Grand Tours in a row with at least one stage win:
14 Merckx
13 Hinault
12 Greipel
10 Leoni, Hushovd, Bitossi
9 Leducq, Van Steenbergen
14 Merckx
13 Hinault
12 Greipel
10 Leoni, Hushovd, Bitossi
9 Leducq, Van Steenbergen
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silvergrenade said:Why does he have just 2 pages for a sprinter of his stature?
I expected a lot more
GenericBoonenFan said:silvergrenade said:Why does he have just 2 pages for a sprinter of his stature?
I expected a lot more
People on this forum only seem to care about Climbers, I believe the Boonen thread has around 9 pages? Cance has 18, Which is abysmal! And then Robert ****** Gesink who (with all due respect) isn't anywhere near those guys has 45 pages. This is one of the reasons that I also frequently visit other forums. Because tell me why do those guys have all those pages and classics riders bearely none? It's not like they're more entertaining to watch...
Edit: Go André, ain't nothing more beautiful than seeing a Gorilla smile!
BullsFan22 said:Carlos Betancur has 2000+ posts, while Andre Greipel has 57 (soon to be 58). I suppose if Greipel was greasing on donuts every day and showed up to race once every 18 months or so, then maybe he'd have 2000+ posts himself. Silly Gorilla!
Valv.Piti said:Gesink was the shite tho in his younger years, he was super hyped and rightfully so (to some extent).
carolina said:Is he going to finish the Giro?
This makes a lot of sense.Libertine Seguros said:Gesink: We had a lot of Dutch posters, plus a lot of posters who liked to wind up said Dutch posters, at the time where he was legit a top prospect.
Betancur: First the usual hype of a new great climbing talent, then the discussion and debate of what was happening to him, then the conversion of him into some kind of forum mascot, with dedicated following to his every performance, underperformance and photo of him not looking in peak shape.
Greipel: I like André Greipel, but the thing with him is that there's a lot of talk of him in other peoples' threads, most notably Cav's, and other threads about his rivalry with Cav. The guy is seldom anything but class - despite the effective PR campaign Cavendish was able to run back in his days of petulance leading to a lot of people criticising Greipel or deriding his insistence that he had what it takes to ride the bigger races, he mostly kept what he had to say pretty dignified, so hasn't often given us juicy controversial statements; he's not lazy and is a willing workhorse for the team in situations that don't suit him, and even some that do (working for Gilbert in Milan-San Remo for example), he's not laughably bad at anything - sure his climbing is autobus level, but he's perfectly reasonable and hasn't had to be saved from the dreaded hors delais often or been exposed uphill the way the likes of Guardini, van Hummel or Quaranta were. There was little reason to set up an early career thread which leads to massive debate over his potential, because he was already pretty established by the time he attracted his own thread.
RedheadDane said:carolina said:Is he going to finish the Giro?
Probably not, but he isn't gonna come out of the Giro without a stage win.
carolina said:RedheadDane said:carolina said:Is he going to finish the Giro?
Probably not, but he isn't gonna come out of the Giro without a stage win.
I'm really hopping he doesn't. It's such a lack of respect for the race. This is the only thing I don't like about him.
RedheadDane said:carolina said:RedheadDane said:carolina said:Is he going to finish the Giro?
Probably not, but he isn't gonna come out of the Giro without a stage win.
I'm really hopping he doesn't. It's such a lack of respect for the race. This is the only thing I don't like about him.
Huh? You're hoping he doesn't finish, but at the same time you think it's disrespectful to do so?
spiritualride said:I'm okay with sprinters leaving the Giro early. Top sprinters have infamously done this many times in the past, so the organizers are well informed about it, yet they still made a route that leaves no sprint stages in the last week. If they want to avoid a points leader abandoning then they should have at least a sprint in Milan. Riders have tough decisions to make for themselves, their teams, and their families.