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A few days before the Giro (May 9 to June 1, 2025), the star runner returned this Saturday, May 3, on the highlights of his career as well as his doping charges.
Vincenzo Nibali is one of the great Italian cyclists, he won the Tour de France in 2014, Un Vuelta (2010), two Giro (2013 and 2016). He also distinguished himself in the classics by winning the Tour de Lombardie in 2015 and 2017 as well as Milan-San Remo in 2018. Retired since 2022, he engaged in Corriere della Serrain an interview, he discusses his career and his media exhibition.
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“J ‘was overwhelmed, crushed by popularity, requests, fans and journalists. When we walked with the baby in the stroller, they attacked us. With my wife, we just wanted to flee everything and everyone. Then we got used to it, but it was not by stopping the competition that I really started to live, “he said.
“The head high, always”
After his victory on the Tour de France in 2014, Vincenzo Nibali was the target of many doping charges. He spoke of the suspicion that surrounded him: “I won, I was Italian and the boss of my team, Vinokourov, had an ambiguous past like other managers. I was followed, they searched my car and checked my phone, and I am sure they also searched my house to find proofs that did not exist”.
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The Italian continues “his head high, always”. “The cyclists were easy targets. I have never boosted myself in my life and, above all, I never thought about it. They checked me a million times, they can test test pieces in 100 years.”
