10 best Aussie cyclists

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Ollie Wigg said:

Yeah Cadel did win a couple of world championships

Cadel won the World Cup series a couple of times, but never won the world championships. Lists at
www.uci.ch.

did someone forget Pat Jonker?? 15th in the TDF is a pretty awesome effort in my book.

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"g" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]... <my top ten>

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This is a list of current riders.

Yes, that's why I didn't do a top10 in the first place! :P This list is more of a personal
favourites than a top 10. Stuart O'Grady is higher because I like him more - simple.

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OK, but McEwen has more stage wins in the Tour than O'Grady and a

bundle

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of stages in the Giro. Also the first Aussie to win any category in

the

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Tour, the Green jersey. He won a phenomenal 20+ races last year. Baden Cooke's palmares are much
smaller than O'Grady's, apart from the Green jersey, he is still beginning. Robbie is easily No.
out of that lot.

He was going to be number 1, but O'Grady was, lets say, in my good books after trying so hard in
the tour and being so "aussie" about it in the interviews.

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Cadel Evans won 2 mtb worlds titles, but its a case of comparing mtb worlds to a road worlds.
Road gets 10 times the money, media coverage and more hotly contested than mtb. So I'd count
anything won on the

road

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to be harder than off road, sorry. Cadel has only done only a handfull of good things on the
road so far.

Obtaining the Maglia Rosa? Have we had anyone else do that? I'm sure you're right, but that's why
I didn't make a top 10 to start with, my knowledge of other people's race results very limited 🙂

hip

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The best thing about this discussion is that people are starting to come up with names that seem
to get lost in history. It's about time someone wrote a book on the great cyclists from all era's
in Australia. (sounds like a good job for Phil Liggett).

They did (sorta). Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oui, Oui, Oui by Rupert Guinness tells the history of
Australian cyclists in the Tour.

cyclingnews.comtour03Open ↗

cheers, Jeff

you forgot me on that list.

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Because there was a thread on rbr about the 10 best yank cyclist, I'm wondering who makes the list
of best Aussies of all time.

My relatively uninformed choices:

1. Phil Anderson
2. Danny Clark
3. Russell Mockridge
4. Hubert Opperman
5. Robbie McEwen
6. Stuart O'Grady
7. Brad McGee
8. Neil Stephens
9. Gary Neiwand
10. Sean Eadie

ciao GK

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"McEwen is the first Aussie to win any category in the Tour, the Green jersey."

Phil Anderson won the white jersey for best young rider.