If I had to make a top 5 I would agree with some choices but your devaluation of MSR feels really weird to me. It's such a glaring omission from his palmares at the moment. Much more so than Strade Bianchi imo because he is not necessarily expected to win that one. So I assume you simply value Strade over MSR?I was thinking about which result would improve his palmares the most and my (very personal) list is as follows:
From this point of view Movistar (i.e., Patxi Vila) seems to be the best choice.
- WC RR (in fact any medal)
- OG RR
- Gent Wevelgem
- Strade Bianche
- Any monument ( MSR being the least valuable)
Gent-Wevelgem is only included because of him getting the record, right? Then I find it odd that you are fine with him just taking any medal at the WC RR. Because taking another medal there would not give him any record (just look at how many medals Valverde has). Only a win would.
Imo the Gent-Wevelgem record is not that big either because while the race is important it is not on the level of monuments.