El Pistolero said:
dastott said:
The Tour is the pinnacle of cycling, by a large margin. So, with a victory and 3rd place Wiggins has the best palmares surely. 3rd place in Vuelta also is worth a lot.
The Tour might be the pinnacle of cycling, but one weak fluke Tour win doesn't equal 7 Monuments (1x Milan-San Remo, 3x Ronde van Vlaanderen and 3x Paris-Roubaix).
Cancellara also has 8 Tour stages versus 2 of Wiggins. He has also worn the yellow jersey a lot more than Wiggins.
Cancellara's Olympic record is also more impressive to me. 2 Gold Medals in the time trial (record) and a Silver Medal in the Olympic Road Race, on a course that didn't suit him. And Cancellara crashed out in the 2012 Road Race when he was one of the big favorites for the Gold Medal.
So Wiggins' tour win was a weak fluke but none of Nibali's have been, right? With that amount of TTing, it's debatable whether Froome would have won, even without his puncture at the start and being allowed to attack
Wearing the yellow jersey is completely irrelevant, because someone who wins stage one can be in yellow for multiple stages while someone who wins six stages wouldn't be in yellow at all if there's been a mountain stage beforehand.
5 Golds, against guys who are specifically training for the Olympics, whereas Canc has 2 golds in a field where only a small percentage peak for the olympics
But don't let objectivity get in the way of your arguments
(But yes, Canc is a lot better than Wiggins)