The Cycling Quiz Game

[RedheadDane]

Annemiek van Vleuten?

She's not active today, though.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

She's not active today, though.

I need to learn how to read.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Lucinda Brand.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Is it a trick question? is it Pauline herself, and she only became World Champion later?

No. Pauline was in yellow.

Annemiek van Vleuten?

Annemiek did wear the normal team jersey for part of the week, but was in green in the picture in question. And as RHD pointed out, is no longer active.

Lucinda Brand.

No. Lucinda was the national champion.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Anna van der Breggen?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Anna van der Breggen?

Mountains

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Apart from Vos, I can name two riders, who are still active that I know for sure were riding for Rabobank around this time.

Kasia?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Kasia was not at the race in question.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Then I hope my remaining option, Thalita de Jong, is the correct answer.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

It is.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The following questions all revolve around the original Euskaltel-Euskadi (1994-2013):

1) Who won the maiden victory for the Euskadi team in 1994? Agustín Sagastí (LS)
2) Who was the team's first ever GT stage winner?
3) Who won the Euskal Bizikleta in the year 2000? Haimar Zubeldia (LS)
4) Who allegedly started the 2001 Paris-Roubaix because general manager Miguel Madariaga had been forced to sign him by the team's sponsor and therefore wanted to punish him?
5) Who won the team's last WT win? Samuel Sánchez (RhD)
6) And who won the team's last ever victory? Juan José Lobato, 2013 Circuito de Getxo (LS)

 

[RedheadDane]

So now "ask a question" has become "ask as many questions as you like"?

I'm guessing Samuel Sanchez is the answer to at least one of these questions?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So now "ask a question" has become "ask as many questions as you like"?

I'm guessing Samuel Sanchez is the answer to at least one of these questions?

If you've read all the rules, you'd know that it is allowed.

If Samu's the answer, what's the question?

 

[RedheadDane]

If Samu's the answer, what's the question?

Samu won their last WT win?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Samu won their last WT win?

That is true. A bonus point will be given if someone can add when and where it happened.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

1) Agustín Sagastí, at the Santuário de Loyola in the Vuelta al País Vasco. I wrote about it in the Race Design Thread a couple of years back.
3) Haimar Zubeldia, I think it was his only win until about 2011 or something.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

1) Agustín Sagastí, at the Santuário de Loyola in the Vuelta al País Vasco. I wrote about it in the Race Design Thread a couple of years back.
3) Haimar Zubeldia, I think it was his only win until about 2011 or something.

They are both correct.

 

[RedheadDane]

3) Who won the Euskal Bizikleta in the year 2000? Haimar Zubeldia (LS)

Did anyone see him do it?

Okay, I'm gonna take a plunge:
Samu also won the team's last ever victory? (Question 6)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Did anyone see him do it?

There's a recap of the last 3 stages available on Youtube which includes an interview with him after winning the time trial ahead of his later boss, Igor González de Galdeano. The footage also confirms that EITB's Fermin Aramendi had hair 25 years ago.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N1j2IOFVww

Okay, I'm gonna take a plunge:
Samu also won the team's last ever victory? (Question 6)

No, it wasn't him. I can reveal that the latest edition of the race in question took place quite recently.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I suspect Samu might be #4 because of debate between the team brass over signing him as a non-Basque.

I think #6 may well be a non-Basque but not Samu, because I think it's to do with the 2013 roster. I don't know if one of the randoms like Tamouridis might have won a national jersey, but otherwise I think it's probably Juanjo Lobato in one of those top 10s of little known durable sprinters in small Iberian stage races.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Samu is not the answer to question 4 either. Madariaga's dislike for the rider did have something to do with his cycling background, but he is Basque.

Lobato is correct. His victory in the 2013 Circuito de Getxo was the last for the team, but Tamouridis came close with his Greek double that year.

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay, I cheated a little regarding Q4...
Iñigo Landaluze?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Landaluze is not the rider I have in mind, but it is very much possible that Madariaga was punishing him as well, since he too had what Mandariaga deemed a "forbidden" past.

 

[RedheadDane]

Landaluze is not the rider I have in mind, but it is very much possible that Madariaga was punishing him as well, since he too had what Mandariaga deemed a "forbidden" past.

Oh, as far as I could tell, he was the only one on the 2001 P-R lineup for the team who had only joined the team for 2001.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Oh, as far as I could tell, he was the only one on the 2001 P-R lineup for the team who had only joined the team for 2001.

I can see how the wording could have make you think that this guy had just joined the team that season, but that wasn't the case.