Rank the top 5 cyclists from your country by palmares

[macbindle]

1.G
2.Rowe or Doull
4.....

4 current Welsh WT riders

Not to mention Nicole Cooke

 

[virenque216]

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As far as I know Anton Tkac only raced on track. It is quite hard to compare results during iron curtain and post iron curtain, I guess my top 5 post iron curtain would be:

1.Peter Sagan - One of a kind
2.Jan Svorada - Multiple GT stage wins, yes he is Slovak not Czech
3.Peter Velits - 2nd in the Vuelta,multiple great TT results and short stage races
4.Jan Valach - very good TT, also always performed very well in RR worlds, very consistent performer
5. Milan Dvorscik - 2nd in the World RR for non pros 1994, as a junior went toe to toe with the likes of Virenque and Rebellin,very talented, now our only licensed UCI referee






quote="alter"]1.Peter Sagan.
2.Anton Tkac
3. Jan Svorada
4. Peter Velits
5. Milan Jurco
6. Erik Baska[/quote]

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Merckx
Van Looy
Van Steenbergen
De Vlaeminck
Boonen

The Nr.4 is such an eyesore.

 

[jmdirt]

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For the US, take that list and add Tejay van Garderen and Andrew Talensky and you've got your current list.

1. Lance Armstrong
2. Greg Lemond
3. Andrew Hampsten
4. Levi Leipheimer
5. Tejay van Garderen
6. Andrew Talensky
7. Christian Vande Velde
8. George Mount
9. Bobby Julrich
10. George Hincapie
11. David Zabriskie
12. Davis Phinney

Yes I copy and pasted and added the two riders that needed added.

This is your top 5? It looks like the USAers and Aussies can't count/read! :lol:
1-LA
2-Lemond
3-Hamston
4-Leipheimer
5-TvG

EDIT: As to the other discussion going on within this thread, we still count LA even though he is from TX!

RE: Parker: its the pro road thread so road is assumed, but just to light it up:
Dirt:
1-Johnny T
2-Ned
3-Juli
4-Tinker
5-Brian Lopes

 

[Parker]

1. Chris Froome
2. Mark Cavendish
3. Nicole Cooke
4. Bradley Wiggins
5. Tom Simpson

(Road only)

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Merckx
Van Looy
Van Steenbergen
De Vlaeminck
Boonen

The Nr.4 is such an eyesore.

That's the same as the one i posted, but i had 3 and 4 swapped.

 

[Koronin]

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For the US, take that list and add Tejay van Garderen and Andrew Talensky and you've got your current list.

1. Lance Armstrong
2. Greg Lemond
3. Andrew Hampsten
4. Levi Leipheimer
5. Tejay van Garderen
6. Andrew Talensky
7. Christian Vande Velde
8. George Mount
9. Bobby Julrich
10. George Hincapie
11. David Zabriskie
12. Davis Phinney

Yes I copy and pasted and added the two riders that needed added.

This is your top 5? It looks like the USAers and Aussies can't count/read! :lol:
1-LA
2-Lemond
3-Hamston
4-Leipheimer
5-TvG

EDIT: As to the other discussion going on within this thread, we still count LA even though he is from TX!

RE: Parker: its the pro road thread so road is assumed, but just to light it up:
Dirt:
1-Johnny T
2-Ned
3-Juli
4-Tinker
5-Brian Lopes

Actually the list is more of a, there's really not a whole lot to choose from list. Yes LA is still counted as last I checked TX is part of the US.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

What has Tejay done to get above Chris Horner on palmarès?

 

[jmdirt]

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What has Tejay done to get above Chris Horner on palmarès?

He (EDIT: CH) was born in Japan (see related argument above)! :lol:

Honestly though, CH could hop TvG on that list especially if you count his USA results. I actually had CH 4th on my first list. I guess I'm already counting TvG's win this year in France.

 

[Koronin]

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What has Tejay done to get above Chris Horner on palmarès?

Most of them I actually put at the same level.

 

[The Hegelian]

Re: Re:

For the US, take that list and add Tejay van Garderen and Andrew Talensky and you've got your current list.

1. Lance Armstrong
2. Greg Lemond
3. Andrew Hampsten
4. Levi Leipheimer
5. Tejay van Garderen
6. Andrew Talensky
7. Christian Vande Velde
8. George Mount
9. Bobby Julrich
10. George Hincapie
11. David Zabriskie
12. Davis Phinney

Yes I copy and pasted and added the two riders that needed added.

This is your top 5? It looks like the USAers and Aussies can't count/read! :lol:

I can't speak for Americans, but Australians are generally too aggressively hyper-masculine to bother with such trivialities as reading and counting. Or otherwise, pissed. Or most likely: both.

