Rujano faces Colombians looking for payback

Jose Rujano

Jose Rujano (Image credit: Vuelta Pilsen a Colombia)

Venezuelan cycling star José Rujano begins his build-up to what he insists will be a victory challenge at the Giro d’Italia by taking on many of Latin America’s best riders in the Vuelta al Táchira, which starts tomorrow (Wednesday).

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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