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47-561: Movistar Team may refer to: Movistar Team (men's team) , a professional cycling team that competes on the UCI World Tour Movistar Team (women's team) , a professional cycling team that competes on the UCI Women's World Tour Movistar–Best PC , an Ecuadorian developmental cycling team that competes on UCI Continental circuits Movistar Team (Continental Team) ,

94-449: A Team Time Trial , to Teun van Vliet . The favourites for the overall victory did not lose time in the first stages. The individual time trial of stage six did not change that, although some outsiders ( Sean Kelly and Laurent Fignon ) lost two minutes. In the eleventh stage, in hilly conditions, the first serious attacks were seen. Most contenders were able to stay in the main group, but Laurent Fignon and Jean-François Bernard lost

141-568: A Tour de France and a Vuelta a España , and was subsequently sponsored by Banesto , under which name the team included five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin and Alex Zülle , twice winner of the Vuelta a España. The team offices are in Egüés , in Navarre , Spain. A later sponsor was Caisse d'Épargne , a French semi-cooperative banking group. Having previously used Pinarello bikes,

188-415: A B-analysis which confirmed the positive A-sample. Arroyo became the first winner of the Vuelta a España to be disqualified. Delgado changed teams in 1985 but returned to Reynolds in 1988 where he won the 1988 Tour de France and then the 1989 Vuelta a España with the team. In 1984, Miguel Induráin made his professional debut with the team. In 1990, Spanish bank Banesto took over as the main sponsor of

235-889: A Grand Tour GC rider with the overall win in the Tour of the Basque Country as well as claiming second place in the Tour de France , taking the King of the Mountains in addition to the Young rider classification. He further reinforced his reputation as a force to be reckoned with, with an overall win in the Vuelta a Burgos . Intxausti got the team's final overall win of the year and Costa won the UCI World Road Race championships. For

282-488: A lot of time and were no longer seen as contenders. The twelfth stage included higher climbs. Delgado escaped on the climb of the Glandon , and he was joined by Steven Rooks . On the descent, they were joined by Gert-Jan Theunisse and Fabio Parra ; the other cyclists were unable to get to them. Close to the finish, Rooks escaped and won the stage, and Delgado became the new leader of the general classification. Delgado won

329-411: A red jersey. The sixth individual classification was the young rider classification . This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders under 25 years were eligible, and the leader wore a white jersey. For the team classification , the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in

376-442: A rule that limited the number of cyclists in a race to 200. In 1987, the Tour had started with 207 cyclists, so because of this rule, the number of teams in the 1988 Tour was reduced from 23 to 22, of 9 riders, a total of 198. 22 teams were announced two weeks before the Tour. The Tour organisation named three reserve teams, in case one of the 22 teams was unable to start: Postobón–Ryalcao , Roland–Colnago and TVM–Van Schilt . Of

423-564: A single stage win in the Tour Down Under , courtesy of Francisco José Ventoso . The team found success with stage wins in the Volta a Catalunya and Tour of the Basque Country . The team also won two stages of the Giro d'Italia : Ventoso won stage 6 and Vasil Kiryienka won stage 20. The team's final Grand Tour win came courtesy of Rui Costa in the Tour de France . The 2012 season saw

470-418: A twice disbanded Colombian developmental cycling team that competed on UCI Continental circuits Movistar Team Ecuador , a defunct Ecuadorian developmental cycling team that competed on UCI Continental circuits Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Movistar Team . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

517-494: A urine sample taken after his Stage 17 win twice tested positive for banned synthetic testosterone as well as a ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone nearly three times the limit allowed by World Anti-Doping Agency rules. After hearing of the positive "A" test, Pereiro stated that it was only an initial, unconfirmed result and he would not yet consider Landis guilty or himself the Tour winner. "I have too much respect for Landis to do otherwise", he said. After hearing that

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564-603: The Route du Sud , Rui Costa the Tour de Suisse , Javier Moreno the Vuelta a Castilla y León and finally Beñat Intxausti won the Vuelta a Asturias . The team also won stages in all three Grand Tours. The 2013 season closely followed the previous years, Valverde scored multiple early season results with the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana and an overall win in the Vuelta a Andalucía . Quintana further reinforced his potential as

