born August 25, 1971 in Palù di Giovo, Trentino) is an Italian ex-professional road bicycle racer, most recently for Lampre-ISD. Simoni is twice winner of the Giro d'Italia cycling race (2001 and 2003 editions). Simoni might have...
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| x Claudio Chiappucci |
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Claudio Chiappucci (born 28 February 1963 in Uboldo, Varese, Lombardy) is a retired Italian professional cyclist. He was on the podium three times in the Tour de France general classification - second in 1990, third in 1991 and second again in 1992....
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| x Michael Rasmussen |
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Michael Rasmussen (born 1 June 1974) is a Danish professional road bicycle racer who rides for the Danish team Christina Watches-Onfone. In the 2007 Tour de France, Rasmussen, while in the yellow jersey, had his contract terminated by his team and...
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| x Servais Knaven |
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Henricus Theodorus Josephus (Servais) Knaven (born 6 March 1971 in Lobith, Gelderland) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, currently a directeur sportif for Team Sky. Knaven won Paris–Roubaix in 2001 and is the second rider in history to...
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| x Robert Millar |
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Robert Millar (born 13 September 1958) is a Scottish former professional cyclist who won the "King of the Mountains" competition in the 1984 Tour de France and finished fourth overall – sharing the highest Tour position for a British cyclist with...
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| x Luis Herrera |
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Luis Alberto "Lucho" Herrera Herrera known as "el jardinerito" (the little gardener) (born May 4, 1961 in Fusagasugá, Colombia) is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist. Herrera was a professional from 1985 to 1992 but had a successful amateur...
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| x Dario Frigo |
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Dario Frigo (born September 18, 1973 in Saronno, Italy) is a former professional road bicycle racer. Frigo gained notoriety in the 2005 Tour de France when, lying 52nd overall racing for Fassa Bortolo, he was arrested before stage 11 after French...
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| x Iker Flores |
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Iker Flores Galarza (born July 28, 1976 in Galdakao, Basque Country) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, who in 2007 will race for the new Fuerteventura-Canarias team. Flores turned professional with Euskaltel-Euskadi in 1999, and took the...
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| x Andrei Tchmil |
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Andrei Tchmil (born 22 January 1963) is a retired professional road bicycle racer.
Tchmil was born in Khabarovsk, Russia. His family moved to Ukraine during the days of the Soviet Union. He started cycling and showed enough talent to be moved to a...
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| x Unai Etxebarria |
Unai Etxebarria Arana (born November 21, 1972) is a Venezuelan retired road racing cyclist. He rode for Euskaltel-Euskadi his entire career, from 1996 until 2007. He is of Basque heritage, hence his ability to ride for Euskaltel.
He is not related...
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| x Reza Hormes-Ravenstijn |
Reza Hormes-Ravenstijn, (born February 6, 1967 in Beek (Ubbergen)) is a Dutch cyclo-cross racer. She has won seven races during her career, one of those being the Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championship in 1995. During other Dutch Nationals she won...
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| x Matthieu Sprick |
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Matthieu Sprick (born September 29, 1981 in Sarreguemines, Moselle) is a French cyclist who rides for UCI Professional Continental team Project 1t4i.
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| x Thomas Bruun Eriksen |
Thomas Bruun Eriksen (born 13 February 1979) was a Danish professional road bicycle racer who ended his career after the 2005 UCI ProTour season.
After riding for Danish amateur outfit Team Bornholm, Bruun Eriksen first joined professional outfit...
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| x Uroš Murn |
Uroš Murn (born February 9, 1975) was a Slovenian professional road bicycle racer, most recently for UCI ProTour team Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. Murn joined Discovery Channel having previously ridden on the ProTour for Phonak Hearing...
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| x Guido Trenti |
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Guido Trenti (born December 27, 1972 in Milan) is an American-Italian professional road racing cyclist who has ridden in each of the three Grand Tours.
Trenti was born to an American mother and Italian father, allowing him to maintain dual...
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| x Laurent Jalabert |
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Laurent Jalabert (born November 30, 1968 in Mazamet) is a French former professional road racing cyclist, from 1989 to 2002. Affectionately known as "Jaja" (slang for a glass of wine; when he continued drinking wine as a professional, the nickname...
