Record for keeping full field longest in GT??

specialgueststar
specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
edited July 2016 in Pro race
What is the record for number of days before a retirement in any of the Grand Tours?

Last year 4 riders were lost on stage 3 - the Bonnett crash

Year before saw 2 out - the Cavendish crash

Year before 2 out again on stage 3

so far full field in 2016 - who will be the first??

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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    so far full field in 2016 - who will be the first??

    Cavendish, before the race heads into the mountains. :D
  • effillo
    effillo Posts: 257
    You do know there are 2 other GT's a year right....?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,760
    Looks like today's the day for one of the injured riders. If you're getting dropped after 10km, it doesn't look promising.

    Apparently 2005 was the last TdF when it got to stage 5 with a full field.
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    effillo wrote:
    You do know there are 2 other GT's a year right....?

    what do you mean?
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    effillo wrote:
    You do know there are 2 other GT's a year right....?

    ToC doesn't count...
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,810
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Looks like today's the day for one of the injured riders. If you're getting dropped after 10km, it doesn't look promising.

    Apparently 2005 was the last TdF when it got to stage 5 with a full field.

    So Armstrong was good for something then?
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    stage 5 finished and the full 198
    fair play to Morkov and Bennett
  • mechanism
    mechanism Posts: 891
    @irishpeloton agrees

    98sfnkL.jpg

    Maybe the riders should be given a bonus to encourage safer riding.
  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    From the Race Centre coverage:
    198 RIDERS AT THE START
    There are still 198 riders in contention, just like at Mont-Saint-Michel for stage 1. Back in 2000, the first rider to pull out of the Tour de France was Rafael Mateos (Polti) during stage 6. 177 riders started the race at Futuroscope after three of the 180 riders entered were sidelined before the start due to a too high haematocrit level: Sergeï Ivanov (Farm Frites), Andrej Hauptman (Vini Caldirola) and Rossano Brasi (Polti). This was the last time the entire peloton started stage 6.
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,716
    It wont be long !

    But what an effort so far.

    I think that easy day might have helped.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,655
    Today.

    Jurgen Smitt. Broken arm.
    _
  • mechanism
    mechanism Posts: 891
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Jurgen Smitt. Broken arm.

    I have to ask.... who's that?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,655
    I think the Belgian I was following was talking sh!t, and thus so was I.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Mechanism wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Jurgen Smitt. Broken arm.

    I have to ask.... who's that?
    A search of Twitter reveals he's one of the TV crew at Sporza, not a rider.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    mrfpb wrote:
    From the Race Centre coverage:
    1were sidelined before the start due to a too high haematocrit level: Sergeï Ivanov (Farm Frites), Andrej Hauptman (Vini Caldirola) and Rossano Brasi (Polti).

    oh those heady days....
  • wiznaeme
    wiznaeme Posts: 238
    Still a full field today. Longest ever in TDF according to Eurosport.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,810
    Surely it has to be a record for the number of riders still on the same time? 11 riders 6'42" back
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,655
    Poor henri desgrange.

    Could generate enough electricity for a small house with the amount of grace spinning going on.
    _
  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    So one withdrawal during stage 8 (at the end of the day). A new record for the TdF to have seven stages with no withdrawals. Does anyone have numbers for the other GTs?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,655
    Contador also really suffering. Can see it in his pedalling style - missing a lot of power in his left leg.

    Boogard is of the opinion the guy is in massive pain and that even what he's doing now is hugely impressive.
    _

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