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Vincenzo Nibali has gone longer without a stage win in the Giro than in both the Tour and the Vuelta.

Alberto Contador never won another Tour stage after 2009, meaning his last-ever Tour stage victory was a TT. He also doesn't officially have a Giro stage to his name as those in 2011 were stripped.

By taking his eighth Tour stage on Friday, Tadej Pogacar now has more Tour stage wins than any other Tour GC winner since Pantani, who also has eight (not including Armstrong's stripped results). He also has more professional wins than Cavendish did at this age, and just four less than Froome managed in his entire career.

Joaquim Rodriguez never won the GC in a professional race outside of Spain.
 
Remco Evenepoel's dad, Mathieu Van der Poel's dad and Wout Van Aert's dad's cousin where all teammates at Collstrop in 1994

When Thomas de Gendt rode the 2021 Tour of Norway it was the first non-World Tour race he had ridden for four years (excluding Belgian nationals)

Andy Schleck's last victory was before Chris Froome's first victory. But Froome is a month older than Schleck.
 
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The gap between Frank Vandenbroucke's second-to-last and last UCI win was nine years, six months and eleven days.

Andrea Tafi, Steffen Wesemann and Nick Nuyens never won a race again after winning the Ronde van Vlaanderen.

Ivan Gotti has won only four UCI races, two of which were the GCs of the Giro d'Italia.

Gotti won 5 UCI wins: two Giro stages and two Giro GCs as well as a stage in the Volta a Catalunya.

Both PCS and FirstCycling also says he won the 1999 GP Nobili Rubinetterie. PCS list it as having been a 1.1 race, but FC says it was national event. However Wikipedia claims Salvatore Commesso won it.

Anyone here who watched the race and can confirm the actual result?
 
Gotti won 5 UCI wins: two Giro stages and two Giro GCs as well as a stage in the Volta a Catalunya.

Both PCS and FirstCycling also says he won the 1999 GP Nobili Rubinetterie. PCS list it as having been a 1.1 race, but FC says it was national event. However Wikipedia claims Salvatore Commesso won it.

Anyone here who watched the race and can confirm the actual result?
On the archived pages of the organiser you can read that in 1999 the GP Nobili was the Italian Championships in Arona, won by Salvatore Commesso.

I guess PCS and FC copied the wrong info.
 
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Marianne Vos has ridden 11 Giri and won at least one stage in each of them.

Miguel Indurain never won a Vuelta stage. Neither did Greg LeMond

Bernard Hinault never finished outside the podium in a GT he finished, and he lead the race at some point in all those he rode. He never won Paris-Nice.

Eddy Merckx won pretty much everything except for Paris-Tours. Both he and Hinault had a 6th place as their best result in that race.

Freddy Maertens never won a monument.

Not only did Jaan Kirsipuu never finish a GT in 15 starts, he never even made it to the third week of one.

The runner-up in the Tour de France have had a given name starting with J 23 times. J first names are also most common among thrid place finishers with 19.
The race has been won by someone with a given name starting with L 20 (or13) times. The 2000 and 2001 Tours are the only ones to have had an L winner, a J runner-up and a J in third place.
I know the calendar was different that time with the placement of the Vuelta but very surprised that as a Spaniard Indurain showed such a lack of interest in his home Grand Tour.

Kudos also to @Mosul for that remarkable German Champs Elysee stage stat
 
Kudos also to @Mosul for that remarkable German Champs Elysee stage stat

Here's the list of German riders who have had a top-10 on the Champs Elysee stage since 1990

1990 Ludwig 3rd, Raab 10th
1991 Ludwig 2nd
1992 Ludwig 1st
1993 Raab 4th
1994 Ludwig 10th
1995 Zabel 6th
1996 Zabel 5th
1997 Zabel 2nd
1998 Zabel 5th
1999 Zabel 2nd, Wesemann 9th
2000 Zabel 2nd
2001 Zabel 2nd, Teutenberg 4th
2002 Zabel 7th
2003 Zabel 7th
2004 Hondo 3rd, Zabel 5th
2005 Forster 10th
2006 Zabel 4th
2007 Zabel 3rd, Forster 9th
2008 Ciolek 2nd, Forster 7th, Zabel 10th
2009 Ciolek 4th
2010 Ciolek 6th
2011 Greipel 3rd, Ciolek 9th
2012 Greipel 8th
2013 Kittel 1st, Greipel 2nd
2014 Kittel 1st, Greipel 4th
2015 Greipel 1st, Degenkolb 8th
2016 Greipel 1st
2017 Greipel 2nd, Selig 9th
2018 Degenkolb 2nd
2019 Greipel 6th, Arndt 9th
2020 Walscheid 10th
2021 Greipel 5th, Walscheid 10th
 
Here's the list of German riders who have had a top-10 on the Champs Elysee stage since 1990

1990 Ludwig 3rd, Raab 10th
1991 Ludwig 2nd
1992 Ludwig 1st
1993 Raab 4th
1994 Ludwig 10th
1995 Zabel 6th
1996 Zabel 5th
1997 Zabel 2nd
1998 Zabel 5th
1999 Zabel 2nd, Wesemann 9th
2000 Zabel 2nd
2001 Zabel 2nd, Teutenberg 4th
2002 Zabel 7th
2003 Zabel 7th
2004 Hondo 3rd, Zabel 5th
2005 Forster 10th
2006 Zabel 4th
2007 Zabel 3rd, Forster 9th
2008 Ciolek 2nd, Forster 7th, Zabel 10th
2009 Ciolek 4th
2010 Ciolek 6th
2011 Greipel 3rd, Ciolek 9th
2012 Greipel 8th
2013 Kittel 1st, Greipel 2nd
2014 Kittel 1st, Greipel 4th
2015 Greipel 1st, Degenkolb 8th
2016 Greipel 1st
2017 Greipel 2nd, Selig 9th
2018 Degenkolb 2nd
2019 Greipel 6th, Arndt 9th
2020 Walscheid 10th
2021 Greipel 5th, Walscheid 10th

So Degenkolb and Walscheid have the whole pressure on their shoulders to keep the streak going this year, as the other viable option (Krieger) should be on team duties in that stage.
 
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