Marco Paella rounded the corner of one of the mountain roads on Mont Aix-En during stage 15 of the Tour de France thinking: "I need to win this stage, my chances for winning the tour rest on this stage." "I need to hold off Von Meyer." Paella had entered the Tour as a underdog behind the 2-time champion Eddy Von Meyer. If it hadn't been for the mass doping suspensions the announcers joked that Paella wouldn't have been considered to finish in the top ten.
