of the modern era
No subjective weighting of different races according to prestige, just a pure and simple record of who's won the most. Who really is the greatest winner of modern times Everyone knows the answer to this question Who has won the most bike races of all time It was Eddy Merckx. The Cannibal. Eddy the Insatiable. In his pomp he won 40,50 races a season. He dominated Grand Tours and Classics and everything in between. Merckx was the most complete rider of them all, a figure who loomed over the late...
Theyre just too nice
It wasn't just for the creative imagery that we liked Andy Schleck saying my stomach is full of anger at the Tour, immediately after Chaingate. At last, we were going to see a fight. We like fights. Then Alberto Contador and Schleck kissed and made up, and Schleck even earnestly looked at the TV cameras and begged the fans to stop being nasty to Alberto and refrain from booing him at presentations. He even threw his insubstantial weight behind Contador's implausible explanations for the...