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This area of the Pyrenees has mixed fortunes for Irish cyclists at the Tour de France. Roche and Martin have won mountain stages whereas Kelly and Healy have bombed in the yellow jersey.

I'd like to buy a Breton viaduct

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All will be revealed during the next three weeks

Based on CN thread post numbers for 2021 and 2022 the top 25 most prestigious men's 1-day races, as voted by you, are: 1 - Paris-Roubaix 2 - World Championships Road Race 3 - Olympics Road Race 4 - Ronde van Vlaanderen 5 - Milano-Sanremo 6 - Liège-Bastogne-Liège 7 - Il Lombardia 8 - Strade...

I don't think anyone has podiumed all monuments in a calendar year but Merckx and Kelly have podiumed all 5 in a 6-month period, starting with Lombardy in October and finishing with Liege in April. Naturally, Merckx has done it twice.

Riders in top-200 PCS all-time rankings who have never won a GT stage. In brackets is GT starts. Frans Verbeeck (4) Andrei Tchmil (11) Richie Porte (17) Claude Criquielion (16) Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (16) Sonny Colbrelli (10) Andrea Tafi (14) Niki Terpstra (15)

9 different riders from Lombardy have had a podium finish at Il Lombardia since the race was last won by a home rider, Gianbattista Baronchelli in 1986. Paris-Tours did not have a French winner for 41 consecutive years from 1957 to 1997. More Flemish riders podiumed Liege-Bastogne-Liege in...

With four podium finishes in the race, Terpstra will also be remembered as the greatest rider never to win Paris-Tours

Double world champions who never won a national championship: Briek Schotte - 2nd x 3 in the Belgian RR Julian Alaphilippe - 3rd x 2, 5th x 2 in the French RR Giorgia Bronzini - 2nd x 2, 3rd x 4, 4th x 2 in the Italian RR

It was Geminiani and Nencini https://forum.cyclingnews.com/threads/one-year-triple-grandtour-best-overall-rider.13994/

Val Martello 2014 and Vittel 2017 threads have about 35 pages of post-race discussion after the point where the winner finishes the race. However, Olympic Road Race 2012 has about 36. I'm not going to count the exact number of posts. Chaingate thread is well behind on about 16 pages.

Rik Van Looy is the only rider to have won GT stages in the capital city of each of the grand tour host nations. Paris (1963), Rome (1959), and Madrid (1958). Sam Bennett is the only active rider to have won stages in 2 of the cities (Paris and Rome). He has twice finished 2nd in Madrid.

Most GT stages without winning any (not including TTTs) is Haimar Zubeldia with 573.

By my calculations, one of the following results is needed in Vuelta 2022, otherwise, we go a full year without any updates to the Podium Slam thread. Landa top 10 Uran top 6 (or top 3 to achieve the podium slam) Pinot top 5 Kelderman top 3 MA Lopez top 2 Carapaz win