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| Favorite Renault-Gitane rider for 1983 |
| Bernard Hinault |
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42% |
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| Laurent Fignon |
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28% |
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| Greg LeMond |
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28% |
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 Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:27 am |
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| nicolas |
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OK, it's all in the title...
Beware, I said "favorite", not "best"...you can be as sentimental as you like !
For a reminder, Renault Gitane achievements in 1983 :
-Hinault : Vuelta (2 stages), Flêche Wallonne, Pino Cerami Prize
-Fignon : Tour de France (1 stage), stage win in the vuelta, tirreno adriatico & criterium international
-LeMond : Dauphiné Libéré (3 stages), World Championships, Super Prestige Pernod
You can discuss further...
Of course, we all know who would win the DS title ! |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:17 pm |
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| Paul Wiseman |
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Hinault, Hinault, Hinault!!!
Who are those other two young upstarts anyway?  |
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Wisey
Brisbane, Australia
1974 Paris - Nice
1985 Defi
1985 Victoire
1985 Victoire (yes, another one!)
1985 Professionnel |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:39 am |
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| nicolas |
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I myself voted for Greg.
I think that, for this particuliar season (1983), Greg achieved an awful lot at only 22 : winning the "mini-tour" and wearing the rainbow jersey, with which he came 2nd at the tour of lombardy...to finally win the super-prestige which was the equivalent of the world cup/pro-tour at the time.
Sure, Fignon won his first tour at 23 but the general feeling was that he did it by "elemination", everybody having a failure at one point except him.
Bernard Hinault won the vuelta but 1/It was far from an easy victory and 2/He pushed himself so much that he had to withdraw from the tour de france. |
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