Mental or random cycling statistics

[RedheadDane]

And given that the previous record for sharing the top 10 on most stages was 9, Jonas has the record by a huge margin.

You do the count of how many top-10s they share!

 

[tobydawq]

You do the count of how many top-10s they share!

Somewhere between 12 and 98.

 

[RedheadDane]

Somewhere between 12 and 98.

And you call yourself a "math teacher"?

 

[MagliaNera]

With his win today, Tim Wellens is the first UAE rider not named Tadej Pogačar to win a TdF stage since Yates won in Bilbao in 2023.

In between these two wins, Pogačar won 12 TdF stages.

The stat looks more impressive in this PCS table:

 

[tobydawq]

And you call yourself a "math teacher"?

My statement is correct.

Although they now have ridden 99 stages together, but today they didn't both finish in the top 10, so we don't need to extend the upper limit of the interval.

 

[RedheadDane]

PCS with the important info:

Fact about van Aert Wout (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)
Wout van Aert featured as squirrel in 'The Masked Singer'.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

And you call yourself a "math teacher"?

Perhaps he's been spelling it wrong all this time and he's really a moth teacher? If it puts food on the table...

 

[RedheadDane]

Perhaps he's been spelling it wrong all this time and he's really a moth teacher? If it puts food on the table...

How do you teach moth?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

How do you teach moth?

I was thinking it was just someone who's teaching moths stuff in general, not necessarily about how to be a moth.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

How do you teach moth?

And how do you count moth teach?

 

[RedheadDane]

I was thinking it was just someone who's teaching moths stuff in general, not necessarily about how to be a moth.

That's also what I meant... how do you get the moth to sit still and listen?

And how do you count moth teach?

Wut?

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

How do you teach moth?

A lamp, different tasting cloth and enough flour. Also some perfume to establish different degrees of difficulty.

 

[RedheadDane]

A lamp, different tasting cloth and enough flour. Also some perfume to establish different degrees of difficulty.

Is that teaching people how to be moths (for some reason...), or getting moth to sit still long enough so you can teach them?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

That's also what I meant... how do you get the moth to sit still and listen?

I'd have to spend some time living as one before I could tell you that. You may call it mothod acting, if you will.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Wut?

I read something about counting, moth and teaching.
Maybe the riders concerned are hiding in the moth crowd in the classroom, hence difficult to come up with a precise number?

 

[rallybanana]

What is the record for finishing 2nd on a stage behind the same rider as Jonas must be rapidly approaching that.

Maria Canins and Jeannie Longo have been top 2 in TdF stages on 26 occasions. Longo won 14 and Canins won 12.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Is that teaching people how to be moths (for some reason...), or getting moth to sit still long enough so you can teach them?

Both, but mostly for teaching moth in a natural way on their own turf. Leaning is not just sitting still and listening. Especially not with moth. Try to cleanse yourself of the audio-immobil centric concepts of learning and see that for the moth, it's about movement, aearial movement, around the light, around smell and taste, around the everlasting pull that a light source has on the moth. Moth education only has three goals: teach the moth not to fly into the flame, make it eat your ennemies cloth and get high on perfume fumes yourself.

 

[RedheadDane]

Both, but mostly for teaching moth in a natural way on their own turf. Leaning is not just sitting still and listening. Especially not with moth. Try to cleanse yourself of the audio-immobil centric concepts of learning and see that for the moth, it's about movement, aearial movement, around the light, around smell and taste, around the everlasting pull that a light source has on the moth. Moth education only has three goals: teach the moth not to fly into the flame, make it eat your ennemies cloth and get high on perfume fumes yourself.

I think moth has the moth education down... pretty well.
Apart from the "not flying into the flame" bit...

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

I think moth has the moth education down... pretty well.
Apart from the "not flying into the flame" bit...

Enric Moth? When did he ever fly into the flame?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Milan and Merlier have raced against each other in 2 GTs and they've both won 3 stages in the first one and 2 stages in the second (so far). Every time Merlier has won Milan has been runner up, but Merlier's only top 10 finish in a Milan win is 5th (although he did initially finish second on stage 11 of last year's Giro before he was relegated for obstructing Molano). This also means that in those 10 GT stages, Kaden Groves has finished in the top 3 just as many times as Merlier.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Tadej Pocagar has still never beaten Fausto Masnada in a grand tour

 

[Izzyeviel]

Tadej Pocagar has still never beaten Fausto Masnada in a grand tour

& should he beat Jonas tomorrow, he'll finally match Primoz Roglic for most grand tour wins for a Slovenian. (pogacar has 3 tours & one giro compared with 4 vueltas & one giro for Roglic)

 

[Rou]

A lot of people are talking how the TDF 2025 is the fastest and toughest ever, etc.
For me that's a stat that means nothing when it's out of context.
I decided to check out which is the FASTEST GT Road Stage ever and I was SHOCKED.
Stage 9 of the Vuelta 2001 was 179.2 kms long and had an avg. Speed of 55.176 km/h!
My question is: How on Earth did this happen? Was there a hurricane or what?

 

[Izzyeviel]

that was the stage where the anti-doping van was allowed to follow the peloton for a stage.

just joking.

ONCE's Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano celebrated his first stage win in this year's Vuelta, breaking the record for the fastest ever stage in the Vuelta. Igor crossed the line alone after covering the 179.2 kilometres from Logroño to Zaragoza in 3:14:52, an average speed of 55.176 km/h. He smashed Marcel Wüst's average speed of 51.14 km/h in stage 14 of the 1998 Vuelta, as well as breaking the fastest average speed record in a Tour de France stage (55.152 km/h by Chris Boardman in the 1994 prologue). Only Rik Verbrugghe has ridden faster in a stage of a major tour: 58.895 km/h in the prologue of the 2001 Giro d'Italia.

Of course, he was helped by the slightly downhill profile of today's stage, and more importantly by the strong tailwinds that blew the riders along. The first two hours were ridden at 52.5 km/h, with an attack by Hvastija (Alessio) and Varriale (Panaria) succeeding in gaining 2'45 despite the speed of the race.

At kilometre 63, an important split occurred in the peloton, as 46 riders formed a front group with the notable exception of David Plaza (Festina, 4th on GC). Eight kilometres later, the two breakaways were caught and the pace increased to 60 km/h for the rest of the stage. Plaza didn't give up, and chased all the way to the finish, but he still lost 43 seconds to his principal rivals.

Vicente García Acosta (iBanesto) attacked a couple of times in the final 10 kilometres, but was caught each time. Igor González de Galdeano waited until the final kilometre, but when he went, no-one could follow him. He had plenty of time to sit up and celebrate his third ever Vuelta stage win, as Sven Teutenberg (Festina) beat Saeco's Biagio Conte and Salvatore Commesso in the bunch sprint.

Apart from Plaza dropping from 4th to 7th, there were no changes to the top of the GC. Tomorrow is a rest day before the riders tackle the Pyrenees next week.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Since his last win, Jonas Vingegaard has finished 2nd 12 times and 3rd 4 times. I don‘t believe this has ever happened before.