The Grand Tours They miss the success of a home idol. If there is no change in the dynamics and twist in the script of the movie in the last week which starts today on Back to Spainit would be ten years of the race without a Spanish winner. Latest? Alberto Contador in 2014. They aspire to succeed him, this year, Enric Mas, Mikel Landa and Carlos Rodríguezthe best Spaniards positioned in a general classification led by the Australian Ben O’Connor and where the Slovenian is fighting Primoz Roglicseeking his fourth crown on Spanish soil.
The national drought, however, is not limited to the last major event on the calendar, and in Italy they have gone eight years without a local winner. The last to wear pink at the end of the Giro was Vincenzo Nibali in 2016. For the French, the situation is more intense and painful: since 1985year of the fifth Tour of Bernard Hinaultthey don’t listen to La Marseillaise on the podium in Paris.
The last national winner of three Grand Tours
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The Return: Alberto Contador, 2014 (10 years).
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Tour: Bernard Hinault, 1985 (39 years old).
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The Giro: Vincenzo Nibali, 2016 (8 years).
We are talking about eight years without an Italian winner in the Giro, nine so far in the Vuelta and 39! in the Tour de France. A real outrage that also leaves out other interesting data. The Italian race, for example, has the most local winners throughout history: 68 victories in 107 editions (63%). At the Vuelta a España, that percentage drops to 41% (32 victories in 78 editions).
The Large Bouclefor its part, has the worst percentage of victories among national cyclists: 36 victories in 104 editions (34%), and that does not count seven of Lance Armstrongwho were left without a winner after their doping conviction.
In it 21st centuryItaly is the country with the most victories in its own race, with 12 wins in 24 years (50%), just more than the Spanish’s 10 victories in the Vuelta since 2000 (42%). In France, as can be seen, they have not had a prophet in their home since the beginning of the new millennium. During this time, Great Britain He got six victories and Spain accumulated four of the greatest greats.
Source: La Verdad
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