611-578: The mountains classification and the combination classification . The young rider classification was won by Erik Breukink , and Frans Maassen won the intermediate sprints classification . Both team classifications were won by the PDM team. During the race, Delgado failed a doping test, but because the product was not yet on the doping list from the Union Cycliste International , he was not penalised. The UCI had also introduced

658-426: The 198 cyclists starting the race, 42 were riding the Tour de France for the first time. The average age of riders in the race was 27.56 years, ranging from the 21-year-old Jean-Claude Colotti ( RMO–Cycles Méral–Mavic ) to the 39-year-old Hennie Kuiper ( Sigma–Fina ). The Caja Rural–Orbea cyclists had the youngest average age while the riders on AD Renting–Anti-M–Bottecchia had the oldest. The teams entering

705-501: The 2014 season the team confirmed that they would shift from Pinarello bikes to Canyon Bicycles . For 2014, the team adopted a 'divide and conquer' based tactic for the season's Grand Tours; first sending Quintana to the Giro, Valverde to the Tour and then finally both riders to the Vuelta. Quintana achieved the team's first victory – winning stage 4 of the Tour de San Luis as well as the overall classification, Adriano Malori also won

752-537: The Landis "B" test also came back positive, Pereiro stated that he now considers himself Tour champion and the Landis scandal should not diminish his own achievement. "Right now I feel like the winner of the Tour de France", Pereiro said. "It's a victory for the whole team." After nearly two years of appeals, Pereiro was officially upgraded to Tour champion for 2006. On 31 May 2010, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld

799-581: The appeals from WADA and the UCI regarding the suspension of Alejandro Valverde for his implication in the Operación Puerto doping case . Valverde was banned for two years, starting 1 January 2010 and after serving the two-year suspension returned to competition in 2012 riding for the Movistar Team. The 2011 season proved to be a transitional one for the team, with their first victory coming as

846-561: The best results finishing fourth overall in the General Classification. Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears finished fifth overall (56 minutes, 53 seconds behind Team T-Mobile ) in the Team Classification at the 2006 Tour de France . Individually, the team's top rider, Óscar Pereiro , finished in second place. The Tour victory of Phonak rider Floyd Landis was almost immediately called into question, after

893-474: The directeur sportif. In 1982 signed a young Pedro Delgado who acted as a domestique for team leader Ángel Arroyo during the 1982 Vuelta a España . Arroyo won the Vuelta after his team controlled the race after he took the lead. 48 hours after his Vuelta win, the results of a positive test were made known for Methylphenidate (Ritalin). Arroyo and the Reynolds team denied that Arroyo doped and asked for

940-400: The fifteenth stage, Delgado increased his lead. He let Laudelino Cubino get away and claim the victory, because Cubino was no threat for the general classification, and finished in third place, gaining time on all his direct competitors. Delgado further increased his lead in the nineteenth stage, by leaving the other cyclists behind him on the final climb of the day. Delgado was aiming to win

987-474: The individual time trial stage. Once again Valverde won the Vuelta a Andalucía as well as the Vuelta a Murcia, Roma Maxima , GP Miguel Induráin and La Flèche Wallonne . In May, Quintana won the team's first Grand Tour since Valverde's 2009 Vuelta victory, the 2014 Giro d'Italia . As with the previous season, Quintana defended his Vuelta a Burgos title winning it for the second straight year. In August 2014,

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1034-423: The king of the mountains classification. During the 2016 Tour , the team finished first in the teams classification by 8' 14" over Team Sky. Nairo Quintana made the podium by finishing third overall in the general classification standings and Ion Izagirre claimed victory on stage 20. Later during the 2016 Vuelta a España , Quintana won stage 10 and the overall. The team concluded the year with their fourth win in

1081-480: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movistar_Team&oldid=1188384715 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Movistar Team (men%27s team) The team was formed as Reynolds , led by Ángel Arroyo and later by Pedro Delgado , who won

1128-430: The most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey. There was also a mountains classification . The organisation had categorised some climbs as either hors catégorie , first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with

