Among the five latest Giro winners, Carapaz is the only one to have won a bike race since the Giro win!
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Wow, time flies. I can't believe it's been 4½ years since Froome's last victory!Among the five latest Giro winners, Carapaz is the only one to have won a bike race after the Giro win!
But the race is Walloon ...More Flemish riders podiumed Liege-Bastogne-Liege in 2022 than in the previous 39 years.
That actually is pretty mental.Among the five latest Giro winners, Carapaz is the only one to have won a bike race after the Giro win!
With wins in some of them tooThat actually is pretty mental.
Another statistic I just thought of, in a few decades the Adam Hansen streak of 20 consecutive finished grand tours will look completely insane. I feel like the only reason it doesn't seem that unbelievable to me is because I witnessed it myself.
Richie Porte and Steven Kruijswijk come to mind IMO.Best riders to never have won a GT stage alltogether?
Who are some of the best riders to never have won a stage in Le Tour?
Another statistic I just thought of, in a few decades the Adam Hansen streak of 20 consecutive finished grand tours will look completely insane. I feel like the only reason it doesn't seem that unbelievable to me is because I witnessed it myself.
Riders in top-200 PCS all-time rankings who have never won a GT stage. In brackets is GT starts.Best riders to never have won a GT stage alltogether?
Yea, but towards the end it was kind of just like Keith Yandle's ironman streak, he was doing absolutely nothing, just in the aim of ensuring that he made it to the finish and kept the streak alive. At first it was a curio the fact that he'd done so many consecutive GTs, but by the end it was his entire raison d'être. Yandle got a lot of stick late in his streak for taking minimal minutes and avoiding contact as much as possible (making him a complete liability for a hockey defenseman!), but because of his trying to break the record no coach dared scratch him (except in the playoffs, which didn't count for the streak, so made the record a bit of a farce when he broke it anyway). Likewise for much of the streak Hansen went through all those brutal stages working hard day after day to make timecuts and do his job for his team, leading out sprints, pulling back escapees, protecting leaders, getting in breakaways... but he got spared missing the time cut at least once to artificially inflate that total (should have ended at the latest at Formigal in 2016, at Val Martello 2014 they also extended the time cut which the autobus would have been outside, but since that was agreed beforehand shouldn't be held against him like Formigal should) and although the ironman streak was over by then, his last memorable contribution to cycling being whining to get a stage shortened because he didn't fancy a long stage in the rain kind of puts a dampener on the esteem in which what he actually did achieve is held.That actually is pretty mental.
Another statistic I just thought of, in a few decades the Adam Hansen streak of 20 consecutive finished grand tours will look completely insane. I feel like the only reason it doesn't seem that unbelievable to me is because I witnessed it myself.
although Porte did get on the top step for a TTT in TDF18Riders in top-200 PCS all-time rankings who have never won a GT stage. In brackets is GT starts.
Frans Verbeeck (4)
Andrei Tchmil (11)
Richie Porte (17)
Claude Criquielion (16)
Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (16)
Sonny Colbrelli (10)
Andrea Tafi (14)
Niki Terpstra (15)
You mean like Tim Marsman winning a stage of the Tour de Normandie?If we use a coordinate system that isn't fixed to the Earth but a universal space-time system, then the numbers will be higher.
Don't forget about Portugal.Using Antipodesmap one can relatively easy find a point on the exact other side of the globe. New Zealand is antipodal to the Iberian Peninsula. So a Kiwi rider winning in Spain might challenge Sosa's achievement.
That would just be the oldest race winner with how quickly the universe is expanding, wouldn‘t it?If we use a coordinate system that isn't fixed to the Earth but a universal space-time system, then the numbers will be higher.
Would you need to take into account the effects of "Gravitational time dilation" as riders living in high-altitude regions age faster than riders living in low-lying countries?That would just be the oldest race winner with how quickly the universe is expanding, wouldn‘t it?
Richie Porte and Steven Kruijswijk come to mind IMO.