Oldest guy to make the podium in TDF history?
07-25-09, 07:06 PM
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Without googling. Zootemilk, Poulidor, Bartoli?
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Raymond Poulider was 40 and on the podium.
07-26-09, 12:25 AM
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07-26-09, 06:08 AM
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I'm really not a fan of Contador, at all, but I will give it to him that he can climb re-he-eeeely fast.
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That's what makes Lance placing 3rd more awesome than Contador getting 1st.
07-26-09, 07:30 AM
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Maybe Armstrong and Contador both had great performances and one doesn't diminish the other.
Besides you're not even factually correct: Contador climbed really fast and won the two ITTs.
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07-26-09, 08:20 AM
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And the idea that Contador didn't show courage is bull. I'm so glad you blind Lance faboys will now be disappearing for another year. Adios!
07-26-09, 08:33 AM
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And you must be a loser too, cause you never wore a yellow jersey.
07-26-09, 08:48 AM
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Is the only way you can build Armstrong up is to tear other people down? You are a really sad person.
Maybe Armstrong and Contador both had great performances and one doesn't diminish the other.
Besides you're not even factually correct: Contador climbed really fast and won the two ITTs.
Maybe Armstrong and Contador both had great performances and one doesn't diminish the other.
Besides you're not even factually correct: Contador climbed really fast and won the two ITTs.
07-26-09, 10:53 AM
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07-26-09, 10:54 AM
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07-26-09, 10:58 AM
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Jean Alavoine was 34 placing 2nd in 1922
Gino Bartali was 35 in 1949
Ferdi Kubler was 35 in 1954
Federico Bahamontes 35 in 1963
Joop Zoetemelk 35 in 1982
Raymond Poulidor "the eternal second" has to top both i think
second place three times, and in third place five times
oldest 2nd 38 in 1974
oldest 3rd 40 in 1976
But now Armstrong is tied with the most podium finishes ever in the TDF with 8.
Gino Bartali was 35 in 1949
Ferdi Kubler was 35 in 1954
Federico Bahamontes 35 in 1963
Joop Zoetemelk 35 in 1982
Raymond Poulidor "the eternal second" has to top both i think
second place three times, and in third place five times
oldest 2nd 38 in 1974
oldest 3rd 40 in 1976
But now Armstrong is tied with the most podium finishes ever in the TDF with 8.
07-26-09, 11:48 AM
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Is the only way you can build Armstrong up is to tear other people down? You are a really sad person.
Maybe Armstrong and Contador both had great performances and one doesn't diminish the other.
Besides you're not even factually correct: Contador climbed really fast and won the two ITTs.
Maybe Armstrong and Contador both had great performances and one doesn't diminish the other.
Besides you're not even factually correct: Contador climbed really fast and won the two ITTs.
mea culpa
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07-27-09, 10:06 AM
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You have heard of WW I and WW II haven't you. Quite a few riders were 2 or more years out of cycling, including the top 2 Italian cyclists ever. Both of whom won the TDF after WW II. One of them spent close to if not more than 2 years in a POW camp in North Africa.
