Eros Poli
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Eros Poli (born August 6, 1963 in Isola della Scala, Veneto) is an Italian former professional racing cyclist of the 1990s, notably employed as Mario Cipollini's lead-out man in bunch sprints.
Poli won the golden medal in the Team Time Trial at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, together with Claudio Vandelli, Marcello Bartalini and Marco Giovannetti.
Following Cipollini's retirement in the 1994 Tour de France, Poli won Montpellier to Carpentras stage which featured an ascent of Mont Ventoux. With a lone break he lost nearly 20 minutes on the climb, due to his heavy 193 cm frame, but he was so far ahead that he won anyway. In that Tour, Poli won the Combativity award.
When asked by Cycle Sport magazine what he would like his epitaph to be, he said "Here lies Eros Poli, famous for being tall and coming last in the Giro [d'Italia]".
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