This is very random!
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No, the second Vino isn‘t Vino sr., but Nico Vino‘s brother. I don‘t think he‘s a dad yet.This is very random!
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So, we get two winners, and two dads!
No, the second Vino isn‘t Vino sr., but Nico Vino‘s brother. I don‘t think he‘s a dad yet.
No, the second Vino isn‘t Vino sr., but Nico Vino‘s brother. I don‘t think he‘s a dad yet.
But Van Aert is a dad, so the claim wasn't wrong.
Georges might even have won a kids' race at his kindergarten.
He doesn't have a PCS profile I can boost.
I suppose they think people should be able to spell their own names before getting a profile.
Silly them...
Pogi after Ronde '22Does someone have an overview of the highest rolling CQ Scores ever?
Because of the ongoing GOAT debate I decided to waste time by looking at the All Time ranking on PCS and seeing who had the highest score over 4 years. I used their All Time ranking scoring system for that instead of the regular one.
Obviously the winner was Merckx (1858,4 points) but I then graphed any rider that ever scored over 400 points (and the best old ones before riders scored that high) to see who actually had the biggest gap on the competition. In that regard Kelly does compete with Merckx and Pogacar just might do so soon enough.
What I did note though is that once Merckx broke this scoring barrier we saw several cyclists also scoring way higher than their predecessors (De Vlaeminck, Hinault, Maertens, Saronni, Kelly and Moser). Now with Pogacar we might be witnessing the beginnings of a similar peak (Roglic, Evenepoel, Van Aert, Vingegaard).
Here's the graph:
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Note: Bartali probably did have some closer competition but they didn't score over 400 points in 4 seasons. In hindsight I added a few riders below 400 to illustrate Girardengo's dominance and might still do so for Bartali and Guerra too.
It definitely does somewhat favor very dominant sprinters imo.Impressive that the guy with the second highest peak on that graph doesn't have a single monument to his name.
Edit: Some more numbers.Here's the graph:
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The trend you see is from riders who dominate the whole season (Merckx, Kelly ...) to specialists (classics, sprinters, GC riders, TT ...) and now back to riders that are more generalists and dominate the season.Because of the ongoing GOAT debate I decided to waste time by looking at the All Time ranking on PCS and seeing who had the highest score over 4 years. I used their All Time ranking scoring system for that instead of the regular one.
Obviously the winner was Merckx (1858,4 points) but I then graphed any rider that ever scored over 400 points (and the best old ones before riders scored that high) to see who actually had the biggest gap on the competition. In that regard Kelly does compete with Merckx and Pogacar just might do so soon enough.
What I did note though is that once Merckx broke this scoring barrier we saw several cyclists also scoring way higher than their predecessors (De Vlaeminck, Hinault, Maertens, Saronni, Kelly and Moser). Now with Pogacar we might be witnessing the beginnings of a similar peak (Roglic, Evenepoel, Van Aert, Vingegaard).
Here's the graph:
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Note: Bugno is incorrectly labelled and should be Rominger instead.
Note: Bartali probably did have some closer competition but they didn't score over 400 points in 4 seasons. In hindsight I added a few riders below 400 to illustrate Girardengo's dominance and might still do so for Bartali and Guerra too.
Note: In case anyone's wondering Alberto Contador would have sat at 584,4 at the end of 2011. This would have been the highest score since Jalabert but still ecplised by Sagan.
I wan gonna post that today.Probably already covered but I just wanted to make sure: no rider in history has podiumed 6 consecutive GTs to start his career, right?
2020: Nobody, because the whole race happened in late August-September, which made winning on 14/7 kind of complicated...
As the route stayed stayed as planned, just the dates were changed, I can note that Lennard Kämna won the stage originally planned for Bastille Day.
I thought that was confirming the insignificance.Yeah, but I don't think the significance was quite the same...
I thought that was confirming the insignificance.
what is the smallest nation to claim a WT win in the mens/womens peloton?