1175-470: The most points lead the classification, and wore a white jersey with red polka dots . There was also a combination classification . This classification was calculated as a combination of the other classifications, its leader wore the combination jersey. Another classification was the intermediate sprints classification . This classification had similar rules as the points classification, but only points were awarded on intermediate sprints. Its leader wore

1222-406: The next stage, an uphill individual time trial, and solidified his lead. In the fourteenth stage, the favourites stayed together, and other cyclists were allowed to go for the stage victory. Philippe Bouvatier and Robert Millar, who had led over the previous two cols, were in the uphill sprint to win, until Bouvatier allowed himself to be misdirected by a gendarme 200 metres before the finish (at

1269-477: The point where the team cars were separated from the cyclists) followed by Millar, and the victory went to Massimo Ghirotto . Ghirotto offered his prize (a new car) to Bouvatier though Millar maintained he would have overhauled Bouvatier to win and told CyclingNews in 2010 that "I don't know if the gendarme was to blame, I don't think he was, I know I would have come round Bouvatier in the sprint but then I ought to have dropped him before we got to that stage". In

1316-464: The race second overall behind Giovannetti. Over the following years, Indurain rose to become a dominator of stage races winning five editions of the Tour de France and two editions of the Giro d'Italia . Delgado was the team leader for the Vuelta. The team also achieved success with Jean-François Bernard who won the 1992 edition of Paris–Nice with the team. The team won the Vuelta again in 1998 with Abraham Olano . During this time Alex Zülle joined

1363-421: The race were: The winner of the 1987 Tour de France , Stephen Roche , was unable to defend his title as he was coming back from knee surgeries. The winner from 1986 , Greg LeMond , had still not fully recovered from the hunting accident that caused him to miss the 1987 Tour, and did not start this Tour. Remaining favourites were Pedro Delgado , who had finished in second place in 1987, and Andrew Hampsten ,

1410-408: The recorded times of the 'preface' were not used for the Tour, but the cyclist with the fastest time would wear the yellow jersey at the start of the Tour de France (first stage). The total length of this Tour was 3,286 kilometres (2,042 mi), which was the shortest since 1906. Since 1910, Belgian cyclists had won at least one stage in every Tour, but in 1988 they did not win any stages. There

1457-472: The second sponsor in the 2005 season, the team was then known as Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne . Caisse d'Epargne then became the main sponsor in 2006 reversing the title sponsor ordering with the name, Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears . The team fielded a number of strong contenders in the 2005 Tour de France including Francisco Mancebo ( former National Champion of Spain ), Alejandro Valverde , Vladimir Karpets and sprinter Isaac Gálvez . Mancebo produced

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1504-551: The team and finished the 1999 Tour de France second overall while climber José María Jiménez performed in the Vuelta a España. The team became known as iBanesto.com in the final years of the sponsorship of the Banesto bank. In 2004, Illes Balears , the Balearic Island's Tourism Board, became the team's principal sponsor, the team's name was Illes Balears-Banesto until 2005. Caisse d'Epargne took over from Banesto as

1551-447: The team announced the signing of Marc Soler ( Lizarte ) and Rubén Fernández ( Caja Rural–Seguros RGA ) on a 2-year contract. At the 2015 Tour de France , the team finished first in the teams classification, and the two top men of the team, Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde finished second and third in the general classification, respectively, with Quintana also winning the white jersey as best young rider, and finishing second in

1598-514: The team doctor of the PDM team showed that all but one of the PDM cyclist were given doping in the 1988 Tour de France. The owners of the Tour de France thought that director Louy had handled the Delgado affair in the wrong way, and they fired him later that year. They appointed Jean-Marie Leblanc as his replacement. There were several classifications in the 1988 Tour de France, six of them awarding jerseys to their leaders. The most important

1645-422: The team from Reynolds. Delgado was the team leader for the Tour de France while Miguel Induráin and Julián Gorospe were the leaders for the week long stage races. When Gorospe took the lead in that year's Vuelta, the team went behind him in a bid to win the race. Gorospe lost the leader's jersey and Delgado took over the leadership but could not regain the time that Italian Marco Giovannetti had gained and ended

