1996 Giro d'Italia
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The 1996 Giro d'Italia was the 79th edition of the Giro. It began on 18 May with a mass-start stage that began and ended in the Greek capital Athens. The race came to a close on 9 June with a mass-sta
Athens hosted the start and finish of the first stage, while the race stayed in Greece for another two days before transferring into Italy.
Pascal Hervé (pictured in 2000) gained enough time during the event's sixth stage to take the race lead, although he lost it following the next stage.
Mario Cipollini (pictured at the 1997 Paris–Nice) won the most stages at the race, with four.
Pavel Tonkov (pictured in 2005) won a single stage en route to his overall victory.
Piotr Ugrumov
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Piotr Ugrumov is a former Russian-Latvian professional road racing cyclist who participated for Latvia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, though he was a part of the Russian delegation at the
1996 Giro d'Italia
…him win the Giro in 1994. Berzin also had a fully committed team to support him this year, unlike in the previous edition where he and his teammate Piotr Ugrumov did not cooperate and worked against each other. Lluis Simon of El Punt felt Olano had performed better than Berzin in the recent Tour de Romandie…
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