Pedro Delgado Robledo born 15 April 1960 also known as Perico is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer He won the 1988 Tour de France as well as the Vuelta a España in 1985 and 1989 Delgado is 171 centimetres tall 5 ft 712 in and used to weigh 64 kilograms 141 lb He was a good climber with an aggressive style making cycling a spectacle which gained him fans On one hand there were days when he was extremely successful attacking On the other he occasionally suffered from big losses of time due to mistakes or strokes of bad luck He was also a good timetrialist until the nineties when it became difficult for him to adapt to technical changes in the timetrial bicycles The ending of the 1987 Tour de France and the 1985 Vuelta a España and the whole 1989 Tour are among his more memorable participations in major competitions Delgado tested positive for the known masking agent Probenecid during the 1988 tour The drug which had been placed on the International Olympic Committees list of banned substances in January of that year was not banned by the sports governing body the Union Cycliste Internationale it was a month later as a consequence Delgado was allowed to continue racing and was not charged with any doping offence Delgado was such a consistently strong rider that he finished in the top 10 of eighteen Grand Tours He works now as a sports commentator for Televisión Española during important cycling events Delgado inspired the name of the Scottish indierock band The Delgados Delgado took part in the Tour de France eleven times During his first participation when he was 23 he rose to second place in the overall classification after the 17th stage before falling back later in the event From then on Delgado was determined to achieve victory in this competition In 1983 the Reynolds team participated in the Tour for the first time Delgado was a young rider and Ángel Arroyo was the star of the team That year the Tour had four individual time trials ITT plus the prologue and six mountainous stages so Delgado had enough opportunities to show his talent After the 17th stage Delgado was second in the overall classification 108 behind Laurent Fignon another 23yearold rider competing in the Tour for the first time Unfortunately Delgado drank a spoilt milk shake that caused him a stomach cramp during the next stage ending in Morzine He lost 25 minutes 34 seconds that day and his first chance of winning the Tour Delgado ended that Tour in 15th position 25 minutes 44 seconds behind Fignon It was not the only setback he had in this race On the contrary in different years he suffered the fracture of a clavicle the death of his mother during a stage the communication of a positive result in a dope test that finally proved false but after it was filtered to the media gastroenteritis and a tremendous mistake that led him to lose seven minutes in the first two days of the tour of 1989 Source Article Pedro Delgado from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30