Delgado's final advantage over the second rider in the overall classification, Steven Rooks, was 7:13 minutes.
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He was second in the stage, 24 seconds behind an impressive Greg LeMond.
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In 1988 the sanction for this type of doping was a penalty of 10 minutes, which was applied to Gert-Jan Theunisse during the same 1988 Tour de France; Delgado, having been cleared, received no such penalty.
San Pedro Sula | San Pedro | Pedro Almodóvar | San Pedro de Macorís | Pedro Infante | Pedro II of Brazil | Pedro Martínez | Pedro Vargas | San Pedro, Los Angeles | Pedro Rosselló | San Pedro Town | Roger Delgado | Colégio Pedro II | Pedro Rodríguez | Pedro Fernández de Castro | Pedro Damián | Pedro Álvares Cabral | San Pedro de Atacama | Point Pedro | Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay | Pedro Juan Caballero | Pedro Cieza de León | Pedro Bell | Dom Pedro | Colégio Pedro II (Rio de Janeiro) | São Pedro | Pedro Torres | Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver) | Pedro Rizzo | Pedro Pierluisi |
The Spanish favourites for the general classification of the race were Pedro Delgado, Faustino Rupérez and Pello Ruiz Cabestany and the potential foreign favourites included Robert Millar, Sean Kelly, Eric Caritoux, Peter Winnen and Gianbattista Baronchelli.
Caritoux rode himself into form and won the race's first mountain stage which finished on top of the Rassos de Peguera in the Pyrenees, he then rode admirably on stage 12 which finished at the Lagos de Covadonga summit and took over the leaders yellow jersey from Pedro Delgado.