1692-516: The team ranking of 2016 UCI World Tour . In 2019, Richard Carapaz won the Giro d'Italia , and the team won the team classification in all three Grand Tours. The team's season is captured in a documentary series, The Least Expected Day: Inside the Movistar Team 2019 , available on Netflix . 1988 Tour de France The 1988 Tour de France was the 75th edition of the Tour de France , taking place from 4 to 24 July. It consisted of 22 stages over 3,286 km (2,042 mi). The race

1739-515: The team re-establish itself as one of the major general classification contenders. The return of Valverde almost immediately brought the team success with a stage win in the Tour Down Under, followed by the overall win of the Vuelta a Andalucía as well as a stage win. Colombian new recruit Nairo Quintana also brought the team overall victory at the Vuelta a Murcia . The team scored multiple overall classification victories; Quintana claimed

1786-419: The team rode Canyon frames in 2014, with Campagnolo parts. Since 2008, Eusebio Unzué has been the manager of the team after the long running manager, José Miguel Echavarri , retired from the sport. The directeurs sportifs of the team are José Vicente García , Pablo Lastras , José Luis Jaimerena , Patxi Vila and Max Sciandri . The team began in 1980 as the Reynolds team which José Miguel Echavarri as

1833-472: The team that led this classification were identified by yellow caps . For the last time, there was also a team points classification. Cyclists received points according to their finishing position on each stage, with the first rider receiving one point. The first three finishers of each team had their points combined, and the team with the fewest points led the classification. The riders of the team leading this classification wore green caps. In addition, there

1880-426: The twenty-first stage, an individual time trial, and was leading at all the intermediate check points, but lost time in the final part of the stage, finishing in fourth place. This was more than enough to secure the overall victory. During the race, it was announced that doping tests of Pedro Delgado and Gert-Jan Theunisse indicated they had used doping products. In Delgado's case, it was probenecid . Probenecid

1927-606: The winner of the 1988 Giro d'Italia , several weeks before the Tour. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) introduced the rule that a cycling race could not span three weekends. The Tour de France could only start on Monday 4 July, and therefore the usual prologue was removed. The Tour organisers, who were not happy with this restriction, lately had the idea to add to the Tour an unofficial short time trial on sunday 3 July called 'prelude' or 'preface'. Each team would ride for 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi), and one cyclist per team would then finish one kilometre on his own. Of course,

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1974-451: Was a combativity award given after each mass-start stage to the cyclist considered most combative. The decision was made by a jury composed of journalists who gave points. The cyclist with the most points from votes in all stages led the combativity classification. Jérôme Simon won this classification, and was given overall the super-combativity award. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to

2021-613: Was a doping product according to the International Olympic Committee not yet on the doping list of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), so Delgado was not sanctioned, and he remained the winner of the Tour. Tour director Louy tried to convince Delgado to leave the race voluntarily, but Delgado refused. Delgado admits that he took probenecid, but with the intention to assist the kidneys, not to mask anabolic steroids. Theunisse

2068-414: Was found to have a high testosterone -level, which was on the UCI doping list. Theunisse received a penalty of ten minutes, which dropped him from fifth place to eleventh place in the general classification. One other cyclist was penalised during this Tour: Spanish cyclist Roque de la Cruz failed a doping test after the sixth stage, and was given the same penalty as Theunisse. In 2013, a notebook from

2115-448: Was one rest day, during which the cyclists were transferred from Villard-de-Lans to Blagnac. The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,115 m (6,939 ft) at the summit of the Col du Tourmalet mountain pass on stage 15. The prelude before the official start was won by Guido Bontempi , and the first real stage was won by Steve Bauer . Bauer lost the lead in the next stage,

2162-450: Was the general classification , calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour. Additionally, there was a points classification , where cyclists were given points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with

2209-412: Was won by Pedro Delgado with the top three positions at the end of the race being occupied by specialist climbers. This Tour was nearly 1,000 km shorter than the previous few editions, which were over 4,000 km, but by no means easier as it included five consecutive mountain stages including a mountain time trial. The points classification was won by Eddy Planckaert , while Steven Rooks won

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