Cycling Awards Show 2023: Best GC rider

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🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen discuss the General Classification riders performances in 2023 and rank their top five.

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:35 - Criteria

00:04:55 - Have the requirements for GC riders evolved?

00:07:40 - Nominees

00:43:51 - Rankings

00:54:25 - 2024 predictions

01:03:30 - Other news & outro

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast. But the second in the awards show the best GC rider award
0:07.9	one of the most important ones of course there's the overall best rider and classics rider but this is
0:13.3	maybe the second most important in the world. Maybe if you just want to win the Tour de France
0:17.4	this is the most important depending on your perspective of cycling. So what criteria then Benji
0:24.4	matter for our GC rider awards what is what is a GC rider. So we don't count anything you did in
0:31.6	a one day race irrelevant. Kind of true but the characteristics you showing a one the race couldn't
0:38.2	matter as in first of all GC success in 2023 matters that's obvious that's one of the biggest
0:45.0	obvious ones here climbing level would you say that's more the average climbing level that we
0:50.5	count already peak climbing level. I think I think it's both I think oh I think peak climbing level
1:00.0	I think when they're on form what can they do because we also have consistency as a metric so
1:04.9	you know maybe someone like I don't know Adam Yates for example Adam Yates cannot go with
1:14.0	Yones and Poggi in any of the two or stages but he never crumbles in any climb this year all
1:21.4	year he's good on every climb so that's consistency but his peak is clearly just built a bit below
1:27.7	Yones and and pergatches so that I think they're separate there's time trial there's your your
1:33.3	sprints important too because in a lot of these races particularly one week GCs honestly like
1:40.8	Ruglech won two of them on his sprint. Yep but I will say consistency I think there's a difference
1:48.5	between being consistent throughout the race versus throughout the year because they have Poggacha
1:54.1	for example a perfect example of being consistent throughout the year he's there in every single GC
2:00.4	he's fighting for but then when it comes to consistency in the race he's have these moments in
2:06.1	the Tour de France for example on called the laws where losing five minutes on a mountain stage
2:10.6	doing two minutes worse than Zimmermann four minutes worse than Adam Yates that's not consistency
2:16.4	throughout the race you know yeah and there's who else is a good example this I'll made
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