So how many TDF stages will Cav have collected when he is done?

[robow7]

As long as they can keep that Columbia train intact, and as young as he is, he might just end up there with the greats in the high 20's.

Eddy Merckx ( Belgium) - 34
Bernard Hinault ( France) - 28
André Leducq ( France) - 25 (including half-stages)
Nicolas Frantz ( Luxembourg) - 25
Lance Armstrong ( United States) - 22
André Darrigade ( France) - 22

 

[armstrong]

His number of wins this TdF is bordering on ridiculous.

 

[Jasper]

What's the most stages a pure sprinter has ever won? I know Zabel, McEwen and Cipollini all have 12, but there must be others with more?


EDIT: Just found out that Freddy Maertens took 16 stages back in the day. Cav will be there in no time...

 

[ilillillli]

10 years... 4 per year... 40! wait, that's not right...

 

[Coach Hawk]

10 years... 4 per year... 40! wait, that's not right...

4 years, 10 per year? Nope, that's not quite right either...

 

[ruamruam]

What's the most stages a pure sprinter has ever won? I know Zabel, McEwen and Cipollini all have 12, but there must be others with more?


EDIT: Just found out that Freddy Maertens took 16 stages back in the day. Cav will be there in no time...

Freddy Maertens didn't win all his stages sprinting he also won a number of time trials and prologues.

ruamruam

 

[perico]

Depends on the circumstances.

1. Will Cav turn into another Tom Steels?

2. Will Petacchi's team be given a wild card?

3. Will Tom Boonen quit doing blow?

 

[Cobber]

What's the most stages a pure sprinter has ever won? I know Zabel, McEwen and Cipollini all have 12, but there must be others with more?


EDIT: Just found out that Freddy Maertens took 16 stages back in the day. Cav will be there in no time...

Cav might break 16 but I don't think he will win much more than 20 stages. He seems invincible now, but so did Zabel and Cippolini in their prime. Cippo might have won more if he wasn't excluded from the race a couple of times......

 

[mambo#5]

Once hard fall at the finish line and all the predictions can be for naught.

 

[robow7]

Cav might break 16 but I don't think he will win much more than 20 stages. He seems invincible now, but so did Zabel and Cippolini in their prime. Cippo might have won more if he wasn't excluded from the race a couple of times......

I agree but the kid is so young and would not generally be considered quite in his prime

 

[Coach Hawk]

I agree but the kid is so young and would not generally be considered quite in his prime

Right. And we have to consider all the mountain stages he's going to win when he goes Jaja on us. (For the noobies, Jaja is Laurent Jalabert who won the green jersey twice and then went on to win the polka dot jersey twice.)

 

[Cobber]

Right. And we have to consider all the mountain stages he's going to win when he goes Jaja on us. (For the noobies, Jaja is Laurent Jalabert who won the green jersey twice and then went on to win the polka dot jersey twice.)

Not sure I'd classify Jaja as a pure sprinter..... he won Paris-Nice a bunch of times.