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04-20-05 | 05:38 PM
#351
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Originally Posted by climbo
rules, rules, who needs 'em !! Clark didn't win in 82. Not the guy I'm thinking of but I have broken the golden rule and crossed over too many disciplines here, it's MTB. If Clark did that, then Lotek can have it. Is Derby a World Champs event?
Oh wait, I have to think of a question. . . . doh.
back in a few. . .
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04-20-05 | 05:51 PM
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Ok, Easy one.
1980 La Doyenne was notable for one thing.
what was it? and who won?
Marty
1980 La Doyenne was notable for one thing.
what was it? and who won?
Marty
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04-20-05 | 06:02 PM
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Right you are. you're turn and I'm outta here till the wee hours for
you blokes.
(see, there was method to my madness. . . )
Still admire the badger for that one, and similiarly Hampsten for the
Gavia pass.
Marty
you blokes.
(see, there was method to my madness. . . )
Still admire the badger for that one, and similiarly Hampsten for the
Gavia pass.
Marty
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04-20-05 | 06:27 PM
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OK....question. Another easy one.....
Stage 1 of the 1992 Tour de France went over a very famous climb that also features in a Classic. Sprinters weren't happy.
Name the climb.
Stage 1 of the 1992 Tour de France went over a very famous climb that also features in a Classic. Sprinters weren't happy.
Name the climb.
04-20-05 | 06:34 PM
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Spot on....record time.
Gun cyclcocrosser Dominque Arnould held off the charging field in the final 2000m for a great win.
(note to self: make questions harder....
)
Gun cyclcocrosser Dominque Arnould held off the charging field in the final 2000m for a great win.
(note to self: make questions harder....
)
04-20-05 | 09:16 PM
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Rik Van Looy
Paris-Roubaix
Milan-San Remo
Tour of Flanders
Liege-Bastogne-Liege
Tour of Lombardy
Paris-Brussels
Gent-Wevelgem
Fleche Wallone
Paris-Tours
Fleche Wallone was the last piece of the puzzle for Van Looy. He won it in 1968.
Paris-Roubaix
Milan-San Remo
Tour of Flanders
Liege-Bastogne-Liege
Tour of Lombardy
Paris-Brussels
Gent-Wevelgem
Fleche Wallone
Paris-Tours
Fleche Wallone was the last piece of the puzzle for Van Looy. He won it in 1968.
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04-21-05 | 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted by ed073
Leiden is nice. I lived in Hilversum.
Yeah, Leiden is okay. Only downside is that there are only 'polders' around here, no vertical cycling whatsoever. Hilversum is much closer to our 'hills' (Utrechtse Heuvelrug and thereabout).
04-21-05 | 06:45 AM
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The moustache reminds me of Maurice Garin, the first ever Tour de France winner. His nickname was Le petit ramoneur ('chimney sweep'), because that's what he did for a living.
04-21-05 | 07:13 AM
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The photo is definitely Garin. But was winning the first tour an important event? The lads in the first tour were probably out for a bit of a lark on a new long distance event! The Tour de France started as nothing more than a publicity stunt to sell some newspapers after all...
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04-21-05 | 03:25 PM
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uhm the Italian Secretary of Communist party was shot, and a call was
made to Gino Bartali (from another politico?) asking him to win the next
stage to calm the country. Bartali said he would do better than that he
would win the Tour, He did.
made to Gino Bartali (from another politico?) asking him to win the next
stage to calm the country. Bartali said he would do better than that he
would win the Tour, He did.
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04-22-05 | 12:14 AM
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Good morning, everbody!
lotek, you got it. 
The Italian Prime Minister De Gasperi called 'Il Vecchio', back in Le Tour after a ten-year (!) break, when riots had broken out following the assassination of Communist Party leader Togliatti. My version says the PM phoned asked Gino whether he could win the Tour, to calm the country indeed. Bartali did win that Tour, starting with the next day's--heroic--stage, Cannes-Briancon (274 km, a lot of climbing).
Originally Posted by lotek
uhm the Italian Secretary of Communist party was shot, and a call was
made to Gino Bartali (from another politico?) asking him to win the next
stage to calm the country. Bartali said he would do better than that he
would win the Tour, He did.
made to Gino Bartali (from another politico?) asking him to win the next
stage to calm the country. Bartali said he would do better than that he
would win the Tour, He did.
The Italian Prime Minister De Gasperi called 'Il Vecchio', back in Le Tour after a ten-year (!) break, when riots had broken out following the assassination of Communist Party leader Togliatti. My version says the PM phoned asked Gino whether he could win the Tour, to calm the country indeed. Bartali did win that Tour, starting with the next day's--heroic--stage, Cannes-Briancon (274 km, a lot of climbing).
04-22-05 | 05:59 AM
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Bruco,
I had always thought that the PM asked if he could win the next
day's stage, to interst the Italian public and turn them away
from the rioting, and Coppi stated "I'll do better, I'll win the tour" or
something like that.
Oh well.
Next question:
In the Tour the "Circle of the dead Men" refers to what?
Marty
I had always thought that the PM asked if he could win the next
day's stage, to interst the Italian public and turn them away
from the rioting, and Coppi stated "I'll do better, I'll win the tour" or
something like that.
Oh well.
Next question:
In the Tour the "Circle of the dead Men" refers to what?
Marty
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04-22-05 | 01:04 PM
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Circle of Dead Men, or Circle of Death refers to any tour stage that passes through the dreaded climbs of the Col d'Aubisque and the Col du Tourmalet in the Pyrenees.
The first inclusion of these climbs in 1910 was criticised by the French Press who dubbed it the Circle of Death/Circle of Dead Men.
The first inclusion of these climbs in 1910 was criticised by the French Press who dubbed it the Circle of Death/Circle of Dead Men.
