Cycling - Giro d'Italia 1998 Part 1

The 1998 Giro d'Italia was the 81st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began on May 16 with a brief 8 km (5 mi) prologue that navigated through the streets of the French city Nice. The race came to a close on June 7 with a mass-start stage that ended in the Italian city of Milan. Eighteen teams entered the race that was won by the Italian Marco Pantani of the Mercatone Uno-Bianchi team. Second and third were the Russian rider Pavel Tonkov and Italian Giuseppe Guerini.
In the race's other classifications, overall winner Marco Pantani also won the mountains classification, Mariano Piccoli of the Brescialat-Liquigas team won the points classification, and Saeco Macchine per Caffè rider Gian Matteo Fagnini won the intergiro classification. Mapei-Bricobi finished as the winners of the Trofeo Fast Team classification, ranking each of the eighteen teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. The other team classification, the Trofeo Super Team classification, where the teams' riders are awarded points for placing within the top twenty in each stage and the points are then totaled for each team was won by Team Polti.

[@apoire44]

Crazy how Pantani was constantly attacking since the first days of the Giro

[@RLSouza83]

Watch from Brazil I Ride the bike here frequently

[@conornolan8556]

Thanks for the upload. My God those sunglasses

[@tdogg223]

Pantani's year!

[@doltonkenway1056]

Rip Marco Pantani the legend

[@gaporion1973]

you are simply a great

[@uberkloden]

Pantani, LeMonds favorite cyclist/

[@joevuch7981]

came here for the golden age of doping... did not disappoint

[@klauslass6766]

And it does, far more sophisticated, go on today, surprise, surprise. And football, and athletics and......any pro-sports.

[@hermanngerman8002]

EPONTANI!

[@ilrebo]

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