Guess Who - Game

[Libertine Seguros]

Most of Finland is east of Riga, though, I'm pretty sure he's not from there.

Alex Dowsett maybe? I think he's from the east of England. He's the only Briton on his team and he rode the UAE Tour.

 

[RedheadDane]

Dowsett is not the only Briton on the WT.

 

[sir fly]

On the Italian team?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Male? Yes
Active? Yes
Born west of London? No
Ridden this year? Yes
On WorldTeam? Yes
Born north of Rabat? Yes
Born west of Riga? Yes
Name contains the letter 'z'? No
Last race a WT race? Yes
Last race in Australia? No
Last race UAE Tour? Yes
Last race Omloop? No
Last race Paris-Nice? No
Did he face certain difficulties… leaving? Delayed a bit, not as much as some
On team of own nationality? No
Did he finish in top-20? No
Is he the only one of his nationality on his team? Yes
So, not on Cofidis, FDJ, or UAE Team? No
Guarnieri? No
From country with blue in its flag? Yes
Norwegian? No
Hanninen? No (born east of Riga)

Alex Dowsett maybe? Yes: from my adopted county of Essex.
I reckon Luka Mezgec was still in the running: I was surprised noone tried him before checking out the Little Bleeder's birthplace. (and Dani Navarro in as well, if one accounts for the bit of blue in the coat of arms on the Spanish flag, which I would have)

Dowsett is not the only Briton on the WT. I took WT to refer to World Team, not World Tour, sorry if I mislead you.

 

[RedheadDane]

(Dowsett is still technically not the only Briton on (a) WorldTeam.)

So... LS... are you going to be as evil as last time?
Male?
Active?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

We seem to have adopted an informal rule of no more than three questions as a time (there are sometimes 4) which seems sensible. Can I suggest a rule that questions should be independent of each other: Asking in one post, "Was his last race in Europe, Was his last race in Oceania, Was his last race in Asia, Was his last race in Antactica, Was his last race in along the watershed of the Urals?" is tantamount to asking the non-Yes or No question "What continent was his last race on?"

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I don't think I was especially evil last time, but the line of questions allowed for sleight of hand. Kononenko has been around at a decent level for a few years. Anyway...

No
No

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Northern Hemisphere?
Western Hemisphere?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yes
Yes

 

[RedheadDane]

Retired before 2000?
Is she permanently inactive?

 

[tobydawq]

What do you mean by "sleight of hand"?

I have never heard the term used before and my Google search explains to me that it is something a magician does with card tricks (something to do with fine motor skills), which I really can't apply to this situation...

 

[Libertine Seguros]

She did not retire before 2000
She is not permanently inactive

By sleight of hand I mean something which is truthful but with intent that it can deceive. Such as we've had before with, say, Lauri Aus, where after establishing the rider was inactive, all the questions were about when he retired, but Aus never retired because he was killed, so I truthfully answered all of those questions with "no", without drawing attention to the ambiguity of the line of questioning. Similarly somebody else had Serge Baguet, and truthfully answered that he'd retired before 2000, but he of course returned to the sport after then - so this misdirected the line of questioning away from him. With Kononenko you had the fact that his last race was in Turkey, so had the Europe/Asia trick, plus he entered the race for a team from his country (a national team) rather than his trade team.

 

[RedheadDane]

Is she pregnant?
Or is she just inactive because everyone is inactive these days?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

She's not pregnant, at least to my knowledge. If she is, then congratulations.
She's more inactive than, say, van Vleuten or Longo Borghini (she isn't Annemiek van Vleuten or Elisa Longo Borghini), but she isn't retired.

 

[RedheadDane]

Injured?
Currently on a UCI team?
From Europe?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Not presently injured to my knowledge
Not presently on a UCI team
From Europe

 

[RedheadDane]

Has she been on a UCI team within the last five years?
Born before 1/1 1995?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

She has been on a UCI Team within the last 5 years.
She was born before 1/1/95.

 

[RedheadDane]

Was she on a UCI team last year?
Did the UCI team she was last on - whenever that was - fold?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

She had a UCI team in 2019. It has not folded.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Suspended?

Specialising on track pre-Olympics?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

She is not suspended, and she's most definitely not focusing on track racing at the Olympics.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Under 30?
Spanish?
Has completed the Giro Rosa?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

She's under 30, and she's completed the Giro Rosa, but she isn't Spanish.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Hannah Payton?