TDF Trivia quiz

[Pantani_lives]

Hitch isn't online anymore. I have a question in mind, but I suppose I can't ask it now.

 

[The Hitch]

Hitch isn't online anymore. I have a question in mind, but I suppose I can't ask it now.

Go ahead. ill reserve the right to ask one at some future point.

 

[Pantani_lives]

Thanks, Hitch.

Who's the tallest rider ever to win the Tour de France?

 

[Bexon30]

Thanks, Hitch.

Who's the tallest rider ever to win the Tour de France?

Wiggins? 6.3

 

[Pantani_lives]

Wiggins? 6.3

Correct!

1 Wiggins 189 cm
2 Indurain 188 cm
3 A. Schleck 186 cm

 

[webvan]

What about Moreau ?

Hum, ok 1.86 m officially !

 

[DenisMenchov]

What about Moreau ?

Hum, ok 1.86 m officially !

And when was the last time Moreau won the Tour???

 

[webvan]

Well he eighth in 2003 ;-)

 

[DenisMenchov]

Well he eighth in 2003 ;-)

For the French it might have felt like a win

 

[Microchip]

Twenty years apart ? Possibly, ok, here's another hint, the year the second time it happened was in the cycling news today.

Free cycling app?

Oops!

 

[Bexon30]

Correct!

1 Wiggins 189 cm
2 Indurain 188 cm
3 A. Schleck 186 cm

Vladimir Gusev was the last wearer of the maillot blanc to leave English shores who was the previous wearer to leave English soil?

 

[RedheadDane]

Would that be this young guy named Lance? (In the 1994 Tour when stage 4 and 5 were held in GB)

 

[Bexon30]

Would that be this young guy named Lance? (In the 1994 Tour when stage 4 and 5 were held in GB)

That's correct, the year Marco won the white.

 

[RedheadDane]

What country has had the highest numbers of riders in the Tour with not two riders on the same team?

 

[DenisMenchov]

What country has had the highest numbers of riders in the Tour with not two riders on the same team?

Do you know the answer yourself?

 

[Miburo]

What country has had the highest numbers of riders in the Tour with not two riders on the same team?

Ok let's take a gamble. Colombia?

Really good question btw.

 

[Bexon30]

Ok let's take a gamble. Colombia?

Really good question btw.

Gamble.... Norway?

 

[King Boonen]

Ok let's take a gamble. Colombia?

Really good question btw.

I'd guess at the more obscure European countries, Something Like Denmark, Norway etc.

I hope he actually knows the answer...

 

[Miburo]

I doubt it's denmark, for example saxo will not count if it happened in one of the previours tour's since more than 1.

And i don't know many danish riders outside saxo in recent years at least.

 

[The Hitch]

So wait, we are counting which country has had the highest number of riders in the Tour (100 editions) without EVER having 2 riders on 1 team. Is that even possible to find out?

Seeing as it used to be national teams this will be very hard. It would have to be a country that didn't send a team back then.

Definately not Colombia cos they had a team in the 80's.

im thinking maybe Canada which this year has 3 riders on 3 seperate teams, maybe Poland which has likewise, Slovakia perhaps, but answer is probably way more obscure than that.

 

[The Hitch]

I doubt it's denmark, for example saxo will not count if it happened in one of the previours tour's since more than 1.

And i don't know many danish riders outside saxo in recent years at least.

This year there are 3 Danish riders but 0 on saxo. But yest in the past they will have had more than 1 thereby disqualifying them.

 

[King Boonen]

So wait, we are counting which country has had the highest number of riders in the Tour (100 editions) without EVER having 2 riders on 1 team. Is that even possible to find out?

Seeing as it used to be national teams this will be very hard. It would have to be a country that didn't send a team back then.

Definately not Colombia cos they had a team in the 80's.

im thinking maybe Canada which this year has 3 riders on 3 seperate teams, maybe Poland which has likewise, Slovakia perhaps, but answer is probably way more obscure than that.

That's the slightly confusing bit, but I'm assuming it means that if there are two on any team it removes that whole country from the running, not just those on that team.

 

[kanari]

I'm thinking maybe Australia at some point, but that's just me speculating...

 

[Miburo]

I think he means the most riders in 1 tour, not in total (all the tours). I hope at least otherwise it's pretty much impossible to find out.

Whatever, i have no idea, maybe he means from all the tour editions. Good luck with that...lol

 

[King Boonen]

I think he means the most riders in 1 tour, not in total (all the tours). I hope at least otherwise it's pretty much impossible to find out.

Whatever, i have no idea, maybe he means from all the tour editions. Good luck with that...lol

I think this is right.

I'm also slowly coming to the opinion that he doesn't know and it's going to be the most frustrating thing in the world...