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Alejandro “El Imbatido / The Unbeaten” Valverde Belmonte grew up in a cycling family, and was given his first bike by his father – an amateur rider – at the age of six.
Aged eleven he placed second in his very first race, and two weeks after took his first victory. Valverde dominated the junior field in Spain, and won nearly every race, in which he participated, for the following five years. He was in fact so good that parents tried to convince him not to race certain event to allow other kids the opportunity to win.