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2009 Giro D'Italia DVD (4 Hour)
2009 Giro D’Italia Big Tex is Back Four years after Lance Armstrong stepped off the Champs Elysées podium in Paris, unbeaten to the last, cycling’s ultimate champion has returned. But Armstrong’s choosing new terrain. The Tour of Italy – as hard as the Tour de France, if not harder. From the Dolomites, to the Alps, to the volcanic Mount Vesuvius itself, every single contender in the 2009 Tour of Italy has but one aim – to prove that Armstrong can finally be vanquished. That the giant of stage race cycling will finally crumble and fall. The list of Armstrong’s rivals is formidable. There’s the wiliest of Italian veterans, Gilberto Simoni. There’s the ultra-talented Ivan Basso. There’s the ever-tenacious Denis Menchov. And there’s the punchy, aggressive, Danilo Di Luca. All of them have won at least one major Tour before. Some have won two. They all know a victory over Armstrong will place them firmly in the pantheon of cycling legend. At 37, three years after he rode his last major Tour, can Armstrong rise to the challenge? A broken collarbone in March has already set him back in his daunting quest – and his rivals are closing in. The Giro D’Italia: it’s Lance Armstrong’s toughest mission yet. Commentary by Phil Liggett & Paul Sherwen.
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