oldest average aged team ever ? (shack ?)

northernneil
northernneil Posts: 1,549
edited October 2009 in Pro race
lance 38
levi 35
kloeden 34

is this the oldest average aged team ever for its main 'big guns' ?

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  • Echo et les Boniments
    Echo et les Boniments Posts: 142
    Must be, but the 3 of them had a solid 2009 and that's what we should be looking at.

    Looking for other squadre dei grandi vecchi, maybe we could mention Gerolsteiner in 2005:

    Rebellin 34
    Leipheimer 33
    Totschnig 34

    Or Brianzoli in 1986: Moser (35), Thurau (33), Baronchelli (33). Moser gave Baronchelli such a hard time that the latter left for another team mid-season -and still managed to win the Lombardia.

    And then maybe old fogeys round here will remember Gan-Mercier in 1976: team stars were called Poulidor (40), Hoban (36) and Zoetemelk (30). Poulidor actually made the Tour podium (3rd), but those were other times...
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    is that the oldest podium tour finisher ?
  • Echo et les Boniments
    Echo et les Boniments Posts: 142
    Yeah, I think Poulidor must be the oldest podium Tour finisher since 1945. Not so sure about the ancient, heroic times though. Like, did you know the Tour's oldest winner ever is Belgium's Firmin Lambot in 1922? Lambot was almost 37.
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    Echo et les Boniments wrote:
    Yeah, I think Poulidor must be the oldest podium Tour finisher since 1945. Not so sure about the ancient, heroic times though. Like, did you know the Tour's oldest winner ever is Belgium's Firmin Lambot in 1922? Lambot was almost 37.

    Might be Zoetemelk...
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.

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