Rolf Sørensen

Rolf Sørensen, born 20 April 1965 in Helsinge, Denmark, is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer known in Italy as Il Biondo because of his blonde hair. He moved to Italy at seventeen and has lived there since. A classics specialist, he won the Tour of Flanders, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Paris-Brussels, Paris-Tours and Milano-Torino, and finished third in the UCI Road World Cup in 1989 and 1991 and second in 1997. He won stages of the Tour de France in 1994 and 1996, wore the yellow jersey in 1991 after the team time trial and rode the race seven times, the last in 2001. He also won stage 9 of the 1995 Giro d'Italia and stages in the Tour of the Basque Country, Tirreno-Adriatico, the Tour de Suisse and the Tour de Romandie. He took the silver medal in the road race at the 1996 Olympics. He is the son of Jens Sørensen, who rode the team pursuit for Denmark at the 1960 Olympics. After retiring he worked as a commentator and agent, and in 2013 he admitted using EPO.