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Just deserts: racing in the Middle East Edward Pickering © Provided by Cycling News UAE Tour stage 4 The Middle East races have been a part of cycling’s landscape for 19 years. Procycling looks back at their history and place in the sport. This article was taken from . Only die-hard cycling nerds will remember Ivan Quaranta. A larger-than-life Italian sprinter at a time when shares in larger-than-life Italian sprinters were soaring in value, he made headlines when he outsprinted Mario Cipollini, then at his peak, in stage 1 of the 1999 Giro d’Italia. Quaranta picked up two stages a year at his national tour between 1999 and 2001, but the rest of his career was a steady diminuendo of results and status through second division Italian teams, and his last recorded finish was second in stage 6b of the 2008 Tour of Morocco, riding for Amore e Vita.

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