TDF Trivia quiz

[Zam_Olyas]

Not part of the quiz.
Anyone know which year did the tdf have an early start then june 20th?

 

[BVB6BVB]

Not part of the quiz.
Anyone know which year did the tdf have an early start then june 20th?

In 1927 and 28.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

In 1927 and 28.

Thank you.

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[Libertine Seguros]

At last year's race, Peter Sagan took the points jersey on stage 2 and took it all the way to Paris. This is the closest we've come to somebody taking a jersey all the way since Emanuele Sella took the mountains jersey from stage 2 (there was a TTT so no mountains points awarded in stage 1) to the finish in the Giro in 2008.

But when was the last time a rider held a jersey from start to finish at the Tour?

 

[Netserk]

Jan Ullrich white jersey in '97? (although there wasn't any jersey, so I don't know if it counts )

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Doesn't count, although that IS the last time somebody led a classification start to finish.

Similarly Djamolidine Abdoujaparov held the maillot vert from stage 1 to 21 in 1994 but as Chris Boardman won the prologue Indurain (who was 2nd in the prologue) wore green in stage 1, so Abdou sadly doesn't count either.

 

[Netserk]

Freddy Martens 1976 green jersey?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Kapow. Your go.

Points jersey seems to be "the one" for that at the Tour. As well as Maertens, Sagan and Abdou, there's also Boonen 2007 (stage 2 to 4 and 6 to 20), McEwen 2006 (stage 4 to the end), McEwen 2004 (stages 3 to 5 and 8 to the end), Zabel 1998 (stage 5 to the end), Zabel 1997 (stage 3 to the end) and Jalabert 1992 (stage 6 to the end) who've held it more than two weeks recently.

 

[Netserk]

Who was the first rider to wear the white jersey?

 

[rghysens]

Who was the first rider to wear the white jersey?

Charly Grosskost?

 

[Ruby United]

Who was the first rider to wear the white jersey?

David Millar but he was in yellow so it was David Canada.

 

[Netserk]

Charly Grosskost?

Nope.

(but close)

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Italo Zilioli. Grosskost wasn't awarded it as there were no mountain points available in the prologue, unlike the Vuelta now where it awards for best place in the 2 classifications until a place in all 3 classifications is possible.

 

[Netserk]

Italo Zilioli. Grosskost wasn't awarded it as there were no mountain points available in the prologue, unlike the Vuelta now where it awards for best place in the 2 classifications until a place in all 3 classifications is possible.

Exactly.

Note that from 1968-1975 the white jersey was awarded to the leader of the combination classification. Since then it was awarded to the leader of the young riders classification, but the jersey wasn't used in the years of 1989-1999.

 

[Ruby United]

Italo Zilioli. Grosskost wasn't awarded it as there were no mountain points available in the prologue, unlike the Vuelta now where it awards for best place in the 2 classifications until a place in all 3 classifications is possible.

Why wasn't there one between 1988 and 99?

 

[rghysens]

Why wasn't there one between 1988 and 99?

Because the organisation wanted to get rid of the multitude of jerseys and awards (jellow, green, polka dot, white, combiné, for some time even intermediate sprints (was a brown jersey, IIRC), yellow caps (best team),...).

 

[The Hitch]

Ive got a question for the 2 correct answers i gave earlier. When there is an opening of course.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Go for it, although we can always have parallel ones since you missed your one from earlier. I have a new question as well.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Olympic cycling has been open to professionals. As a result there are a great many riders who have Olympic medals at home who have won Tour de France stages - Vino, Samu, Cancellara, Bettini et al.

However, before this point the Olympic road race was the preserve of amateurs. There are 10 riders who, in the period between the end of WWII to the fall of the Soviet Union, have won medals in an Olympic road race and at least one stage of the Tour de France. One of whom even won the entire thing.

Name them.

 

[Netserk]

I could only find 7

Olaf Ludwig
Dag Otto Lauritzen
Hennie Kuiper
Walter Godefroot
Willy Vanden Berghen
Ercole Baldini
Gerrit Voorting

 

[Carlo Algatrensig]

I could only find 7

Olaf Ludwig
Dag Otto Lauritzen
Hennie Kuiper
Walter Godefroot
Willy Vanden Berghen
Ercole Baldini
Gerrit Voorting

Didn't Erik Dekker take the bronze in Barcelona so that would be another

 

[The Hitch]

Go for it, although we can always have parallel ones since you missed your one from earlier. I have a new question as well.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Olympic cycling has been open to professionals. As a result there are a great many riders who have Olympic medals at home who have won Tour de France stages - Vino, Samu, Cancellara, Bettini et al.

However, before this point the Olympic road race was the preserve of amateurs. There are 10 riders who, in the period between the end of WWII to the fall of the Soviet Union, have won medals in an Olympic road race and at least one stage of the Tour de France. One of whom even won the entire thing.

Name them.

Ill have a try at this first. Have 8 so far. Yes i just went through wikipedia checking all the stats.

Hennie Kuiper
Erik Dekker
Steve Bauer
Gerrit Voorting
Ercole Baldini
Willy Vanden Berghen
Walter Godefroot
Dag Otto Lauritzen

Edit: Add Olaf Ludwig from Netserks list so 9

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I could only find 7

Olaf Ludwig
Dag Otto Lauritzen
Hennie Kuiper
Walter Godefroot
Willy Vanden Berghen
Ercole Baldini
Gerrit Voorting

You have all 7 from the normal road race.

From 1948 to 1960 there was a Team Road Race, in which Rik van Looy, Dino Bruni and Jacques Anquetil took medals. This was replaced after that by the Team Time Trial.

*edit* doh, forgot Bauer won a stage in '88! So actually there's 11.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Ill have a try at this first. Have 8 so far. Yes i just went through wikipedia checking all the stats.

Hennie Kuiper
Erik Dekker
Steve Bauer
Gerrit Voorting
Ercole Baldini
Willy Vanden Berghen
Walter Godefroot
Dag Otto Lauritzen

Edit: Add Olaf Ludwig from Netserks list so 9

Good spot on Bauer. I'll plead guilty to that. Dekker won an Olympic medal as an amateur, but Barcelona was after the fall of the Soviet Union, so outside the time frame.

 

[The Hitch]

Zoetemerckx
Fedor den Hertog
Jan Krekels

Ergo

Olaf Ludwig
Dag Otto Lauritzen
Hennie Kuiper
Walter Godefroot
Willy Vanden Berghen
Ercole Baldini
Gerrit Voorting
Steve Bauer
Joop Zoetemerckx
Fedor den Hertog
Jan Krekels

 

[Libertine Seguros]

OK - I was defining "Road Race" as in the specific discipline, not extending "Road Race" to include the TTT (just as Vino is the Olympic Road Race champion), but I guess I made a rod for my own back by getting a bit too cute with the discontinued Team Road Race discipline.

Let's hear your question then, Hicz!