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Your first question is answered on their wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L39ION_of_Los_Angeles2 questions I cant find an answer to.
Why do the Legion team spell it L39ion. Is there a significance to the numbers?
Also one of them wears a California jersey. Is this a regional champs kit and do other places do that ?
Then again the Epernay stage the year after was pretty good and that was a better design than either of those in 2018.If it's 200+ kms of flat and an uphill sprint really bad, but this type of stages in general doesn't deliver at the beginning of the Tour, in 2018 they even tried their best with Quimper very hilly and the Mur two times but still nothing happened.
If it's 200+ kms of flat and an uphill sprint really bad, but this type of stages in general doesn't deliver at the beginning of the Tour, in 2018 they even tried their best with Quimper very hilly and the Mur two times but still nothing happened.
Don't know how I missed that they had a wiki page. I was rooting around interviews and stuff trying to find the answerYour first question is answered on their wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L39ION_of_Los_Angeles
Merckx competed in an era when cycling was not nearly as globalised as it is now and as a result far less competitive, not really sure how you can compare riders from such different eras.
Agreed, nobody will ever beat Merckx' record and therefore, he is by default the best there ever was and the standard for everyone to be measured against. But try plopping Pogacar into a race against Merckx, and you'll see who'd win.
He would still get his ass handed to him by Indurain, Pantani and the likes.
Some sports do take nosedives, it's not always forward, but every sport has come along way since the 70s.Pretty much every sport is far more competitive than is was 30+ years ago so I consider the GOATs to be the sportsmen who are the best of recent times and I will likely say the same thing in 30 more years time.
Well, except for Marita Koch and her cohort . . .Pretty much every sport is far more competitive than is was 30+ years ago so I consider the GOATs to be the sportsmen who are the best of recent times and I will likely say the same thing in 30 more years time.
It's just not possible to compare athletes of different eras, that's like comparing different sports, it doesn't make sense, in neither direction, in my opinion.
The same when people make lists of current best athletes and it's a mix of men and women, that is also a bit nonsenical.
By that measure, Indurain is the GOAT of cycling and likely won't be surpassed in a really long time.They often put Serena Williams near the top but there are hundreds of active male tennis players who would beat her so it does not really make sense. In Great Britain they always combine the sportsperson of the year award which I always thought is silly.
I'd also say that in sports like XC skiing the sport has become less competitive, you only have very few nations at the top nowadays.Well, except for Marita Koch and her cohort . . .
Well, except for Marita Koch and her cohort . . .
I think actually cycling is less international than ten-fifteen years ago with basically no one around today in the wt from Eastern Europe except some super talented individuals. Most development teams also seem to pick from the same countries.With cycling it's more about specialization of riders and the field becoming even more international, but on the other hand you have the shirking talent pool in countries like Italy, France and Spain, that evens things out a bit.
international, but on the other hand you have the shirking talent pool in countries like Italy, France and Spain, that evens things out a bit.
That's probably true when it comes to the pro ranks, but the number of kids riding in the junior ranks and at an even younger age is getting smaller and smaller in those countries, the talent pool is shrinking.I don't think the talent pool is shrinking in those countries, the level of riders in other countries has risen so much it means a lot of the riders from countries like Italy, France and Spain that used to make up a lot of the peloton and would have been pro decades ago are not good enough now.