There is also impressive riding back-up courtesy of Joseba Beloki, Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano and Isidro Nozal.

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They had been included with Joseba Beloki heading them up, but he quit the team altogether and nothing more was expected of them.

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Ivan Basso, Jan Ullrich, Marco Pantani, and Joseba Beloki look on from a distance, bewildered that after training all their lives they continually stand in your shadow.

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