This short documentary covers one of the most astonishing breakaway in professional cycling history which took place during Fleche-Wallonne race in 1994. Even though since early 90s there were many unexpected performance gains in world peloton and unproved doping cases the Fleche-Wallonne shown kind of dominance never seen earlier. Only three riders from Gewiss-Ballan team: Moreno Argentin, Evgeni Berzin, GiorgioFurlan made breakaway at about 70 km to finish. Despite very strong chasing group with Claudio Chiappucci, Lance Armstrong, Gianni Bugno, Francesco Casagrande, Franco Ballerini, Davide Cassani, Gerard Rue and many others the trio never got caught. The race course was so unbelievable that media and sports analysts started to suspect heavy EPO (performance enhancing drug) abuse. At this level it was almost impossible to perform such a long breakaway (70km) and escape from the pack of high-profile riders.
Scottish cyclists watching this rout in southern Belgium on Eurosport were thinking: “this is too good to be true.”
At that time infamous Michele Ferrari was a team doctor at Gewiss-Ballan team. Although he was fired from the team he became most wanted advisor and training consultant in professional cycling.

Additional sources and publications:
[ Ссылка ]
[ Ссылка ]
[ Ссылка ]
[ Ссылка ]

свернуть