Cycling Weekly – August 22, 2019

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Photo Yuzuru Sunada

T

here have been few Grand

Tour victories as dominant as

Tony Rominger’s at the Vuelta

in 1994. Taking the yellow

jersey in the opening time trial, he never

relinquished it and crossed the finish line

in Madrid as race leader. He might even

have won the points jersey as well had

Laurent Jalabert not won that final stage

to secure it for himself.

In the process he notched up another

time trial win and wins in two of the

mountain stages.

His Vuelta victory was historic as it

capped a trio of successive wins at the

race, a record that is still yet to be broken.

Plus, it was the final edition to be held in

the spring as the following year the Vuelta

moved to its current late-summer slot in

the cycling calendar.

It was a banner year for the Swiss rider

as in November and October he would

go on to set successively longer Hour

records, the second one of 55.291k m was

actually slightly longer than the current

UCI Hour record of Victor Campenaerts

under the 2014 revised rules.

Stage 10,

Vuelta a España

May 3, 1994