Cycling - Giro d'Italia 1997 Part 1

The 1997 Giro d'Italia was the 80th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began on May 17 with a mass-start stage that began and ended in Venice. The race came to a close on June 8 with a mass-start stage that ended in the Italian city of Milan. Eighteen teams entered the race that was won by the Italian Ivan Gotti of the Saeco team. Second and third were the Russian rider Pavel Tonkov and Italian Giuseppe Guerini.
In the race's other classifications, Kelme-Costa Blanca rider Chepe González won the mountains classification, Mario Cipollini of the Saeco team won the points classification, and Roslotto-ZG Mobili rider Dimitri Konyshev won the intergiro classification. Kelme - Costa Blanca 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 Saeco.

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The Giro d EPO.

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This race was in the EPO era, near about the middle of it. Watch this stage.....probably anyone contending for the victory was doped, whether or not there is testing evidence to support my supposition. That era is past. Nothing to be done about it. 1997 was 25 years ago.....a lifetime in professional cycling.
No, doping is not to be condoned and they should not have doped, but many did. I prefer being philosophical about it; that was something from the last century. Racing has moved on.