Pub Talk - The Perfect Win?

There's always plenty of chat on this board regarding the quality of different wins and whether or not the winner was worthy.
So the question is. What ride do you think epitomises the 'The Perfect Win'?
Or do you believe in the golfer's adage "There are no pictures on a scorecard"?
(Play nice)
So the question is. What ride do you think epitomises the 'The Perfect Win'?
Or do you believe in the golfer's adage "There are no pictures on a scorecard"?
(Play nice)
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Strava - Alex Taylor (sportstest.co.uk)
ABCC Cycling Coach
... but so close to being caught they are classified as the same time as the chasers.
However, the scorecard adage is ultimately very true. Most here will say Merckx was the greatest ever, but I reckon few could describe any of his wins.
Most of us were not born when he was racing so that is not very surprising is it? If he had been racing this decade and doing what he was hen, I am sure we could roll them off.
2. Flying away from a small group on a final mountain ideally further than >10km can be shortened if on the piddley hills we have here in England
3. A well executed sprint is also quite nice to watch.
Contador at the Giro destroying everyone. Never seen such awesome dominance.
*(WADA permitting).
Only started watching again in recent times, didn't watch from about 94 until the last couple of years so missed a lot.
Boonen handing Sky their ar5es must be up there.
Cancellara's win at Roubaix last year was awesome too. The inevitable reeling in of group after group by the favourite and then the sprint in the velodrome. It would be the perfect win if it weren't for the Stybar crash and
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I can remember following the reports of the Epic battle between Merckx and Gimondi with Poulidor leading the rest.
Then I was in the Parc de Princes as the peloton and Anquetil came into the velodrome and the deafening chant of Anquetil still rings in the ears.
My answer to the OP question is :-
To ride away in the mountains with hands on the "Tops" as he sits there with style (or stands) and gains over 20 mins over the next rider, it has to be Fausto Coppi.
We didn't have Television but the photographer Len Thorpe of Finchley would give Film shows from his collection of cycle races and Blue films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3io9Vp1xCo
Just watch and re-live...
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Nah, he was cheating. Using "Tri-Bars" was just beyond the pale. Technology? pah.
Also, Fignon had a saddle boil that made it almost impossible for him to sit for long periods. But the champion he was he did not make an issue of it.
Iljo Keisse, Tour of Turkey 2012 - Stage 7 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ru3vGR8nck&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3ru3vGR8nck
Nicole Cooke, Beijing Olympic Gold 2008 can't find a decent link though!
The team decided that Pascal Lino was a better rider and sent him off to attack the Yellow which he held till this.
Your youtube reminded me of the pleasure I had watching Lino suffer as he lost on the climb to Sestriere. :roll:
Perhaps ironically the last pro race I watched was the Tour. I travelled from Galway to see the start in New Ross, watched it through Carrick On Suir and drove like a maniac to see it into Cork. That was 98 I think. Not sure what happened after that
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One of my favorites, definitely. Wiggo leading Cav onto the Champs for 2012 also, icing on the cake for the team.
The TDF played the away game because the 3 weeks of world football meant No publicity (very little) for the TDF start.
So the TDF came back to France and needed to become the main Media story and so what happened is now known as the Festina affair which took over the Media.
Makes you think, dun it. :roll:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10xUg4SqHpk
At 34.42 mins is where Tchmil attacks with 63 Kms to go in wind and rain.
The selection mucks about as usual and it's Museeuw who goes on the chase to catch his arch enemy and gets to within 8 secs before he blows up and Tchmil wins the race.
Ha, No Gewiss, Telekom or Armstrong (I know they were still Kiddies) but it's nice to watch again.
Even though I was there with 100.000 others in a great atmosphere and just 2 meters from the finish line, that race was bloody awful.
Or Marianne Vos's Olympics race win.
Cav world championship: it was the race that really hooked me on pro-cycling, and will forever hold a special place for me. I was watching it and googling terms that were being said.
De Geht on the Stevelio. Nothing needs said, perfection.
De Ghent. Stelvio.
Strava - Alex Taylor (sportstest.co.uk)
ABCC Cycling Coach
Something like Gianni Bugno's 1990 San Remo win?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p0a6aQf ... ata_player
Compare with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4HkqU1K ... ata_player
Kelly's 1984 Leige.
David Millar's win over Botero in the Vuelta (2001?), though I think he's admitted to being on the gear. From memory that the day that he bridged several gaps between echelons to get to the front and took a bow as he crossed the line.
Cav's stage 18 (Brive-le-Gaillarde) win at the 2012 Tour was a bit special too.