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| x Salvatore Commesso |
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Salvatore Commesso (born March 28, 1975) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer that rides for the professional continental team Preti Mangimi.
He was born in Torre del Greco, Campania, and turned professional in 1998. That year he came in...
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| x Roberto Heras |
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Roberto Heras Hernández (born 1 February 1974) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer who won the Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain) a record-tying three times. He broke the record with a fourth win in 2005, but was disqualified for taking...
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| x Kim Andersen |
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Kim Andersen (born 2 October 1958 in Malling, Denmark) is a former professional Danish road bicycle racer and current cycling team directeur sportif. From 2004 to 2010, he was a directeur sportif for Danish ProTour Team Saxo Bank. From 2011, he...
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| x Andre Greipel |
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André Greipel (born July 16, 1982 in Rostock, East Germany) is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Lotto-Belisol.
He currently lives in Hürth, close to Cologne in Germany. After his win of the 2008 Tour Down Under, he was named...
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| x Karsten Kroon |
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Karsten Kroon (born January 29, 1976 in Dalen) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for Team Saxo Bank, a UCI ProTeam.
Kroon showed his talent as an amateur by winning the professional Ronde van Drenthe in 1996. He joined...
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| x Tadej Valjavec |
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Tadej Valjavec (born April 13, 1977 in Kranj) is a Slovenian professional road bicycle racer, currently suspended from competition. He is well known as a good climber due to his rides on mountain stages in the Giro d'Italia. Although he has achieved...
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| x Fränk Schleck |
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Fränk René Schleck (born 15 April 1980) is a Luxembourgish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam RadioShack-Nissan-Trek. At the start of 2005, Schleck was joined by his younger brother Andy on Team CSC, and they split the 2005 national...
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| x Lance Armstrong |
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Lance Edward Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson on September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times after having survived testicular cancer. He is also the...
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| x Michael Blaudzun |
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Michael Blaudzun (born 30 April 1973 in Herning) is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer. Michael is the son of 1972 Summer Olympics track cycling bronze medalist Verner Blaudzun and a strong individual time trial rider who has won the...
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| x Samuel Sánchez |
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Samuel Sánchez González (born February 5, 1978 in Oviedo, Asturias) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He was the gold medal winner in the 2008 Beijing Olympics Men's Road Race. In recent years Sánchez has proven himself in hilly classics...
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| x Mario Beccia |
Mario Beccia (born August 16, 1955 in Troia, Puglia) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, active between 1977 and 1988 and as of 2006 works as a directeur sportif at Team Vorarlberg.
In his career, Beccia won a total of fifteen...
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| x Paolo Bettini |
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Paolo Bettini (born 1 April 1974 in Cecina, Livorno, Tuscany) is an Italian former champion road racing cyclist, and the coach of the Italian national cycling team. Considered the best classics specialist of his generation, and probably one of the...
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| x Christian Müller |
Christian Müller (born 1 March 1982) is a professional German road bicycle racer. He rode for Team CSC from 2005 to 2006, his two first years as professional.
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| x Fabian Cancellara |
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Fabian Cancellara (born 18 March 1981) is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam RadioShack-Nissan-Trek. A time trial specialist, he is a four-time World Time Trial Champion and is the current Olympic gold medalist. He is also a...
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| x Mark Scanlon |
Mark Scanlon (born 10 October 1980 in Cranmore, Sligo) is an Irish former professional road racing cyclist. Scanlon came to prominence when he won the junior race at the 1998 world road race championship, on his 18th birthday.
After winning the...
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| x Mike King |
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Michael Allen King (b. June 30, 1969 in Washington, D.C. U.S.) is an "Old School/Mid School" former professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1984 to 1998 and is also a former Mountain Bike (MTB) racer who...
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| x José Luis Rubiera |
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José Luis Rubiera Vigil (born 27 January 1973 in Gijón) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer. He last rode for the UCI ProTour team Team RadioShack.
Rubiera won his first professional race at the 1997 Giro d'Italia, winning stage 19....
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