Quite often I realize something completely random about cycling which doesn't really fit to a topic but I still feel the need to post about it. This is a place for stuff like that. Don't know if anyone else needs this thread, but I do 
For example today, I was thinking about about the fact that although right now a lot of young gc riders are getting hyped, only a few really end up winning grand tours, or even getting podiums. For example right now there are only 7 active grand tour winners and two of them, Valverde and Cunego, are already so old that they could be the fathers of some young pros. Moreover, if I didn't forget someone there are also only 16 active riders who have been on a GT podium, so those guys are really pretty rare. So I thought, it's statistically probably rather unlikely that Bernal and Gaudu who were born with just a few months between each other would both become serious gt contenders. Then I was thinking again and realized, Froome and Nibali, the most successful active gt riders were also born with only a few months between, and then I realized the other three active gt winners who aren't in their late thirties were actually all three born in 1990 (Dumoulin, Quintana, Aru). So at that point I was starting to look at the podium finishers and I realized, of the 16 active riders who have been on a gt podium, 6 were born in 1990 and on top of that 3 more were born late 1989 (September or later) which means that of the 16 active riders with gt podiums 9 were born in a time span of 15 months. In the 15 months prior to that, not one single gt podium. At the same time, no active rider who has been on a gt podium was born after Tom Dumoulin who is already 27. How on earth is that possible? I can't be the only one amazed by that, right?
For example today, I was thinking about about the fact that although right now a lot of young gc riders are getting hyped, only a few really end up winning grand tours, or even getting podiums. For example right now there are only 7 active grand tour winners and two of them, Valverde and Cunego, are already so old that they could be the fathers of some young pros. Moreover, if I didn't forget someone there are also only 16 active riders who have been on a GT podium, so those guys are really pretty rare. So I thought, it's statistically probably rather unlikely that Bernal and Gaudu who were born with just a few months between each other would both become serious gt contenders. Then I was thinking again and realized, Froome and Nibali, the most successful active gt riders were also born with only a few months between, and then I realized the other three active gt winners who aren't in their late thirties were actually all three born in 1990 (Dumoulin, Quintana, Aru). So at that point I was starting to look at the podium finishers and I realized, of the 16 active riders who have been on a gt podium, 6 were born in 1990 and on top of that 3 more were born late 1989 (September or later) which means that of the 16 active riders with gt podiums 9 were born in a time span of 15 months. In the 15 months prior to that, not one single gt podium. At the same time, no active rider who has been on a gt podium was born after Tom Dumoulin who is already 27. How on earth is that possible? I can't be the only one amazed by that, right?
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