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Bernie's eyesore said:Two nominations for Valverde's non solo win in Roma Maxima. If that was a solo win then I nominate Froome's win in the Dauphine.
Proposed necessary and sufficient conditions for a victory to classify as 'solo':
1. A time difference to the second placed guy of at least one second.
2. The decisive attack that achieved separation from the pack of chasers occurred at least x km from the finish.
Froome's valiant effort fails both criteria and is hence not a solo win. Valverde's is.
If we include a further condition the set of solo victory shrinks markedly:
3. The winner must have have been alone from the moment the decisive attack was made.
Then Valverde's win isn't a solo finish, neither is Kwiatkowski's Strade Bianche.