José Rujano: I’m the third best climber in the world

Will 2010 finally see a renaissance of the astounding climbing talents of José Rujano, that carried him to third place in the 2005 Giro d’Italia? The 27-year-old Venezuelan certainly believes so and has claimed that he will aim to not only ride this year’s Giro for his new team ISD-Neri, but win it. This will happen, he believes, because he is "the third best climber in the world".

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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