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Aupa Igor!: The Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano diary
Nationality: Spanish
Team: ONCE
Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano finished second in the 1999 Vuelta and fifth in the 2002 Tour de France, and is a multiple stage winner in the Vuelta as well as being ONCE's leader.
He was sidelined for the 2003 Tour after breaking his collarbone in June, at the same time fighting French bureaucracy over a non-UCI positive drug test for the asthma drug salbutamol. He did write an insightful diary for Cyclingnews readers which was widely appreciated.
Now he's back with his thoughts on the 2003 Vuelta - this time from a competitor's point of view.
The Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano diary is translated from Castellano by Martin Hardie
2003 entries
Vuelta a España
- Stage 16-17 - High speed train, direction Madrid
- September 22 - Another rest day
- Stages 12-13 - Onwards and upwards
- Stage 11 - The balance is good
- Stages 9-10 - Just down from the mountains
- Stages 6-8 - No rest
- Stages 4-5 - Petacchi the idol
- Stage 3 - Hard to control
- Stages 1-2 - An excellent start
Tour de France entries
- Stage 20 - It's all over
- Stage 19 - It had to happen
- Stages 17-18 - The breakaways that hurt
- Stage 16 - The Tour does not rest
- Stage 15 - It was incredible again today!
- Stage 14 - How naive I was!
- Stage 13 - A new rider to succeed Armstrong?
- Stage 12 - Ullrich shows his candidacy
- Stage 11 - The Tour has arrived at its important part
- Stage 10 - Cheer up, Joseba
- Stage 8 - An incredible spectacular
- Stage 7 - Hot and hard
- Stage 5 - Forget Mario; Petacchi the next dominator
- Stage 4 - A beautiful race
- Stage 3 - The script continues & TTT predictions
- Stage 2 - A tranquil stage
- Stage 1 - Authoritative victory; Unnecessary crashes
- Prologue - The first psychological strikes are made
