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Winning a big race in first try?
fosforgasXIII	#21 Posted on 21-05-2013 18:09
Breakaway Specialist Posts: 845 Joined: 28-10-2012 PCM$: 200.00	Except for Cav's MSR and Cunego's GDL I don't think anyone won a monument in first try in the past years. Zdenek Styber came very close this year in Paris-Roubaix if he wouldn't ve fallen. Boonen (3th in first PR) and Freire (3th in first MSR) also came close. And Andy Schleck became second in the 2007 Giro, his first grand tour ever.


lluuiiggii	#22 Posted on 21-05-2013 21:33
Grand Tour Champion Posts: 8425 Joined: 30-07-2010 PCM$: 200.00	Avin Wargunnson wrote: I dont think so, i think GT is much harder to win on a first try, beacuse it takes time before rider is a complete stage racer (with exceptions of likes of Schleck and Contador). When has Schleck become a complete stage racer? Stages \| 2000 DB


Aquarius	#23 Posted on 21-05-2013 21:49
Grand Tour Specialist Posts: 4851 Joined: 29-11-2006 PCM$: 200.00	Since he stopped complaining about cobbles, about wet roads, about flat stages, about descents, about supposedly unfair opponents and about time trials, and instinctively started grabbing opportunity to gain time on weakened opponents. That happened a l... Oh wait. Nevermind.