Carlos Sastre

Carlos Sastre Candil, born on 22 April 1975, is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer and the winner of the 2008 Tour de France. A climbing specialist who later improved his time trialling, he finished in the top ten of fifteen Grand Tours during his career and on the podium of each of them. He signed his first professional contract with ONCE in 1997, won the mountain competition at the 2000 Vuelta a España, moved to Team CSC in 2002 and won the 13th stage of the 2003 Tour de France with a pacifier in his mouth as a greeting to his infant daughter. In 2005 he reached his first Grand Tour podium with third place at the Vuelta, and in 2006 he rode the Giro d'Italia to help his teammate Ivan Basso. He never tested positive and was not implicated in any doping investigation, and the press called him Don Limpio, Mr. Clean in Spanish.