Spanish cycling marked the 20th anniversary of the untimely death of climbing genius José María Jiménez, who died on December 6, 2003 at the age of 32.
Briefly considered a successor to Miguel Indurain in the late 1990s, Jiménez was a brilliant, compelling racer, though but enormously erratic, whose inconsistency and poor time trialling meant he could never reach the heights of Indurain or Spain’s other Grand Tour winners.
