Originally Posted by GV27
Well, of course he may well be forced to choose. If he wants to win the overall, he can't go chase down a suicidal all-day break in search of KoM points. There's a reason why although the overall winner is usually one of (if not THE) best climber in the race but nobody has won both in a LONG time (Eddy Merckx, '70, I think?). Even Pantani didn't win KoM in '98 though he was clearly the best climber and I believe Lance probably could've won several if he'd wanted to. So nobody has to sit him down and ask him - the race is gonna ask him!
Yup it was 70 with Eddy. But under the current scorring scheme Pantani would almost surely have won both in 1998. He was only 25 points back (out of a lot more points) and Pantani was there on all the finishing climbs to cat 1 or HC and Rinero was not there on any. And if I recall correctly he did pull it of in the Giro that year.
IF Rasmussen ends in Yellow I think he has a good chance to have KOM too. But that first part is a big if.