Guess Who - Game

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Feb 20, 2010
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She has retired.
She has represented Italy in an elite RR at the World Championships.
She was born before 1/1/90.
She has a pro win.
No relatives in either péloton to the best of my knowledge.
 
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Libertine Seguros said:
She has retired.
She has represented Italy in an elite RR at the World Championships.
She was born before 1/1/90.
She has a pro win.
No relatives in either péloton to the best of my knowledge.

How in the name of God you managed to (successfully!) decipher 'any pro wins?' from 'ny oro wims?' is beyond me. Sorry about that.
 
Feb 20, 2010
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Is that an instruction or a hint given the relative obscurity?

It is Patuzzo, I picked her cos a few years ago I had some real high hopes for her, she was a great climbing talent who showed well in the Italian domestic races and was part of my favourite era of Safi, alongside Andruk, Bronzini, Kapusta and Eneritz Iturriagaetxebarria, who she signed for following some good junior performances, including finishing just outside the top 20 of the Emakumeen Bira at the age of just 17, and winning the Junior World Championships RR in a tricky course in Aguascalientes ahead of a number of riders who've gone on to become big names - van der Breggen, Kitchen, Blaak, Scandolara, d'Hoore. She broke out as a pro in spring 2010 at the age of 20, hitting the top 10 in FW and having very strong showings in the Emakumeen Bira and the Giro del Trentino, two of the most mountainous races on the calendar, but she had a disappointing illness-riddled Giro before rebounding at the Trophée d'Or where she podiumed. She got bumped down the priorities list when Safi became the foundation of the Diadora-Pasta Zara team (linked to the men's Geox-TMC squad) and they signed 2009 Giro winner Claudia Häusler and 2010 Giro winner Mara Abbott. However, things didn't go right for the team as a whole, and Eleonora's season was blighted by illness and injury, and the team folded at the end of the year alongside its men's equivalent anyway. She joined BePink alongside Amialiusik and Cantele, but stuck to fairly minor races to focus on studies; halfway through the season she decided it wasn't worth it anymore and retired at 22. When I look at where people like Anna VDB are now and how Patuzzo was as a junior and as a climber, I always wonder what she could have been (even if it's certainly true there are better development opportunities at a team like Rabo).
 
Oct 16, 2012
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Libertine Seguros said:
Is that an instruction or a hint given the relative obscurity?

More request than instruction and thanks for the backstory, I think you enjoy doing them anyway or would not have asked :)
 
May 5, 2010
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European?
Does he ride for a team that's registered in the country he's from?
Has his team participated in any WT events this year?