airstream said:
Sorry but these guys rode in the era of 250 km stages, lesser team tactics building, lesser progressive cycling equipment and with lots of early attacks.
I've heard this excuse before... Oh yeah! When Wonderboy was winning the TdF. Now it's all coming back to me.
Lesser team tactics? Lesser????? Really?
Lesser progressive cycling equipment???? Wonderboy defenders loooooved this one.
Lots of early attacks???? Breaking news, those early attacks are what set up the long breakaways seen then and today. Even if you go back a long while ago to an era when the peloton had a patron that dictated pace until the last 30-50KM, there were still the early attacks and long-shot breakaways. It's unfortunate they don't televise the first hour and then take a break because there's tons of untelevised action before the long-shot breakaway is established.
Finally, another pathetic attempt to combine EPO Grand Tour wins with pre-EPO wins does not pass. See Edwig Van Hooydonck's story. That's what happens when pure talent meets oxygen vector doping.