All three are aboard Colnago C40s as team sponsor Georgio Squinzi instructs that Museeuw should win. His Mapei team-mates Andrea Tafi and Wilfried Peeters take second and third after powering the breakaway from which Ballerini springboards to victory.īelgian Johan Museeuw crosses the line first at Paris-Roubaix in a choroegraphed finish after he and Mapei team-mates Gianluca Bortolami and Andrea Tafi escape with 86km to go and prove unstoppable. Powering his Colnago C40 on his own for the final 70km, on a day marked by foul weather and a crash by his team leader Johan Museeuw, Franco Ballerini takes his second Paris-Roubaix win. He had a training philosophy where he rode shorter distances than most pro cyclists, sometimes covering only about half the distance his colleagues would. He has won the cycling monument Milan – San Remo three times, four stages in the Tour de France and seven stages of the Vuelta a España, throughout a successful career.ĭespite his diminutive stature, Freire was a good sprinter. In the later years of his career, he has been more of a classics rider. He was one of the top sprinters in road bicycle racing, having won the world championship three times, equalling Alfredo Binda, Rik Van Steenbergen and Eddy Merckx. Óscar Freire Gómez (born 15 February 1976 in Torrelavega, Cantabria) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer.
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