Vuelta Stage 17**Spoiler**

gabriel959

samb01 wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

derbygrimpeur wrote:

Oscar Pereiro

Pereiro had finished in the top ten of the TDF twice before 2006.

Yup, but he did that by getting into more or less every damn break of the day, and on top of that he was always the hardest worker in whatever break he was in.

The only time I remember him playing it smart and actually taking a breather for the last few kilometeres before the finish was the day after he had pulled Hincapie to his infamous mountain top win. Pereiro won that day.

After being gifted the TdF he went from being the most aggressive rider in the TdF-peloton to being an anonymous wheel-follower.

I don't think anyone has said that Pereiro was clean although admitedly he did do Top 10 again the year after he won the Tour.