Mario Cipollini

Mario Cipollini (born the March 23rd 1967 with Lucques, Tuscan -) is a runner cyclist Italy N.

Biography

professional Cyclist since 1989. Cippolini knows the following teams: “Del Tongo” (1989-91), “GB-MG” (1992-93), “Mercatone Uno” (1994-95), “Saeco” (1996-2001), “Acqua & Sapone” (2002), “Dominated Vacanze” (2003-04) and “Liquigas-Bianchi” in 2005.
First victory in 1989: a stage of the Turn of Pouilles.
extravagant and odd Runner, Cipollini is regarded as the sprinter more endowed with his generation. He revolutionized the technique besides of it, being the first to use a genuine train of team-members to carry out it until the final sprint. This technique being made possible by its unequalled capacity to maintain the rate/rhythm very fast imposed by its team-members until the arrival. N the other hand and of its own consent, it did not have the capacities of the other sprinters with " frotter" and to go up adversaries at the time of the sprint.

Large specialist in the victories of stages at the time of the first days of the races with stages, Mario Cipollini forever buckled a Tour de France in spite of eight participations, because of the characteristic of this race to very comprise several stages of high mountain during the second week. Adulated for these victories and his charisma by some, this cyclist are hated per many amateurs of the Tour de France, probably frustrated by a less telegenic spectable and which regarded it as a “robber of stages”. The direction of the Tour de France ends up refusing to invite its Saeco team several years of continuation.
In 2005, with the Italian team Liquigas, " Cipo" will gain two victories: one with the Turn of Qatar, in front of Tom Boonen, and ultimate in the Turn of Lucques, in front of Alessandro Petacchi.
the April 26th 2005, at 38 years, it announces its departure with the retirement thirteen days before the kickoff of the Turn of Italy 2005 from which it holds the record of the number of victory of stage. Departure with the retirement which he had already announced in 2002 following the not-selection of his team to the Tour de France. It will reconsider its decision a few weeks later and will remove in the tread three stages of the Turn of Spain as well as the Championship of the World.

1992 : Abandonment 7th stage
1993: Except time 11th stage, victorious of a stage and carrying the yellow jersey during 2 days
1995: Abandonment 10th stage and victorious of two stages
1996: Abandonment 5th stage and victorious of a stage
1997: Abandonment 6th stage, victorious of two stages and carrying the yellow jersey during 3 days
1998: Abandonment 9th stage and victorious of two stages
1999: Abandonment 9th stage and victorious of four consecutive stages (Blois, Amiens, Maubeuge and Thionville)
2004: Abandonment 6th stage

1989 : Abandonment and victorious of a stage
1990: 142e of the general classification and victorious of two stages
1991: 124e of the general classification and victorious of three stages
1992: 126e of general classification, victorious of four stages and better sprinter
1995: Abandonment and victorious of two stages
1996: Abandonment and victorious of four stages
1997: Abandonment and victorious of five stages
1998: Abandonment and victorious of four stages
1999: Abandonment and victorious of four stages
2000: Abandonment (7th stage) and victorious of a stage
2001: 107e of the general classification and victorious of four stages
2002: 100e of general classification, victorious of six stages, better sprinter and pink shirt during one day
2003: Abandonment (12th stage) and victorious of two stages
2004: Abandonment (7th stage)

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