1. Mauricio Soler competed in the Tour de France for the first time in 2007, winning stage 9, having broken away on the Col du Galibier.
10 Facts About Mauricio Soler
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Mauricio Soler won that year's King of the Mountains title.
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Mauricio Soler had a career-ending crash in the 2011 Tour de Suisse.
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Mauricio Soler began racing at the age of 17; he stated a race in his village is what made him decide to become a professional cyclist.
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Mauricio Soler made his Tour debut in the 2007 Tour de France, where he won the ninth stage, and won the mountains classification.
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Mauricio Soler was forced to drop out after a CT scan showed a microfracture in his wrist.
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Mauricio Soler hit a spectator and was thrown into a solid fence.
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Mauricio Soler suffered a fractured skull, a cerebral edema, other fractures and hematomas.
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In January 2012 it was reported in VeloNews that Mauricio Soler had moved back to Colombia to begin his recuperation.
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On July 17,2012, Mauricio Soler announced that he would not attempt to return to professional cycling.