greenedge said:
I voted for Contador. 1 minute later i feel like a traitor.
Contador is evidently better at GT's and that is their main focus. Evans does have a better sprint, better at one day, seems better in the ITT (most of the time) and is evidently better on a MTB and the cobbles but Contador can climb superbly and is not that far behind in other areas, other than on a MTB.
If only Evans had started riding GT's earlier- then his palmares might have made this poll closer.
2003 – ONCE-Eroski
Tour de Pologne
1st, Stage 8 (ITT)
2005 – Liberty Seguros-Würth
Vuelta al País Vasco
3rd Overall classification
1st, Stage 5b (ITT)
2008 – Astana
Vuelta a Castilla y León
Winner overall classification
1st, Stage 1 (ITT)
Vuelta al País Vasco
Winner overall classification
1st Stage 6 (ITT)
2009 – Astana
Volta ao Algarve
Winner overall classification
1st, Stage 4 (ITT)
Paris–Nice
4th overall classification
1st, Stage 1 (ITT)
Vuelta al País Vasco
Winner overall classification
1st, Stage 6 (ITT)
1st Spanish National Time Trial Championships
Tour de France
Winner overall classification
1st, Stage 18 (ITT)
2010 – Astana
Vuelta a Castilla y León
Winner overall classification
1st, Stage 4 (ITT)
Critérium du Dauphiné
2nd, overall classification
1st, Prologue (ITT)
2011 - Saxobank
Vuelta a Murcia
Winner overall classification
1st, Stage 3 (ITT)
Vuelta a Castilla y León
1st, Stage 4 (ITT)
Giro d'Italia
Winner overall classification
1st, Stage 16 (ITT)
Evans is not better most of the time. And why would you even compare them on MTB? Road racing forum and neither of them are doing MTB anymore on a professional level... And like I said, any comparison on cobbles is idiotic. They only met on cobbles once and Contador got taken out by a clumsy crash before the real cobbles had started. Both Evans and Contador would get owned in Paris-Roubaix anyway.