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21 Monument top 10s for Mathieu van der Poel 🇳🇱 He now draws level with the most successful Dutchman in this ranking, Hennie Kuiper, and matches his grandfather Raymond Poulidor 🇫🇷. All-time leaders: 44 — Merckx 36 — De Vlaeminck 28 — Moser / Verbeeck #MSR2026

World Champion on the Via Roma? 🌈 Tadej Pogačar has the chance to join a very exclusive club at Milano–San Remo: World Champions who won La Classicissima: 🇮🇹 Saronni (1983) 🇧🇪 Merckx (1975, 1972) 🇮🇹 Gimondi (1974) 🇮🇹 Binda (1931) velostatistics.substack.com/p/preview-mila…

La Primavera meets possibility. • Mathieu van der Poel chasing a 3rd Milan–San Remo • Tadej Pogačar targeting multiple milestones • No former winner at the Volta a Catalunya History accumulates. And resets. New preview on VeloStatistics. 📊🚴‍♂️ velostatistics.substack.com/p/preview-mila…

@jonas_creteur LBL 1909 was wel een amateurkoers. De jongste in de profversie is wel "recent", 1968 Valère Van Sweevelt.

60 jaar geleden won Eddy Merckx zijn eerste grote klassieker: #MilanoSanremo, 19/03/1966 Hij is dan 20 jaar en 275 dagen jong. Wat zeer goed is, komt zeer snel: het is van alle tijden. knack.be/sport/wielrenn…

Olympic champion. Super-domestique. Tour winner at 32. Geraint Thomas took the long road to the top — from the track to the yellow jersey at the Tour de France. One of cycling’s most unlikely champions. New Cycling Pantheon ↓ velostatistics.substack.com/p/cycling-pant…

🇫🇷 Paris–Nice 🇮🇹 Tirreno–Adriatico Two stage races. Two historic breakthroughs. 🇩🇰 Vingegaard joins a very exclusive club 🇲🇽 Del Toro makes Mexican cycling history Plus: Izagirre’s consistency record & Tirreno stage-win legends. Full recap ⬇️ velostatistics.substack.com/p/recap-the-su…

Waiting for the first Monument. • Preview of Milano–Torino, cycling’s oldest race • Jonas Vingegaard nearing a historic Paris–Nice win • Youth battle in Tirreno–Adriatico The road to Milan–San Remo is already full of numbers. 📊🚴 velostatistics.substack.com/p/preview-mila…

Is Mathieu van der Poel already the greatest Dutch cyclist ever? We analysed Dutch riders across 20 of the biggest races in cycling history. Grand Tours. Monuments. World Championships. Major stage races. Classics. The numbers might surprise you. ⬇️ velostatistics.substack.com/p/from-the-vau…

@pedromota33 Did you read the article?🤔

@VeloStatistics No. Joop Zoetemelk ia clear the best Dutch cyclist ever

@ammattipyoraily I have 10. Stage 4 in 2008: 1. Alessandro Petacchi* 2. Oscar Freire 3. Filippo Pozzato

@VeloStatistics Regarding total # of stage wins, do you have 11 or 10 for Freire? Stage 4 of 2008 is unclear to me cos Petacchi's results were stripped afterwards, incl. 1 stage win.

Most editions with at least one stage win at Tirreno–Adriatico 🌊🏁 8 — 🇧🇪 Roger De Vlaeminck 6 — 🇨🇭 Fabian Cancellara · 🇪🇸 Oscar Freire · 🇮🇹 Giuseppe Saronni 5 — 🇮🇹 Filippo Ganna · 🇸🇰 Peter Sagan · 🇩🇪 Erik Zabel · 🇨🇿 Jan Svorada

Eight years as world champion. A career interrupted by war. Marcel Kint — The Black Eagle — ruled the peloton from his 1938 victory in Road World Championships 1938 on the Cauberg. A forgotten giant of cycling history. New Cycling Pantheon ↓ velostatistics.substack.com/p/cycling-pant…

Strade Bianche delivered two historic moments. 🇸🇮 Pogačar — first rider ever with 4 Strade wins 🇫🇷 Seixas — youngest podium ever in a top-level one-day race (19-164) Legacy and youth on the white roads. Full recap ↓ velostatistics.substack.com/p/recap-strade…

Three races. Three records in sight. • Pogačar chasing a historic 4th Strade Bianche • Paris–Nice without its reigning champion • Roglič aiming for a 3rd Tirreno–Adriatico Early March redraws the map of the season. New VeloStatistics preview. 📊🚴‍♂️ open.substack.com/pub/velostatis…

Opening Weekend, rewritten by youth. 🇳🇱 Van der Poel — 6th Dutch Omloop winner & debut victory 🇫🇷 Seixas — youngest ever Ardèche Classic winner 🇬🇧 Brennan — youngest Kuurne winner in history The record books moved. 📊 New recap ↓ velostatistics.substack.com/p/recap-openin…