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24-07.-2005, 02:12 PM
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Tour De Internationale
As mentioned in another post, the Tour has become a truly international affair over the past couple of years. In previous years it was largely dominated by italian, spanish and french riders. A brief look at the top 20 in GC which include:
5 Americans 3 Italians 3 Spaniards 2 Kazakhs 2 Germans 1 Ukrainian 1 Dutch 1 French 1 Austrian Here's how the top 10 would look like 20 years ago: 1. Ivan Basso 2. Francisco Mancebo 3. Oscar Pereiro 4. Christoph Moreau 5. Eddy Mazzoleni 6. Haimar Zubeldia 7. Oscar Sevilla 8. Guiseppe Guerini 9. Carlos Sastre 10. Xabier Zandio Top 10 in green jersey classification: 3 Australians 2 Spaniards 1 Kazakh 1 American 1 German 1 Dutch 1 Norwegian White jersey's top 10 include 2 Kazakhs, a Ukrainian, a Russian, 2 spaniards, french, swede, a german and a belgian. Truly amazing! Compare this to Vuelta or Giro |
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24-07.-2005, 02:28 PM
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Re: Tour De Internationale
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24-07.-2005, 07:17 PM
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Re: Tour De Internationale
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And in the top 20 on the current GC. |
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24-07.-2005, 09:28 PM
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Re: Tour De Internationale
To clarify, did you take the nationalities of the top 10 in the Tour of 1985 and assign the leading finishers from those natnions this year to those slots?
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27-07.-2005, 10:30 AM
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Re: Tour De Internationale
Apology accepted.
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27-07.-2005, 11:28 AM
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Re: Tour De Internationale
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1. Bernard HINAULT (Fra) en 113h24'23" 2. Greg LeMond (Usa) à 1'42" 3. Stephen Roche (Irl) à 4'29" 4. Sean Kelly (Irl) à 6'26" 5. Phil Anderson (Aus) à 7'44" 6. Pedro Delgado (Esp) à 11'53" 7. Luis Herrera (Col) à 12'53" 8. Fabio Parra (Col) à 13'35" 9. Eduardo Chozas (Esp) à 13'56" 10. Steve Bauer (Can) à 14'57" 11. Robert Millar (Gbr) à 15'10" 12. Joop Zoetemelk (Hol) à 15'24" 13. Niki Ruttimann (Sui) à 16'02" 14. Eddy Schepers (Bel) à 16'13" 15. Peter Winnen (Hol) à 17'35" 16. Robert Forest (Fra) à 17'45" 17. Celestino Prieto (Esp) à 19'48" 18. Claude Criquielion (Bel) à 21'12" 19. Alvaro Pino (Esp) à 21'35" 20. Pascal Simon (Fra) à 23'30" As you can see, 6 out of the top 11 were from the Anglophone countries of the USA, Ireland, Australia, Canada and Great Britain (in addition, note the two Colombian riders in 7th and 8th place). I think there was a book written about this era called something like "The Anglo Invasion." So the globalization of the sport and the Tour actually started a fairly long time ago. |
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