Pedro Delgado Robledo, known as Perico, is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer.
26 Facts About Pedro Delgado
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Pedro Delgado won the 1988 Tour de France, as well as the Vuelta a Espana in 1985 and 1989.
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Pedro Delgado was a good climber, with an aggressive style, making cycling a spectacle, which gained him fans.
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Pedro Delgado was a good time-trialist until the nineties, when it became difficult for him to adapt to technical changes in the time-trial bicycles.
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Pedro Delgado tested positive for the known masking agent Probenecid during the 1988 tour.
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Pedro Delgado was such a consistently strong rider that he finished in the top 10 of eighteen Grand Tours.
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Pedro Delgado took part in the Tour de France eleven times.
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Pedro Delgado was a young rider, and Angel Arroyo was the star of the team.
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That year the Tour had four individual time trials, plus the prologue, and six mountainous stages, so Pedro Delgado had enough opportunities to show his talent.
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Unfortunately, Pedro Delgado drank a spoilt milk shake that caused him a stomach cramp during the next stage, ending in Morzine.
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Pedro Delgado lost 25 minutes 34 seconds that day, and his first chance of winning the Tour.
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Pedro Delgado ended that Tour in 15th position, 25 minutes 44 seconds behind Fignon.
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Pedro Delgado fought an epic battle with Stephen Roche during the 1987 Tour de France, that was resolved in favour of Roche only in the penultimate stage, an ITT.
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Pedro Delgado was the third best time-trialist that year, but Roche was clearly the best, and both knew that.
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Pedro Delgado won the 1988 Tour de France by a comfortable margin.
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The evening after the 17th stage, the television channel "Antenne2" spread the news that Pedro Delgado had tested positive in a doping test.
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The mistake of the laboratory seemed evident and the technical jury declared that Pedro Delgado had not broken any rule.
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In 1988 the sanction for this type of doping was a penalty of 10 minutes, which was applied to Gert-Jan Theunisse during the same 1988 Tour de France; Pedro Delgado, having been cleared, received no such penalty.
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Pedro Delgado wore the yellow jersey for eleven days, and passed doping tests every day.
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Pedro Delgado thanked the public for their support and claimed he would always be grateful for the support he received during the competition.
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Pedro Delgado did not win the 1989 Tour de France, but it marked, perhaps, his most spectacular performance in the race.
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Pedro Delgado became the only defending champion to begin the race in last place, 2:54 behind Breukink.
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That day he would have been dropped by his team had they not waited, and Pedro Delgado lost more time than in the previous stage, 4:32.
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Pedro Delgado rode the rest of the race on the offensive.
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Pedro Delgado was second in the stage, 24 seconds behind an impressive Greg LeMond.
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Pedro Delgado was now 4th overall, 2:53 behind the leader, Fignon.