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Worst: Roger Walkowiak Tour (6 starts, 1 win, 2 DNF) Vuelta (2 starts, highest placing: 15, 1 DNF) Best: Felice Gimondi Tour (5 starts, 1 win, 1 other podium, 3 other top tens) Giro (14 starts, 3 wins, 6 other podiums, 3 other top tens, 2 other top 20s) Vuelta (1 start, 1 win) 18 GT...

Regarding the stage 9 report by Barry Ryan: "Froome himself tracked a cheeky attack from Alejandro Valverde on the way down the Menté, showing none of the jitters that did for Luis Ocaña in 1973, ..." Perhaps he means 1971, as Ocana won the race in 1973 (not sure if the Mente was even on...

Bettini 10 Chars

Think stages that finished at Aix-les-Bains.

Okay - do you mean Pornic - Nantes 49km TT in 2003 when Ullrich started just over a minute down on Armstrong on GC and was gaining a little bit of time on Armstrong until he crashed at a roundabout, thus losing his final chance to win the Tour?

Really? After I posted the reply I had to google Pornic to see if it actually existed? What was significant about Sergei Ivanov's stage win at Aix-les-Bains in 2001?

I don't know - a stage that finished in Pornic?

Well done!

More along the lines of what happened on the final day.

:D Well, you are correct, although that wasn't the answer I was looking for.

Woohoo! I don't know how I remembered that. My question: What was the common factor in the Tours of 1947, 1968, 1989 and 2010? (Other than the 21 year spacing between each Tour?)

Frederic Moncassin?

New Zealand: 1. Rugby Union 2. Binge drinking 3. Rugby League, Cricket, motor racing 4. Racing 5. Other sports (except for two weeks in Olympic years, when Olympic sports that NZers are competitive at rate at #2 - in 2016 rugby sevens will be in the Olympics)

Too right! Verbruggen as president must have known about the suspicious results, yet IIRC he and Armstrong were business partners in a small hotel. Has any journalist asked questions about this relationship yet?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mcquaid-armstrong-affair-wil-not-effect-cycling The difference between effect and affect confuses a lot of people, and maybe it was a verbatim quote from Pat, but "wil"? Amazed that the spell checker didn't pick that one up. On the plus side, well done for...