The Grand Prix des Nations was the unofficial one. Anquetil started it 9 times and won it 9 times.If the WC time trial existed back then, Eddy probably had around 8 or 9 titles.
Edit: I see that somebody already mentionned it, sorry.
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The Grand Prix des Nations was the unofficial one. Anquetil started it 9 times and won it 9 times.If the WC time trial existed back then, Eddy probably had around 8 or 9 titles.
Ok, but who is the worst. I mean from guys having serious GC interests.
Nowadays, Bardet, Landa...
105 | RODRÍGUEZ Joaquim | Team Katusha | 46.846 | 6:12 |
José Maria Jiménez comes to mind. He was the best climber in the Vuelta several times, but he soon gave up the idea of ever winning a GT, because he always lost many minutes in the time trials.Ok, but who is the worst. I mean from guys having serious GC interests.
Nowadays, Bardet, Landa...
Just checked. He was 3rd in 1998 LV, winnig 4(!) stages and losing 6+ minutes in ITTs. Must have been frustrating for him.José Maria Jiménez comes to mind. He was the best climber in the Vuelta several times, but he soon gave up the idea of ever winning a GT, because he always lost many minutes in the time trials.
People referring to the time gaps, don't forget Indurain era and before had much bigger time trials.
Nowadays UCI, ASO, RCS etc ruined TT's by only putting max 40km TT's in, most of the time not even 30km
Don’t forget though, that was the only ITT of the race that year. There was more kms of ITT in 2016 and 2017, and just about equal this year, except spread over 2 or 3 stages each time.when RCS included a proper length TT in 2015, we had time gaps approaching those of the past. Contador won the race that day, and we havn't seen any TTs since then even approaching that length