Óscar Pereiro
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Óscar Pereiro Sío |
| Born |
August 3, 1977 Mos, Galicia, Spain |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | All-rounder |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2000–2001 | Porta da Ravessa |
| 2002–2005 | Phonak |
| 2006–2009 | Caisse d'Epargne–Illes Balears |
| 2010 | Astana |
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Óscar Pereiro Sío (pronounced: [ˈos.kaɾ pe.reˈi.ro ˈsi.o]; born August 3, 1977) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer. Pereiro won the 2006 Tour de France, after the original winner Floyd Landis was disqualified for failing a doping test after his stage 17 victory. Pereiro is a former member of Porta da Ravessa (2000 to 2001), Phonak Hearing Systems (2002 to 2005), Caisse d'Epargne (2006 to 2009), and the Astana cycling team (2010). After retiring from cycling in 2010, Pereiro joined his local part-time football club Coruxo FC of the Segunda División B.
Pereiro placed tenth in the 2004 Tour de France, 22 minutes 54 seconds behind original winner Lance Armstrong, who was subsequently disqualified. He was awarded the Most Aggressive Rider Award in the 2005 Tour de France after powering the winning breakaways in Stages 15, 16 and 19. He was the Stage 16 winner - just edging out Spain's Xabier Zandio, Italy's Eddy Mazzoleni and Australia's Cadel Evans. His efforts on Stage 15, the toughest stage of the Tour, were highly admired by the peloton. He finished second that day to Discovery Channel's George Hincapie after "pulling" for most of the final climb up the Pla D'Adet. In January 2014, Pereiro confessed on a radio show he sold this stage to Hincapie, making the deal some kilometers before arriving to the finish line.
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