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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    andyp wrote:
    Sorensen was in yellow and crashed and broke his collarbone in the team time trial. I think LeMond then refused it but don't remember for certain.

    Wasn't a TTT stage...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QEJpsvJii0
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,451
    Yes, my memory failed me. Sorensen took the jersey after the team time trial.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    It was a good stage though, worth watching again!
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    RichN95 wrote:
    Question 2: What was unique about the podiums in 1979 and 2001? (Obviously it wasn't actually unique as it happened twice)

    Same podium as year before
    2000 & 2001 : Armstrong, Ullrich, Beloki
    1978 & 1979 : Hinault, Zoetemelk, Agostinho
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    andy_wrx wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Question 2: What was unique about the podiums in 1979 and 2001? (Obviously it wasn't actually unique as it happened twice)

    Same podium as year before
    2000 & 2001 : Armstrong, Ullrich, Beloki
    1978 & 1979 : Hinault, Zoetemelk, Agostinho
    Correct.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • mr_poll
    mr_poll Posts: 1,547
    Who is widely accredited (well in a book I read recently) to be the first rider in the TdF to match his accessories (shoes, glasses etc) and bike to the jersey he was wearing - with the support of the bike manufacturer (bonus point to name them too).
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Cipo? And Cannondale...

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  • mr_poll
    mr_poll Posts: 1,547
    Yep
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    He used to get in trouble for that, now they encourage it!

    Thankfully he wasn't a Polka dot jersey type of guy, polka dot shorts are awful!

    cipo-caesar.jpg
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,547
    1991 tour was quite memorable. Even I remember bits. A few interesting bits:
    1. Lemond and a few others (including Kelly) managed to make a breakway in an early stage
    2. The day after Sorensen retired, Thiery Marie won back the yellow jersey with his epic breakway proving that the idea of giving up yellow is not as modern as people think.
    3. I could have remembered this incorrectly, but this cost Kelly the yellow jersey as he won some bonus seconds taking him into second place.
    4. A YoungBean was sad that Kelly didn't get the yellow jersey and was so unfortunate to later suffer from food poisoning. Later, an older, far more cycnical BigBean learnt the real reason.
    The Year Greg Lost the Tour
    BY CHARLES HOWE
    For fans of Greg LeMond, 1991 will forever remain as The Year Greg Lost the Tour.

    All seemed right as the defending champion finisheda strong third in the prologue, just 3 seconds back of specialist Thierry Marie. The next morning, a road race that was the first half of a split stage, he engineered a “magic break” that gained 1:44 on all his rivals except Erik Breukink, and put him in the overall lead. It was, as Phil Liggett declared, vintage LeMond.

    Almost as fortuitously, he slipped the yellow jersey and the responsibility of defending it later the same day in the team time trial, as Team Z conceded 59 seconds to the Ariostea squad This put Rolf Sorenson in yellow, despite the Dane’s crash in the last few hundred meters that saw him trail in, 16 seconds adrift, with handlebars askew. Sorenson took a more serious fall in stage 5, breaking his collarbone, but in keeping with tradition, LeMond refused to wear the yellow jersey the next day, and it was taken over by stage winner Thierry Marie after he spent the last 234 km on his own, the second-longest successful solo breakaway in Tour history (the record being 253 km by Albert Bourlon in the 1947 Tour, which as the entire length of stage 14, from Carcassonne to Luchon.)
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    ^Were you once a young green Bean?
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,547
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    ^Were you once a young green Bean?

    Yes, I went blue with age.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Thankfully he wasn't a Polka dot jersey type of guy, polka dot shorts are awful!

    bettiniphoto_0041163_1_full_600.jpg

    That should result in instant disqualification. Followed by imprisonment.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Pfft, lightweight. He's not even trying! You gotta have matching socks, mitts, wheel stickers...

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    When Rolland had it, I thought he was going to go the whole hog and contract measles.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,548
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Pfft, lightweight. He's not even trying! You gotta have matching socks, mitts, wheel stickers...

    bettiniphoto_0117892_1_full-824x549.jpg

    Bar-tape fail.
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,810
    TheBigBean wrote:
    1991 tour was quite memorable. Even I remember bits. A few interesting bits:
    1. Lemond and a few others (including Kelly) managed to make a breakway in an early stage
    2. The day after Sorensen retired, Thiery Marie won back the yellow jersey with his epic breakway proving that the idea of giving up yellow is not as modern as people think.
    3. I could have remembered this incorrectly, but this cost Kelly the yellow jersey as he won some bonus seconds taking him into second place.
    4. A YoungBean was sad that Kelly didn't get the yellow jersey and was so unfortunate to later suffer from food poisoning. Later, an older, far more cycnical BigBean learnt the real reason.
    The Year Greg Lost the Tour
    BY CHARLES HOWE
    For fans of Greg LeMond, 1991 will forever remain as The Year Greg Lost the Tour.

    All seemed right as the defending champion finisheda strong third in the prologue, just 3 seconds back of specialist Thierry Marie. The next morning, a road race that was the first half of a split stage, he engineered a “magic break” that gained 1:44 on all his rivals except Erik Breukink, and put him in the overall lead. It was, as Phil Liggett declared, vintage LeMond.

