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    Alex Zülle (born 5 July 1968) is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer. During the 1990s he was one of the most successful cyclists in the world...
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    Mallorca, Alex Zülle Stage 2, Laurent Jalabert Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, Alex Zülle Stage 2a, Laurent Jalabert Stage 2b, Alex Zülle Overall...
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    Zülle escaped, and created a margin of several minutes. Indurain calmly chased him until the final climb, where he sped away from the others. Zülle won...
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    name the team included 5-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin and Alex Zülle, twice winner of the Vuelta a España. The team offices are in Egüés, in...
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    the summit of the Sestriere climb on stage 9. The prologue was won by Alex Zülle two seconds ahead of specialist Chris Boardman as overall contenders Bjarne...
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    during the passage, leading to the crash that cost pre-race favourites Alex Zülle, Christophe Rinero and Michael Boogerd more than five minutes to the lead...
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  • descent, taking advantage of Zülle's weak descending skills. Rominger managed to distance Zülle, which led to the inexperienced Zülle panicking, running wide...
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  • Festina riders (Zülle, Dufaux, Moreau, Brochard and Meier) admitted to doping while Virenque and Hervé maintained their innocence. Zülle claimed that he...
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    third person to win all these classifications in a single Grand Tour. Alex Zülle won two Vueltas in succession in 1996 and 1997. German Jan Ullrich was...
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    Prologue, Stages 1 & 3, Laurent Dufaux Stage 4b, Alex Zülle Prologue, Stages 6 & 15 Giro d'Italia, Alex Zülle Circuito de Getxo, Marcel Wüst Stage 6 Critérium...
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    important rider. Fernando Escartín, Bobby Julich, Alexander Vinokourov and Alex Zülle were also considered contenders. 17 teams were automatically selected...
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  • victorious, but only took out 13 seconds on Zülle and Tonkov. On the next day, a long time trial in Trieste, Zülle caught Pantani on the road and finished...
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    home. Indurain won the prologue, with debutant Alex Zülle in second place. In the first stage, Zülle won a time bonus in an intermediate sprint, and...
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    following year, beating fellow Spaniard Abraham Olano by forty-nine seconds. Alex Zülle, the 1996 Vuelta a España winner, won the rainbow jersey in his home country...
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    France, including four stages. Armstrong beat the second place rider, Alex Zülle, by 7 minutes 37 seconds. However, the absence of Jan Ullrich (injury)...
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    1993 Tour started in the same way as the 1992 Tour: Indurain won, with Alex Zülle in second place. The next stages were flat, and all finished in mass sprints...
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  • wins: Abraham Olano, Alex Zülle, and Tony Rominger, 6 Most number of victories by country: Spain, 32 Most days as leader: Alex Zülle, 48 Most mountains...
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  • win". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 2014-05-21. "Alex Zülle". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original...
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    confessed to taking performance-enhancing drugs, with the first being Alex Zülle. The only riders to deny the allegations were Virenque and Neil Stephens...
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  • Indurain (ESP)  Abraham Olano (ESP) 1996  Johan Museeuw (BEL)  Bjarne Riis (DEN)  Alex Zülle (SUI) 1997  Jan Ullrich (GER)  Laurent Jalabert (FRA)  Marco Pantani (ITA)...
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    peloton which ended the hopes of many favourites to win the race, including Alex Zülle, who would eventually finish second overall. The Passage du Gois was used...
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  • successive years. He won by 4' 42", the largest margin of victory since Alex Zülle won by 5' 07" in 1997. He first took the red jersey on the first stage...
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  • speed of 39.449 km/h (24.512 mph). The favourites were Laurent Jalabert, Alex Zülle, Jan Ullrich and defending champion Abraham Olano. In the end, Ullrich...
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  • of 22 stages covering a total of 3,773 km (2,344 mi), and was won by Alex Zülle of the ONCE cycling team. "Vuelta Espana 97 – Clasificaciones" (PDF)....
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    Armstrong 2001  United States 7 38' 10" Miguel Indurain 1995  Spain 7 38' 10" Alex Zülle 1995  Switzerland 8 38' 12" Bjarne Riis 1995  Denmark 9 38' 22" Richard...
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    1996 Pavel Tonkov (1/1) Bjarne Riis (1/1) Alex Zülle (1/2) 1997 Ivan Gotti (1/2) Jan Ullrich (1/2) Alex Zülle (2/2) 1998 Marco Pantani (1/2) Marco Pantani...
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    Belgium 1935–1936 0 0 2 2 José Manuel Fuente Spain 1972–1974 0 0 2 2 Alex Zülle Switzerland 1996–1997 0 0 2 2 Egan Bernal Colombia 2019–2021 1 1 0 2 Hugo...
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    Cyclist Team Time 1  Lance Armstrong (USA) U.S. Postal Service 8' 02" 2  Alex Zülle (SUI) Banesto + 7" 3  Abraham Olano (ESP) ONCE–Deutsche Bank + 11" 4  Christophe...
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    Giro d'Italia. Other contenders included Alex Zülle, 1996 winner Pavel Tonkov and 1997 winner Ivan Gotti. Zülle won the initial prologue in Nice and also...
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    France saw him return in the wet and rainy prologue where he was beaten by Alex Zülle and finished in second place. Boardman won bronze in the 52 km road time...
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