65th Tour of Portugal
Updated: 14-Aug-2003
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• Cyclists prepare to leave Albufeira marina
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Portugal’s hopes rest with 2000 winner Vitor Gamito and veteran Orlando Rodrigues, who won back-to-back races in 1994 and 1995. Joaquim Agostinho, after whom the winner’s trophy is named, is the most successful rider in the Tour’s history, which began in 1927.
Victorious in 1970, ’71 and ’72, legend has it that he was pedalling along an Alentejan road, minding his own business, when the main peloton overtook him, he joined the race and promptly won! Whether this is fact or fiction I don’t know. One truth is that only the hardiest of riders will finish next Sunday in what are probably the most testing conditions for many a year. S.B.
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