 

[macbindle]

 

[SHAD0W93]

I did it because it was started first with more and I feel like the bigger countries it makes more sense to do top 10.

 

[Echoes]

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Tough to classify after Merckx and Van Looy.

But De Vlaeminck is superior to Van Looy, both palmarès-wise and talent-wise and professionalism-wise. Van Looy only has a better reputation because he dominated the classics in his poorer era.

 

[Kafviar]

Maybe something like this:

1. Gösta Pettersson
2. Magnus Bäckstedt
3. Tommy Prim
4. Bernt Johansson

Don't know who to pick for fifth.

 

[tobydawq]

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Maybe something like this:

1. Gösta Pettersson
2. Magnus Bäckstedt
3. Tommy Prim
4. Bernt Johansson

Don't know who to pick for fifth.

Kessiakoff? Löfkvist? They both had their moments.

 

[dick the quick]

Estonia:

1. Jaan Kirsipuu
2. Rein Taaramae
3. Tanel Kangert
4. Lauri Aus
5. Mihkel Raim

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Re: Re:

Maybe something like this:

1. Gösta Pettersson
2. Magnus Bäckstedt
3. Tommy Prim
4. Bernt Johansson

Don't know who to pick for fifth.

Kessiakoff? Löfkvist? They both had their moments.

I've been very careful not to do 'the usual' so far in this thread, as there was a post about assuming what the criteria were on page 1, but here is far too obvious a point not to do it:

Emma Johansson.

Estonia:

1. Jaan Kirsipuu
2. Rein Taaramae
3. Tanel Kangert
4. Lauri Aus
5. Mihkel Raim

1. Aavo Pikkuus
2. Jaan Kirsipuu
3. Jaanus Kuum
4. Rein Taaramäe
5. Riho Suun

 

[tobydawq]

Re: Re:

Maybe something like this:

1. Gösta Pettersson
2. Magnus Bäckstedt
3. Tommy Prim
4. Bernt Johansson

Don't know who to pick for fifth.

Kessiakoff? Löfkvist? They both had their moments.

I've been very careful not to do 'the usual' so far in this thread, as there was a post about assuming what the criteria were on page 1, but here is far too obvious a point not to do it:

Emma Johansson.

Estonia:

1. Jaan Kirsipuu
2. Rein Taaramae
3. Tanel Kangert
4. Lauri Aus
5. Mihkel Raim

1. Aavo Pikkuus
2. Jaan Kirsipuu
3. Jaanus Kuum
4. Rein Taaramäe
5. Riho Suun

I had been wondering what had happened to you

 

[roundabout]

Estonia:

1. Jaan Kirsipuu
2. Rein Taaramae
3. Tanel Kangert
4. Lauri Aus
5. Mihkel Raim

I think Tombak should be among the 5.

 

[perico]

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What has Tejay done to get above Chris Horner on palmarès?

Hell Julich and Van de Velde rank higher than TJ. Davis Phinney should be much much higher.

 

[roundabout]

TJ is easily better than Vande Velde in shorter stage races and a 4th and an 8th in the Tour is not better than two 5ths.

The ranking is by palmares, right?

 

[perico]

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TJ is easily better than Vande Velde in shorter stage races and a 4th and an 8th in the Tour is not better than two 5ths.

The ranking is by palmares, right?

4th and 7th now. TeJay has a better record in the Week longs , which puts him ahead a bit, but there’s not much difference in their palmarés. VdV might actually be underrated by Americans some.

Neither one of them should be rated higher than Julich.

 

[jaylew]

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Great to hear that you represent the collective hivemind and know exactly what other forum members know or don't know.

Who would have thought that this:

I think you are stretching it a bit with Dan Martin. He's not from Ireland, he's from Staffordshire. He chose to represent his mother's country of birth because it opened up larger races to him (I'm sure you know all of this)

...pretty innocuous and certainly polite post would spark such a stream of aggresive bile from two or three people who clearly could start a fight in an empty room.

Know what? This thread had moved on. But you just had to poke in your nose and keep it going, didn't you. Don't bother replying, you are just another person about to be added to the ignore list.

But you're about done with this forum, remember?
You're the one that decided to correct everybody about where people are from, even a fellow poster.

 

[Kafviar]

Re: Re:

Maybe something like this:

1. Gösta Pettersson
2. Magnus Bäckstedt
3. Tommy Prim
4. Bernt Johansson

Don't know who to pick for fifth.

Kessiakoff? Löfkvist? They both had their moments.

Yeah, I'd probably pick Löfkvist.

I've been very careful not to do 'the usual' so far in this thread, as there was a post about assuming what the criteria were on page 1, but here is far too obvious a point not to do it:

Emma Johansson.

Of course Emma is on a top 5. Susanne Ljungskog as well (I think?) but I chose not to pick any women because I know too little about women's racing and the prestige in different races.