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[Tumbleweed]

you can most probably get this anywhere, but isn't is sad that there are two entries with asterisks next to them?

 

2007 Alberto Contador (Spain)
2006 Oscar Pereiro (Spain) **
2005 Lance Armstrong (U.S.)
2004 Armstrong
2003 Armstrong
2002 Armstrong
2001 Armstrong
2000 Armstrong
1999 Armstrong
1998 Marco Pantani (Italy)
1997 Jan Ullrich (Germany)
1996 No winner *
1995 Miguel Indurain (Spain)
1994 Indurain
1993 Indurain
1992 Indurain
1991 Indurain
1990 Greg LeMond (U.S.)
1989 LeMond
1988 Pedro Delgado (Spain)
1987 Stephen Roche (Ireland)
1986 LeMond
1985 Bernard Hinault (France)
1984 Laurent Fignon (France)
1983 Fignon
1982 Hinault
1981 Hinault
1980 Joop Zoetemelk (Netherlands)
1979 Hinault
1978 Hinault
1977 Bernard Thevenet (France)
1976 Lucien Van Impe (Belgium)
1977 Thevenet
1974 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
1973 Luis Ocana (Spain)
1972 Merckx
1971 Merckx
1970 Merckx
1969 Merckx
1968 Jan Janssen (Netherlands)
1967 Roger Pingeon (France)
1966 Lucien Aimar (France)
1965 Felice Gimondi (Italy)
1964 Jacques Anquetil (France)
1963 Anquetil
1962 Anquetil
1961 Anquetil
1960 Gastone Nencini (Italy)
1959 Federico Bahamontes (Spain)
1958 Charly Gaul (Luxembourg)
1957 Anquetil
1956 Roger Walkowiak (France)
1955 Louison Bobet (France)
1954 Bobet
1953 Bobet
1952 Fausto Coppi (Italy)
1951 Hugo Koblet (Switzerland)
1950 Ferdi Kubler (Switzerland)
1949 Coppi
1948 Gino Bartali (Italy)
1947 Jean Robic (France)
1939 Sylvere Maes (Belgium)
1938 Bartali
1937 Roger Lapebie (France)
1936 Sylvere Maes (Belgium)
1935 Romain Maes (Belgium)
1934 Antonin Magne (France)
1933 Georges Speicher (France)
1932 Andre Leducq (France)
1931 Magne
1930 Leducq
1929 Maurice De Waele (Belgium)
1928 Nicolas Frantz (Luxembourg)
1927 Frantz
1926 Lucien Buysse (Belgium)
1925 Ottavio Bottecchia (Italy)
1924 Bottecchia
1923 Henri Pelissier (France)
1922 Firmin Lambot (Belgium)
1921 Leon Scieur (Belgium)
1920 Philippe Thys (Belgium)
1919 Lambot
1914 Thys
1913 Thys
1912 Odile Defraye (Belgium)
1911 Gustave Garrigou (France)
1910 Octave Lapize (France)
1909 Francois Faber (Luxembourg)
1908 Lucien Petit-Breton (France)
1907 Petit-Breton
1906 Rene Pottier (France)
1905 Louis Trousselier (France)
1904 Henri Cornet (France)
1903 Maurice Garin (France)

holy roller2008-07-01 22:28:02

[Sean Badenhorst]

From what's been made known by riders themselves in the past couple of years, I reckon the asterisk key should be worn out at the end of typing the list of previous Tour winners. Obviously the French winners wouldn't get an asterisk suffix though...

[Tumbleweed]

so cynical, sean, haven't had a cuppa java yet? 

[Sean Badenhorst]

About to drink my second... must make it stronger! Nah, the cynical comment is justified in this instance I reckon, HR. I really am a natural optimist. I'm trying to believe the 2008 peloton is mostly clean. Apparently the average power of the top riders on popular climbs has dropped by 10-15 watts this year. And 10-15 watts advantage over a 15km-plus climb is all it takes to make a difference to a race result...

[Tumbleweed]

haha, am on my third. i'm kinda the same as you: eternal optimist. follow the link to the prudhomme story. nice quotes there about this one potentially being a classic.

[Tumbleweed]

"These five months will be either amplified or wiped out. The Tour is like the lighthouse of cycling, whether you like it or not," (Prudhomme) added.
"When the Tour has light, it benefits the whole world of cycling. When it's out of light, everybody is in the dark."

[wolverine]

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About to drink my second... must make it stronger! Nah, the cynical comment is justified in this instance I reckon, HR. I really am a natural optimist. I'm trying to believe the 2008 peloton is mostly clean. Apparently the average power of the top riders on popular climbs has dropped by 10-15 watts this year. And 10-15 watts advantage over a 15km-plus climb is all it takes to make a difference to a race result...

 

According to the English version of 'LA confidential' some of those top riders watt output is at insane levels, will a 15 watt reduction really make it more credible?

[porky]

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About to drink my second... must make it stronger! Nah, the cynical comment is justified in this instance I reckon, HR. I really am a natural optimist. I'm trying to believe the 2008 peloton is mostly clean. Apparently the average power of the top riders on popular climbs has dropped by 10-15 watts this year. And 10-15 watts advantage over a 15km-plus climb is all it takes to make a difference to a race result...

 

According to the English version of 'LA confidential' some of those top riders watt output is at insane levels, will a 15 watt reduction really make it more credible?

 

Where did you find the "engleeesh" version Wolfie??

 

I sort of read a few "on-line" pages which some guy translated from French, but I thought it was still only available in French in the written format.??