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Riding Against both Father and Son

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Does anybody know which ex-pros rode l'Eroica in 2014? There's the potential for something unique there as there might be people who rode against both Gerrie and Roxane Knetemann as a result, but the only photos of pros I can find there are of the Rabo girls in their period costume and PFP in Gerrie's old rainbow jersey.
 
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Does anybody know which ex-pros rode l'Eroica in 2014? There's the potential for something unique there as there might be people who rode against both Gerrie and Roxane Knetemann as a result, but the only photos of pros I can find there are of the Rabo girls in their period costume and PFP in Gerrie's old rainbow jersey.
you can find the full list of participants from 2014 via archive.org


I'm afraid you'd need to filter for pros manually, though.
 
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So, I got curious and did a bit of snooping around. There are a bunch of riders in the pro peloton who have been riding against both a father and his son. Here are a few examples:

Mauri and Wim Vansevenant (any riders who turned pro in 2008 or earlier)
Rick and Erik Zabel (same as above)
Pavel and Alexei (2005 or earlier)

Anyone who can think of others (doesn't have to involve currently active riders)?

If you have both raced against a PCS clone and the rider, who was orignally cloned, would that count?
 
Andrea Tafi raced against Endrio Leoni (for example at Tirreno Adriatico 1991) and his son Alberto Leoni in V4 Special Series Vasarosnameny - Nyiregyhaza 2019. In fact he has beaten him quite easily in the bunch sprint (place 45 to place 50). Something which Tafi rarely accomplished against his father.
 
So which father and son couples (both professionals) have not had anyone race against both of them? To start with has there been such a father and son couple were both of them has started a GT?
On the former, I'm having a hard time tracing anybody that might have raced against Hans-Jürgen Geschke (a track rider who retired in the late 70s) and his son Simon, since Jürgen was 42 when Simon was born and they specialised in completely different types of racing. Matthias Kittel rode for SC Turbine Erfurt in the early 80s but retired in 1984 so it's unlikely anybody who rode against him rode against Marcel.
 
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So which father and son couples (both professionals) have not had anyone race against both of them? To start with has there been such a father and son couple were both of them has started a GT?
Well, if we look at father-son couples where the father was only a pro for a short time, we could find some extra.
André & Tom Boonen
Patrick & Remco Evenepoel
But André, Patrick and Remconever started a GT.
What about Adri & Matthieu (and David) Van der Poel? Sven Nys raced against both, but I don't know if that includes road races.
 
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