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  • Fact checked:

    Indurain won the prologue and the ITT ✅ at the end of the first week ✅ (and his brother was last) ✅ but didn’t win the final TT, which Tony Rominger won ✅.

    I think Cipollini won a sprint ✅ , but so did Abdoujaparov ✅ (it's spelled Abduzhaparov on PCS) and Nelissen ✅ . Bruyneel won a flat stage ✅ across northern France that was, at the time, the fastest ever road stage in the Tour ✅ CBA to check properly but it was super fast and close to 99's Cipo record . Bjaarne Riis ✅then won a stage ahead of Max Sciandri ✅, which was hysterical, mainly for the latter’s post stage interview on British TV
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    In the Alps, Rominger won two stages ✅, ahead of Indurain✅ , Hampsten ✅, Alvaro Mejia ✅ and Zenon Jaskula ✅, who must’ve got his EPO programme spot on (he has only admitted to cortisone and caffeine). Fabio Roscioli won a stage to Marseille ✅ after a long break ✅ . Zaskula won a stage in the Pyrenees ✅ , as did Chiappucci ✅ . I think Abdoujaparov won three stages in the end ✅, including the Paris stage ✅.

  • Is that just Sciandri being disappointed with second as a decent finisher, or is it a guy realising Riis has found much better dope than everyone else? I’m guessing Sciandri wasn’t a wildly bad doper?

  • I think Sciandri wasn’t arguing from a position of strength. If memory serves, he shared a coach with Riis. They were definitely regular training partners.

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