Giro d'Italia 2025 spoilers

[Dogtrousers]

This has buggered up @ColinJ's mnemonic for telling the Yates brothers apart.

Simon won in Spain (... er ... and Italy)

 

[No Ta Doctor]

This has buggered up @ColinJ's mnemonic for telling the Yates brothers apart.

Simon won in Spain (... er ... and Italy)

Come on, it's easy. United Adam Yates, Simon Lease-a-bike

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

I don't follow pro racing that closely, but a surprise to read on BBC that Simon is only the second British rider to win multiple Grand Tours.

 

[Pinno718]

Like not marking the world's best midfield player!

Why didn't UAE see the danger if him being up the road, such an engine was a gift for Yates!

Perhaps De toro doesn't have either the racing nouse or the pog esq desire to win no way would pog allow that to happen. He'll win a stage even if the gentlemanly thing to do is to gift it to another stage hunting rider....

He's only 21. We can question his endurance over 3 weeks (currently) and we can question UAE tactics. The former will develop and the latter isn't his fault.

 

[Pblakeney]

I don't follow pro racing that closely, but a surprise to read on BBC that Simon is only the second British rider to win multiple Grand Tours.

It's not that long ago that there were zero British GT winners.
Chris Froome being the first with the 2011 Vuelta.

 

[Dogtrousers]

It's not that long ago that there were zero British GT winners.
Chris Froome being the first with the 2011 Vuelta.

... which he didn't win until 2019.

 

[knedlicky]

He's only 21. We can question his endurance over 3 weeks (currently) and we can question UAE tactics. The former will develop and the latter isn't his fault.

Only if you believe the riders are just robotics, you can question the tactics and claim what happened wasn't his fault.

 

[Alex321]

I don't follow pro racing that closely, but a surprise to read on BBC that Simon is only the second British rider to win multiple Grand Tours.

By "multiple", they mean different tours. So two (or more) wins in the TDF without any in others is not "multiple Grand Tour winner".

 

[phreak]

It's not that long ago that there were zero British GT winners.
Chris Froome being the first with the 2011 Vuelta.

Also the first British GT winner for 5 years, which in recent history is a lot, but obviously not long at all in the overall history of British GT racing.

 

[T4tomo]

By "multiple", they mean different tours. So two (or more) wins in the TDF without any in others is not "multiple Grand Tour winner".

So who else other than Froome and Simon Yates has won more than one GT, be it the same one or a different one?

Tao, G and Brad have a sole GT win

 

[mrushton]

No one. Its only since 2012 were we in the game of GT wins. Froome/Sky were the dream combo. Yates went to 2018 Vuelta with something to prove and was the strongest rider there. Since 2020(?) its been Roglic/Jonas and Pog

 

[Dogtrousers]

Just for the record, I'm not going to forgive del Toro for nicking Bardet's Giro stage win. Sorry Isaac, but your name will also go on the list.

 

[Legs]

By "multiple", they mean different tours. So two (or more) wins in the TDF without any in others is not "multiple Grand Tour winner".

But Froome is the only British rider to have achieved the latter (multiple wins in the same GT) anyway, so your point is fairly moot.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Just for the record, I'm not going to forgive del Toro for nicking Bardet's Giro stage win. Sorry Isaac, but your name will also go on the list.

Same. That win would have lifted me from 9th overall to, err.... 9th overall in the Velogames league.

 

[BrumJim]

But Froome is the only British rider to have achieved the latter (multiple wins in the same GT) anyway, so your point is fairly moot.

So Simon Yates is the only British rider to have won GTs in more than one country?