Re: [CR] Best Riders of all time

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From: "KCTOMMY" <KCTOMMY@email.msn.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] Best Riders of all time
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:25:05 -0600

Kind of like the debate about the greatest jazz female vocalist. Someone asked Etta James who she thought was the greatest. She said, "You mean besides Ella Fitzgerald?"

Who's the greatest racer? You mean besides Eddy?

Tom Adams, too cold to ride and bored in Kansas City

-----Original Message----- From: Hilary Stone <Hilary.Stone@Tesco.net> To: stregesmith@qwest.net <stregesmith@qwest.net> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Date: Sunday, March 25, 2001 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [CR] Best Riders of all time

There can't be any debate in this ­ Merckx had 528 wins from just over 1800 starts in his pro career. Can any other rider come close? And most of Merckx's wins came after his very serious near fatal accident on the Blois track! Hilary Stone

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Jerry Moos wrote:


> I guess there could be lots of great moments in the sport of cycling,

> involving not just Major Taylor, but

> Bartali, Coppi, Merckx, Anquetil, Bobet, Beryl Burton and many more.

> Taylor certainly overcame some great

> obstacles, but so did Greg LeMond returning from a near-fatal accident,
and

> Armstrong from an even more

> nearly fatal illness. I think it is a sense of history that makes a sport

> great, and holds fans with

> debates about who was the best. We can endlessly advocate the virtues of

> Taylor vs Coppi vs Merckx just as

> baseball fans can debate whether Cobb or Honus Wagner, or Ruth or Dimaggio

> or Ted Williams or Willie Mays

> was the greatest.