    Almost as fortuitously, he slipped the yellow jersey and the responsibility of defending it later the same day in the team time trial, as Team Z conceded 59 seconds to the Ariostea squad This put Rolf Sorenson in yellow, despite the Dane’s crash in the last few hundred meters that saw him trail in, 16 seconds adrift, with handlebars askew. Sorenson took a more serious fall in stage 5, breaking his collarbone, but in keeping with tradition, LeMond refused to wear the yellow jersey the next day, and it was taken over by stage winner Thierry Marie after he spent the last 234 km on his own, the second-longest successful solo breakaway in Tour history (the record being 253 km by Albert Bourlon in the 1947 Tour, which as the entire length of stage 14, from Carcassonne to Luchon.)

    There's something in Kelly's book how he wanted to take Yellow, and would have if he'd have got his team to chase.

    But he knew he wasn't gona win the Tour so didn't want to burn out his team mates before they could support the leader (da Silva?) later in the race
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Pfft, lightweight. He's not even trying! You gotta have matching socks, mitts, wheel stickers...

    bettiniphoto_0117892_1_full-824x549.jpg
    :oops:
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,547
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

    There's something in Kelly's book how he wanted to take Yellow, and would have if he'd have got his team to chase.

    But he knew he wasn't gona win the Tour so didn't want to burn out his team mates before they could support the leader (da Silva?) later in the race

    Thanks.

    You've clearly posed the next question - unless of course the answer is Da Silva in which case it might have limited appeal.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    TheBigBean wrote:
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

    There's something in Kelly's book how he wanted to take Yellow, and would have if he'd have got his team to chase.

    But he knew he wasn't gona win the Tour so didn't want to burn out his team mates before they could support the leader (da Silva?) later in the race

    Thanks.

    You've clearly posed the next question - unless of course the answer is Da Silva in which case it might have limited appeal.
    It think it would have been Breukink or Alcala back then.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Breukink, really, as far as I can remember. He'd been on the podium the year before, the new Dutch hope on a Dutch team. That was going to be the year he was going to win it, first since Zoetemelk, they thought, until 'food poisoning' saga. Alcala was mostly super domestique
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,548
    OK, setting the bar high here for a no-Google answer (I just trawled the team website...)

    How many current Champions jerseys* does MTN-Qhubeka have (including national, continental, world, U23 etc)?


    *not all jerseys may actually come with a jersey, some may just be a title and medal.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,547
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    OK, setting the bar high here for a no-Google answer (I just trawled the team website...)

    How many current Champions jerseys* does MTN-Qhubeka have (including national, continental, world, U23 etc)?


    *not all jerseys may actually come with a jersey, some may just be a title and medal.

    I think I'm out, MTN-Qhubeka - who?
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,548
    TheBigBean wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    OK, setting the bar high here for a no-Google answer (I just trawled the team website...)

    How many current Champions jerseys* does MTN-Qhubeka have (including national, continental, world, U23 etc)?


    *not all jerseys may actually come with a jersey, some may just be a title and medal.

    I think I'm out, MTN-Qhubeka - who?

    South African pro-conti team, get quite a few invites to WT races, won MSR with Ciolek last season.

    Ring any bells yet? ;-)
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Right, I'm guessing
    Tekle - Eritrea
    Reguigiui (sp?) - Algeria
    Meintjes - SA (must have something in an U23 national cat)
    ehhhh.....
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Looking at a rider and nationality list of MTN Qhubeka I have, I'll add:

    Adrien Niyonshuti, surely he's Rwandan national champ?
    Is Konovalovas national champ of anything in Lithuania?
    Tsugabu Grmay something in Ehtiopia?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,548
    Bearing in mind I've only got the info from the team website....

    There are five riders, you're missing one.
    You've got Tekle, Meintjes, Konovalovas and Grmay.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,547
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    OK, setting the bar high here for a no-Google answer (I just trawled the team website...)

    How many current Champions jerseys* does MTN-Qhubeka have (including national, continental, world, U23 etc)?


    *not all jerseys may actually come with a jersey, some may just be a title and medal.

    I think I'm out, MTN-Qhubeka - who?

    South African pro-conti team, get quite a few invites to WT races, won MSR with Ciolek last season.

    Ring any bells yet? ;-)

    Ok, I did watch that, but failed to note Ciolek's team. He did only appear with about 100m to go....

    Have they won anything else of note?
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    TheBigBean wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    OK, setting the bar high here for a no-Google answer (I just trawled the team website...)

    How many current Champions jerseys* does MTN-Qhubeka have (including national, continental, world, U23 etc)?


    *not all jerseys may actually come with a jersey, some may just be a title and medal.

    I think I'm out, MTN-Qhubeka - who?

    South African pro-conti team, get quite a few invites to WT races, won MSR with Ciolek last season.

    Ring any bells yet? ;-)

    Ok, I did watch that, but failed to note Ciolek's team. He did only appear with about 100m to go....

    Have they won anything else of note?


    Apart from races on the Africa and Asia Tours, several stage wins in Europe mainly via Ciolek eg ToB, Tour of Austria
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Bearing in mind I've only got the info from the team website....

    There are five riders, you're missing one.
    You've got Tekle, Meintjes, Konovalovas and Grmay.

    The obvious one is missing - Jay Thomson, South African RR Champ.

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