Guess Who - Game

[sir fly]

Raúl González?

 

[RedheadDane]

Rode after 1/1 2015?

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Female? No
Inactive? Yes
Rode competitively after 1/1 2000? Yes
European? Yes
Rode competitively after 1/1 2010? Yes
Born in country with shoreline? Yes
Represented country he was born in? Yes
From country with Monument? No
From country with GT? Yes
Was his last team a WT team? Yes
Normal retirement? Yes
Top tenned in a GT? No
Does he have hair? Yes
Basque? No
Did he enter a World Championships Road Race? No
Ever won a WT stage/race (or an equivalent at the time)? No
Ever finished top 10 in the Volta a Portugal? No
Ever finished in the top-10 of any (cat. 1 or above) race? Yes
Did he ever ride on the team currently known as Movistar? Yes
Was the team currently known as Movistar his last team? No
Xabier Zandio? No

Raúl González? No (who?)
Rode after 1/1 2015? Yes

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Alberto Losada?

A lot of the people I'm thinking fit fail one of the criteria. David López is Basque, Luís Pasamontes spent a year with the Movistar Continental team after retiring, Joan Horrach finished top 10 of the Volta, Guti, Lastras and Fran Pérez retired from Abarcá.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

It is Losada. I was worried that I had got an answer wrong when there was so much difficulty in getting him: I was wondering whether I should draw attention to ongoing involvement in mountain biking in mitigation, or admit that I didn't know his hair status any more recently than the 2017 Katusha mug-shot.

I didn't have any rider I was particularly keen to put up this time, so I applied a random number generator to the CQ database, but the the first name that threw up was a 45 year old Swiss guy whose only result was 4th place in the Indonesian national championships two years ago, followed by a few others so obscure that even LS would have been embarrassed to introduce them to the game. But I persevered, and eventually the randon number generator lead me to Alberto Losada.

And who is Raúl González?

 

[sir fly]

It is Losada. I was worried that I had got an answer wrong when there was so much difficulty in getting him: I was wondering whether I should draw attention to ongoing involvement in mountain biking in mitigation, or admit that I didn't know his hair status any more recently than the 2017 Katusha mug-shot.

I didn't have any rider I was particularly keen to put up this time, so I applied a random number generator to the CQ database, but the the first name that threw up was a 45 year old Swiss guy whose only result was 4th place in the Indonesian national championships two years ago, followed by a few others so obscure that even LS would have been embarrassed to introduce them to the game. But I persevered, and eventually the randon number generator lead me to Alberto Losada.

And who is Raúl González?

Some bloke northwards from Contador.


Libertine,

Female?
Single?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

No
No

 

[sir fly]

Retired?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yes

 

[Armchair cyclist]

European?
Born before 1960?
Top ten in a GT or monument?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

No (but sort of yes)
No
No

 

[Armchair cyclist]

From the non-European territory of a European nation? (if so, Marc De Maar?)
Raced (on the road) since 1/1/2000?
Started a GT or monument?

 

[King Boonen]

Alberto Losada?

 

[King Boonen]

Alberto Losada?

I have no idea why the latest posts didn't show up in my browser...

 

[Libertine Seguros]

He is from a non-European territory of a European nation, but he is not Marc de Maar (de Maar was actually born in the European Netherlands but grew up in Curaçao, I did nearly go for him a while back because of the Curaçao link).
He has raced road since 1/1/2000
And he has started a GT or Monument.

 

[RedheadDane]

Is his nationality that of a country with a GT?
-------------------------------------------------- Monument?

 

[King Boonen]

Robert Sassone.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Did he ride under the flag of the colonial power?
Started Paris-Roubaix?
Competed after 1/1/2010?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

His nationality is a country with a GT.
His nationality is a country with a monument.
He is not Robert Sassone.
He rode under the flag of the colonial power although technically speaking he isn't a colonial at all
He has started Paris-Roubaix
He has raced since 1/1/2010

 

[RedheadDane]

French?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yes

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Yoanne Géne

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Indeed. He's not really a colonial because Guadeloupe is strictly speaking not an overseas territory but an integral constituent part of the French Republic.

 

[RedheadDane]

Male?
Active?

 

[Armchair cyclist]

I had also considered putting Marc De Maar, but decided there would be too many answers with an asterisk.

Male? Yes
Active? No