- [Dan] So, how many did you get correct?
Coming up are the answers to
GCN's latest rider impersonations.
It was, of course, the Shark of Messina,
winner of all three Grand Tours at least once,
Mister Vincenzo Nibali.
Nibali was thrown off the 2015 World Tour
after being seen holding onto his team car
to get back to the front group
after he was held up behind a crash
and required a change of bikes.
Nibali now rides for Bahrain Merida
and finished third at the Giro
and second at the World Tour this year.
- Ciao! Arrivederci.
- Hey! Hey! Wh--
- Hey!
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- [Dan] There has only been one true showman in cycling.
And that is the Italian, Mario Cipollini.
This flamboyant sprinter already had 125 wins to his name
before he turned pro
and 191 as a pro.
He currently has the record
for the number of Giro stage wins at 42.
And after his career, he was investigated
and found guilty of tax evasion
but was later acquitted after subsequent appeal in 2010.
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You all got this one, didn't you?
Nobody else rides quite like Caleb Ewan.
But admittedly, Si came quite close.
Only at a quarter of the speed.
Still only 23 years old,
Ewan has already won a stage at the World Tour
and the Giro.
And his extreme sprinting position
was recently found to be 24% more aero
and 14% faster than a conventional sprinting position.
- Try to touch your face on the ground.
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- [Dan] This was a slightly harder one
given that our impersonation wasn't that good.
But nevertheless, I'm sure that most of you guessed
that this was Nairo Quintana.
He has won the World Tour and the Giro in the past,
amongst many other races,
but thus far, he's fallen slightly short
at the Tour de France.
Twice coming second and once third.
Could 2018 be his year?
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He was the first rider to win
five consecutive Tour de France.
The gentle giant himself, Miguel Indurain.
Indurain won the Tour from 1991 to 1995,
but in '96, he was beaten by the Dane, Bjarne Riis.
Indurain cracked on stage seven
and was begging spectators for food and drink
and to add insult to injury,
he was later docked 20 seconds by the race jury
for taking a feed in the final few kilometres.
He retired later that same year.
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Shut up legs was the give away on this one.
It could only be Jens Voigt.
Winner of two Tour de France stages,
plus four overall wins at the Critérium International
and a general, all around hard man.
Despite his prowess though,
he was beaten by GCN on a Zwift race.
Although, to be fair,
we ganged up on his, two against one,
and two, he probably wasn't trying very hard.
- I'm beaten, square and fair.
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- [Dan] Who could this one have been,
apart from the great Eddy Merckx of Belgium?
The best cyclist of all time,
with a Palmares that is unlikely to ever be bettered.
Merckx remains the only rider to have won
all five of the one day monuments,
Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix,
Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and the Tour of Lombardi.
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Slightly unfair, this one,
but Alexander Krisoff's helmet does often appear
to be on the slant.
As the pictures you are now seeing clearly show.
What a rider though
and how close was he to winning the Rainbow band
in his home country
at the recent World Championships in Bergen?
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This young French hope has surely got
a Tour de France win in him, over the next few years.
But who is it?
That's right, it's Roman Bardet,
of AG2R or AG2R.
Bardet is known for his attacking style on the climbs
and on the descents,
but his achilles heel as always been his time trialling.
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This man won Paris-Nice, seven years on the trot.
Another record unlikely to be beaten.
It's the great Irish professional cyclist
and now EuroSport commentator, Sean Kelly.
He was loathed to adopt modern technology,
famously shunning clipless pedals for a long time,
but then he was one of the first to ride with a helmet,
which he used on route to win Milan-San Remo in 1992.
Congratulations to all of you who got them correct.
We hope you enjoyed the video
as much as we did making it.
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and if you'd like to see our original impersonations,
you can find those in the bottom right corner,
whilst our race on Zwift with Jens Voigt
is in the left corner.