The man that got me into cycling. I remember watching him in the 91 Tour on channel 4 and I was hooked. A great rider to watch.

I got into cycling thanks to Miguel. Not only is he the greatest, but also humble in his success, showing respect to his fellow professionals and an idol for us who were younger back then. The perfect champion. I will never forget the Luxembourg Time Trial where he utterly demolished everybody in the field over 40+ miles. Does anyone know what happened to his son? did he quit cycling? I was really hoping we would see him follow in his fathers footsteps.

Quel magnifique athlete . Jamais vu un aussi beau coureur , si bien posé sur sa machine

This guy climbing like that is still one of the biggest outliers in all of sport a truly phenomenal rider

Really nice and humble man even after his five wins. You didn't even know he was in the room.

Great video 👍👍

Got me in cycling, he was such a humble and brilliant champion

Big Mig was so smooth on the bike his long arms pulling on the bars helping his legs he could stay on top of his chosen gear at any speed time trial or mountain road... smooth awesome power

Un verdadero campeón!

My hermatacric levels have gone to almost 60 watching this

best ever

The greatest of all time by quite a distance

I remember watching the Spanish TV documentary where a spanish university attempted to measure his wattage output . Miguel Indurain measured above the capacity of the instrument and rendered it obsolete. The university and a lab had to build another machine just to measure his capacity because they never thought that it was humanly possible to reach the measured units. This guy is just ridiculously overbuilt for cardio. He trained on Northern Spain where there are lots of mountains.

He also had a magnificent uni! This guy was a legend!

A great champion and an unbelievable engine.

The G.O.A.T

No offence, but Ugromov looks like he was just released form the Gulag

Legend.

Here in Germany we call him "Don Miguel". The first time a watched cycling, when he won 4 TDF, he was called that. And I still keep it that way.

if only someone like Landa or Quintana could have been on such a seasoned well conditioned team like the Banesto team, shame they aren't around anymore *cough* sarcasm *cough*

El mejor de la historia. The best ever before. With a lot of diference. Gracias por todo Miguelòn

I still believe he is the GOAT

Great Rider, i still think he had the ability to win another 1 or 2 tours, though he retired young he obviously had his reasons.

His speed on the flats was ungodly

The reason Luis Herrera quit cycling was because guys like indurain were breezing past him on the climbs...

Wonder in would Shake Rattle and Roll in the Time Trial?

I remember when he escaped from the peloton with some random guy just trying to win the stage they would get to the end and he would be able to easily win the stage but he always let the other person win

The man could average 500 watts of power, the average bicycle racer is lucky to maintain 200. Whether or not he used ill gotten means to attain this it's still quite impressive for a human being.

He was dopet just like the others in that periode. He says in the interview: "there is a lot of small details who helps you" ... Indirectly there it is😉

Trajan, Hadrian, Theodosius, Indurain

No doubt, Big Mig is still the greatest chapmion and cyclist. He was amazing and absolutely strogest rider all times. I admire him.

Excellent. That was a blast from the past! Look at the size of him, no way on earth would he win a GT with that bulk these days. Sherwin sounds really naive in retrospect rationalising how Mig wins, even tho he took more EPO than everyone else combined lol. Level playing field however.

Was he really clean ??? Never pursued liked Armstrong???

Juiced to the eyeballs, but still one of my favourite riders

SOIDS! "THE! TOUR! DE! FRANCE! LEGEND" MICHAEL!!! INDURAIN! THE! SPANIARD! THE! TOUR! DE! FRANCE! (G,O,A,T)!!! SOIDS! NOW! YOU! KNOW!

He had a resting heart rate of 28.

Nice guy but doped through his gills

Has he ever admitted doping?

Spain 🇪🇸 is #1

He always clean...not like his rivals..most of them already dead

😂 The best equipment ( some of those bikes are now banned) and the best doctors that is really what it comes down to. We are not naive he was a phenomenal cyclist but his size on climbing go sell me some moon property if you believe that he was clean. Either way the new pro cycling has lost this nostalgia. He quit at the right time and thus did not get the doping spotlight on him.

After the exciting Tours of the 80s, there was Miguel-the-extraterrestrial-Indurain, EPO responder of the first hour. His TDF win marks the moment when cycling lost its legendary status. Imagine how that must feel. All that training, all that suffering, only to ruin the thing you love most.