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Riders with pursuit experience that have top 10'd a GT prologue in the last 10 years:
Tour: (2 prologues total, 2010 and 2012)
Bradley Wiggins - 2nd, 2012
Sylvain Chavanel - 3rd 2012
Brett Lancaster - 6th 2012
Patrick Gretsch - 7th 2012
Tony Martin - 2nd 2010
David Millar - 3rd 2010
Geraint Thomas - 5th 2010
Tyler Farrar - 6th 2010
Giro: (1 prologue total, 2012)
Taylor Phinney - 1st
Geraint Thomas - 2nd
Alex Rasmussen - 3rd
Brett Lancaster - 7th
Jesse Sergent - 9th
Vuelta: (1 prologue total, 2009)
Tyler Farrar - 3rd
Jens Mouris - 4th
Then there's guys like Patrick Bevin, Victor Campenaerts, Luke Durbridge, Manuel Quinziato, Rohan Dennis, Alex Dowsett, Alex Edmondson, Vasil Kiryienka, Tom Bohli, Mark Cavendish, Leigh Howard, Mark Renshaw, Greg Henderson and Michael Rogers who have top 10 results in prologues from other World Tour stage races.
I don't know... it's almost as if being the among the fastest in the world in a 4km TT on a flat track makes riders extremely well suited for the shortest TTs found in road cycling. Who knew?
Oh, and would you look at that... Out of that entire list, only three have been top 10 in a GT. One is Mick Rogers the doper. The others are our favourite British boys. I bet there's less than a handful of even top 25s between the rest of them. Because the pursuit is such a great indicator of GT talent.
rick james said:Says who?? any proof of that?
Riders with pursuit experience that have top 10'd a GT prologue in the last 10 years:
Tour: (2 prologues total, 2010 and 2012)
Bradley Wiggins - 2nd, 2012
Sylvain Chavanel - 3rd 2012
Brett Lancaster - 6th 2012
Patrick Gretsch - 7th 2012
Tony Martin - 2nd 2010
David Millar - 3rd 2010
Geraint Thomas - 5th 2010
Tyler Farrar - 6th 2010
Giro: (1 prologue total, 2012)
Taylor Phinney - 1st
Geraint Thomas - 2nd
Alex Rasmussen - 3rd
Brett Lancaster - 7th
Jesse Sergent - 9th
Vuelta: (1 prologue total, 2009)
Tyler Farrar - 3rd
Jens Mouris - 4th
Then there's guys like Patrick Bevin, Victor Campenaerts, Luke Durbridge, Manuel Quinziato, Rohan Dennis, Alex Dowsett, Alex Edmondson, Vasil Kiryienka, Tom Bohli, Mark Cavendish, Leigh Howard, Mark Renshaw, Greg Henderson and Michael Rogers who have top 10 results in prologues from other World Tour stage races.
I don't know... it's almost as if being the among the fastest in the world in a 4km TT on a flat track makes riders extremely well suited for the shortest TTs found in road cycling. Who knew?
Oh, and would you look at that... Out of that entire list, only three have been top 10 in a GT. One is Mick Rogers the doper. The others are our favourite British boys. I bet there's less than a handful of even top 25s between the rest of them. Because the pursuit is such a great indicator of GT talent.