The Cycling Quiz Game

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Other quiz games have existed on here in the past, but apart from the Guess Who game they haven't been kept alive.
This game is simple: One person asks a cycling related question, and whoever is first to deliver the correct answer gets to ask the next question.
Then we'll see how long we can keep it going for. I hope some of you will want to play along.


The difficulty of the questions may vary from "who has won the most Grand Tour stages between Peter Sagan and Peter Velits?" to "who broke a spoke when she rode over a pothole in the feed zone on stage 3 of the 1991 edition of the women's Giro d'Italia?" (I don't know whether any rider actually did experience that). As long as the questions revolve around cycling in some way, they are allowed in.

In case it proves to be too hard for anyone to guess the correct answer to a question, the questioner can either give some clues or decide to ask a different question instead. Also, if the questioner wants to, they're allowed to ask multiple questions, that may or may not have some kind of connection or overall theme, or questions with multiple answers. Then the winner of the round will be whoever gets credited with most correct answers.

Now it's not easy for most of us to check whether someone else has searched the web in order to find a correct answer, so I will let it be up to people themselves to decide if their moral compasses allows them to do that or not, but as a rule of thumb, I think it should be avoided unless the game appears to be stuck. The purpose is to exercise our little grey cells, not our Googling or AI skills. It is still perfectly fine to check whether a hunch you may have is accurate or not before you give it as an answer.
 
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I will kick things off with a not too difficult question:

Who became the first Spanish rider to win the Tour de France?
 
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Federico Martín Bahamontes, also as far as I'm aware the only rider prior to Antonio Tiberi also known to have shot a cat, although in Bahamontes' case we have two significant caveats: firstly, this was during childhood and while the family was starving due to post-Civil War conditions in Spain and that his father had been on the Republican side in the conflict meant he was not entitled to a pension. The second caveat is that the source for this is Bahamontes himself, and the Eagle of Toledo was always known as somebody who would never let facts get in the way of a good story.
 
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Bahamontes is one of only two riders to have won all three Grand Tours' King of the Mountains titles, who is the other?
 
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None of the above (though credit where it's due for thinking outside the box by picking a female rider - the answer is not, however, a female rider)
 
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Robert Millar?
Jose Maria Jimenez?
Fausto Coppi?
Charly Gaul?
or how about Christopher Clive Froome?
 
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In 2006 I read on teletext on Danish television that a Dane had won the women's Tour de France.
I thought it was good for them that they had a Tour as well. It wasn't until years later I discovered that not only wasn't there an official Tour de France for women, the race in question wasn't even the closest they had to one at the time.

Who was the winner of this race? Linda Villumsen (RhD)
What is the name of the race she won?
 
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(Now we have to answer three questions?!)

Linda Villumsen (or was she already Kiwi in 2006?)
Garmin
Tour Feminin
 
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Villumsen is correct, but the other two answers aren't. However I have decided to omit question 2, because I misremembered things. The answer is Flexpoint, while I was sure she already rode for T-Mobile that year.
 
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Okay, I've cheated and looked it up.
Should I post it here, and take the turn, or do we wait for someone else to provide the answer and get the turn?
 
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Okay, I've cheated and looked it up.
Should I post it here, and take the turn, or do we wait for someone else to provide the answer and get the turn?

I feel certain that LS knows the answer, but if you provide it we'll avoid a draw.