Giuseppe Guerini
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Giuseppe Guerini (born 14 February 1970 in Gazzaniga, Bergamo province, Italy) is a professional cyclist. He cycles with the T-Mobile Team and has done so since 1999 (though the team was then called Team Telekom). He has, however, been a professional cyclist since 1993 - being a member of two other teams: Navigare and Polti. In this time he has moved to the Vertova - as well as completing 6 Tour de Frances, 4 Giro d'Italias, and 5 Vuelta a Espaņas. He is particularly adept in climbing mountains.
His career highlights include third place in the 1997 Giro d'Italia, third place 1998 Giro d'Italia, a stage win in the 1998 Route du Sud, a stage win in the 1998 Giro Portugallo, a stage win in the 1999 Tour de France, a stage win in the 2002 Catalonian Week, and second place in the 2003 Tour de Suisse. He became famous after his stage win in the 1999 Tour de France. He won the stage on Alpe d'Huez one of the hardest and most famous climbs of the Tour de France. When he was in the leading position, a German photographer jumped before him only a couple of hundreds of metres before the finish line. He hit the photografer and fell on the ground. However he managed to stand up again and won the stage. Later the photographer apologized for what he has done. The foto he wanted to make failed.
He took part in the 2004 Tour de France.