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📊Active riders with most Grand Tours finished & without a single DNF ( #LaVuelta21 in capital letters) : 19 | ZEITS 17 | Amador 16 | MATÉ 15 | ARASHIRO, CARUSO, N.OLIVEIRA 14 | Bakelants, Bodnar

📊Giro/Tour GC position by La Vuelta Top20 finishers since 2001 This year many riders (3 from Top5) who DNF previous GTs found redemption in Spain Trend in last years though is that GC riders go to La Vuelta after a decent Giro/Tour. Switching the race to Aug/Sep made it easier

Fabio Aru ended his career as a GT winner (🇪🇸'15) with no other pro stage race win. May sound odd, but there are officially 5 more riders like him since 2001: Pereiro (🇫🇷'06) Sastre (🇫🇷'08) A.Schleck (🇫🇷 '10) Hesjedal (🇮🇹'12) Geoghegan Hart (🇮🇹'20) - still active 📸 Cor Vos

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It's certainly lucky to live in Alaphilippe's era #Flanders2021

A good moment to remember that Rapha wanted to remove the Worlds from calendar as one of their proposals for "cycling innovation" #Flanders2021

📊André Greipel, the numbers of a huge career: ➡️158 pro wins ➡️22 Grand Tour stage victories ➡️40% of contested sprints won ➡️8 seasons with at least 10 pro wins A farewell to a superb sprinter, and one of the most loved riders of the peloton.

Cycling Statistics 📊 velonews Tomas SW ammattipyöräily Riders with most years in a WT team before turning ProContinental/Continental: 15 | Bodnar, Kreuziger 13 | Greipel, Nieve, Oss 12 | Devolder, Paulinho, J.Sagan, P.Sagan, Terpstra, Vanendert

⛰️📊The 15 hardest Grand Tour stages of 2022 (measured by accumulated CyclingCols index). ➡️Despite featuring some good mountainous stages, maybe a bigger one is missing at Giro & Tour. ➡️After some good years, La Vuelta high mountains for 2022 are quite disappointing.

📊18th season since men Pro Tour/World Tour creation in 2005. Only 3 riders remain having ridden every year as WT riders: Erviti, Gilbert & Nibali. Two superstars (+ Valverde, who lost 1 year due to sanction) and one of best road captains of the peloton. The last men standing.

📊Recently retired, Jempy Drucker rode as ProConti/Conti no less than 10 seasons before becoming World Tour (fact by ammattipyöräily ). However, there are riders with more years at 2nd/3rd tiers before turning WT: 14 | Van Melsen 13 | Vanspeybrouck 12| Maté, Mosquera, Schulze

📊Youngest and oldest riders of men WT/Pro Tour since its creation (2005) ➡️Youngest 2022: Uijtdebroeks (18 years, 307 days) ➡️Oldest 2022: Valverde (41 years, 251 days) ➡️Youngest ever: Brenner in 2021 (18 years, 127 days) ➡️Oldest ever: Voigt in 2014 (42 years, 106 days)

📊With Arnaud De Lie winning Trofeo Palma, there are now 29 men riders having taken a pro win during 21st century while being under 20 years old. However, 19 years & 321 wasn't enough for him to make the Top20 of the rank 👇

📊Oldest men riders getting a pro win during 21st century: 1⃣ Rebellin: 46 years, 64 days 2⃣ Horner: 41 y, 327 d 3⃣ Valverde: 41 y, 279 d 4⃣ Eeckhout: 41 y, 254 d 5⃣ Voigt: 41 y, 241 d Looks like a record that will last for years.

📊Evenepoel has won all the 7 stage pro races where he has taken the leader jersey so far. ➡️If he wins Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana - VCV , will equal Bernal and Pogacar with 8 GC wins without a fail after taking the race lead. ➡️Only Vinokourov is ahead of them this century, with 11 leads + GC wins.

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