Ignored?

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Who was the best performing rider in history that never seemed to get the
recognition his/her results would have merited?
--
le Vent a Dos, Davey Crockett
Six Day Site: http://sixday.741.com/

 

[Kenny]

[email protected] wrote in message news:<87zn43hdfj.fsf@cpe00024481c080-cm0f2069983361.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com>...
> Who was the best performing rider in history that never seemed to get the
> recognition his/her results would have merited?

Italo Zilioli

 

[Sierraman]

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:87zn43hdfj.fsf@cpe00024481c080-cm0f2069983361.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com...
> Who was the best performing rider in history that never seemed to get the
> recognition his/her results would have merited?
> --
> le Vent a Dos, Davey Crockett
> Six Day Site: http://sixday.741.com/

For the women, Luperini.

 

[Kenny]

[email protected] (Kenny) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> [email protected] wrote in message news:<87zn43hdfj.fsf@cpe00024481c080-cm0f2069983361.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com>...
> > Who was the best performing rider in history that never seemed to get the
> > recognition his/her results would have merited?
>
> Italo Zilioli

I never heard from him since a few weeks ago.

2x 2nd Giro Di Lazio
2x 2nd, 1x 3rd Milan-Turin
1st, 2x 2nd Giro Dell Emilia
1st, 2nd Giro Di Piemonte
3x 2nd, 1x 3rd, 1x 5th Giro d'Italia
3rd Paris-Nice
3rd Tour de Suisse
1st Meisterschaft von zurich
1st, 2x 2nd Tirreno-Adriatico
5th Worlds '64

 

[Kenny]

[email protected] wrote in message news:<87zn43hdfj.fsf@cpe00024481c080-cm0f2069983361.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com>...
> Who was the best performing rider in history that never seemed to get the
> recognition his/her results would have merited?

And defenitely Fred De Bruyne


2x Paris-Nice
3x Liege-Bastogne-Liege
1x Flanders
1x 1st, 1x 2nd Milan-Sanremo
1x 1st, 1x 2nd Paris-Roubaix
1x 1st, 2x 2nd Paris-Tours
2nd Lombardy
2nd Omloop Het Volk
3rd Gent-Wevelgem
5th Worlds ('56 & '57)
3x Trophee Desgrange-Colombo ('56, '57, '58)

 

[Van Hoorebeeck Bart]

From older guys' comments it's obvious Fred was the best cycling TV commentator ever:
very goodtalk, vast experience himself, able to interview any cyclist in his own language (they didn't come from that many
countries yet)

 

[B. Lafferty]

You can see him numerous times on the WCP video History of the Tour of
Flanders. He had quite a personality. He also rode with Coppi on
Coppi-Carpano. There's a nice photo of Fred, Coppi and Faustino and a
little kid.


"Van Hoorebeeck Bart" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
> From older guys' comments it's obvious Fred was the best cycling TV
> commentator ever:
> very goodtalk, vast experience himself, able to interview any cyclist in
> his own language (they didn't come from that many
> countries yet)
>

 

[Davide Tosi]

[email protected] wrote:

>Who was the best performing rider in history that never seemed to get the
>recognition his/her results would have merited?

Maybe not exactly ignored, but Gaetano Belloni was surely the most
underrated. They called him "the eternal runner-up" but in fact he won a
shitload of races, including one Giro's final classment.