Guess Who - Game

[Armchair cyclist]

Male? Yes
Active? No
Active after 1/1 2000? Yes
European? Yes
From country with GT? Yes
----------------------- Monument? Yes
Ever won a .1 race (including elite NC) or above on road? No
So... does he have a given name? Yes
Country with multiple Monuments? No
Ever finished a GT? Yes
Active after 1/1 2010? Yes
Normal retirement? Yes
Last team a WT team? Yes
Last team a French WT team? No
Ever top-10ed in a race (including elite NC) or above on road? Yes
Pierre Cazaux? No
Does the winning a .1 race or above include stages? No (but it was a not winning, rather than a winning)
Is he not an individual but in fact a team? No

Has he won stages? Strictly speaking, no, but that would be very pedantic. He has won a stage.

 

[RedheadDane]

Was he part of the winning squad in a TTT?

 

[Finn84]

Won only after rider finishing first on the road was disqualified?

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Male? Yes
Active? No
Active after 1/1 2000? Yes
European? Yes
From country with GT? Yes
----------------------- Monument? Yes
Ever won a .1 race (including elite NC) or above on road? No
So... does he have a given name? Yes
Country with multiple Monuments? No
Ever finished a GT? Yes
Active after 1/1 2010? Yes
Normal retirement? Yes
Last team a WT team? Yes
Last team a French WT team? No
Ever top-10ed in a race (including elite NC) or above on road? Yes
Pierre Cazaux? No
Does the winning a .1 race or above include stages? No
Is he not an individual but in fact a team? No

Has he won stages a stage? Yes

Was he part of the winning squad in a TTT? No
Won only after rider finishing first on the road was disqualified? No

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Mathieu Sprick?

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Male? Yes
Active? No
Active after 1/1 2000? Yes
European? Yes
From country with GT? Yes
----------------------- Monument? Yes
Ever won a .1 race (including elite NC) or above on road? No
So... does he have a given name? Yes
Country with multiple Monuments? No
Ever finished a GT? Yes
Active after 1/1 2010? Yes
Normal retirement? Yes
Last team a WT team? Yes
Last team a French WT team? No
Ever top-10ed in a race (including elite NC) or above on road? Yes
Pierre Cazaux? No
Does the winning a .1 race or above include stages? No
Is he not an individual but in fact a team? No
Has he won stages a stage? Yes
Was he part of the winning squad in a TTT? No
Won only after rider finishing first on the road was disqualified? No

Mathieu Sprick? No


I've double checked my answers, because there seems to be a touch of desperation in the questioning, and I would have thought this guy would come to mind more readily than Sprick or Cazaux.
To clarify: his .1 or higher win tally is one stage. He hasn't won a race, as I thought we had a convention that 'wins' means any win including a stage, but 'race win' excludes stages; he has one stage win, so when asked whether he had won stages (plural), I acknowledged that the correct answer would be rather pedantic.

 

[RedheadDane]

Was his one stage win in a race below HC level?

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Male? Yes
Active? No
Active after 1/1 2000? Yes
European? Yes
From country with GT? Yes
----------------------- Monument? Yes
Ever won a .1 race (including elite NC) or above on road? No
So... does he have a given name? Yes
Country with multiple Monuments? No
Ever finished a GT? Yes
Active after 1/1 2010? Yes
Normal retirement? Yes
Last team a WT team? Yes
Last team a French WT team? No
Ever top-10ed in a race (including elite NC) or above on road? Yes
Pierre Cazaux? No
Does the winning a .1 race or above include stages? No
Is he not an individual but in fact a team? No
Has he won stages a stage? Yes
Was he part of the winning squad in a TTT? No
Won only after rider finishing first on the road was disqualified? No
Mathieu Sprick? No


Was his one stage win in a race below HC level? No

 

[RedheadDane]

Stage win on WT level?
Stage win in France?
Did he ever ride on a French WT team?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The problem was the guy I've been trying to fit into it throughout has been Jérôme Pineau, except that he won the Tour de l'Ain all the way back in 2004. Nicolas Portal was the other name I thought of but I couldn't justify his retirement as being "normal" as it was due to health issues which seemingly ultimately led to his premature death.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Male? Yes
Active? No
Active after 1/1 2000? Yes
European? Yes
From country with GT? Yes
----------------------- Monument? Yes
Ever won a .1 race (including elite NC) or above on road? No
So... does he have a given name? Yes
Country with multiple Monuments? No
Ever finished a GT? Yes
Active after 1/1 2010? Yes
Normal retirement? Yes
Last team a WT team? Yes
Last team a French WT team? No
Ever top-10ed in a race (including elite NC) or above on road? Yes
Pierre Cazaux? No
Does the winning a .1 race or above include stages? No
Is he not an individual but in fact a team? No
Has he won stages a stage? Yes
Was he part of the winning squad in a TTT? No
Won only after rider finishing first on the road was disqualified? No
Mathieu Sprick? No
Was his one stage win in a race below HC level? No

Stage win on WT level? Yes
Stage win in France? Yes
Did he ever ride on a French WT team? Yes

It is Nicolas Portal. Sorry if my answer about retirement was misleading: I tend to think of not-normal retirement as severe injury or a ban, rather than end of season conceding to lessening performances, but I can see why you would have expected a no on that: I'll look it up more precisely and consider an asterisk on that one in future.

And the comments at the time look tragic now that I look it up knowing what we do now: "Having to call time on my racing career was obviously a difficult one, but the birth of my first child last year changed my outlook a lot and taking this decision now means my heart condition is never going to worsen and I'll always be able to lead a normal life."

Male?
Active?
European?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yes
Yes
No

 

[del1962]

Raced a UCI Road race this year?
On a UCI Continental Team?
Born before 1/1/1990?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

No
Yes
No

 

[Finn84]

In team of his own country?

 

[RedheadDane]

Raced this year?
Asian?
Born before 1/1 1980?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

In a team of his own country
I cannot trace that he has raced this year
Asian
Not born before 1/1/1980 (I already confirmed he was not born before 1/1/1990!)

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Under 25?
Same team as last year?
Japanese?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Under 25
Same team as last year
Not Japanese

 

[Finn84]

Chinese?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yes

 

[Finn84]

Participated in 2019 Tour of Qinghai Lake?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

No

 

[Armchair cyclist]

in any .1 or higher race last year?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yes