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Johan Bruyneel (1964) Belgium
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No significant victories

2 TDF stages + wore the yellow jersey
Rund um den henninger turm
GP des nations (World Cup)
3rd in the Vuelta + 1 stage
3 top-10's in GT's

(Kenny) said:

Quoted message said:

Johan Bruyneel (1964) Belgium
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No significant victories

3rd in the Vuelta

Sorry I missed that. The rest don't meet my criteria:

WOMEN
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Data on Women is difficult to acquire with any degree of consistency or
comparability. Ergo no palmares are usually included.

To rate a ``Buon Compleanno'' from Davey, Women must be in the top 100 UCI
ranked riders.

If Davey has some additional data to hand it may be included parenthetically.

MEN
===

The criteria for acknowledgement in the ``Happy Birthday'' list is a showing,
but not necessarily a win, in:

A Grand Tour
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Italy
France
Spain

Other Races
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World Championship Road Race 1927
Olympic Road Race 1996

CLASSICS
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The Five Old Men
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La Pascale (Paris-Roubaix ) 1896
La Primavera (Milano-Sanremo) 1907
Ronde (Ronde van Vlaanderen) 1913
La Doyenne (Luik-Bastenaken-Luik) 1892
Folgi Morti (Giro di Lombardi) 1905

Other Major Classics
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Paris-Tours 1896
Championship Of Zurich 1914
Amstel Gold Race 1966
San Sebastian Classic 1981
Hew Cyclassics 1996
Gent-Wevelgem 1934
Fleche Wallone 1936
Het Volk 1945

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(Kenny) said:

Quoted message said:

Johan Bruyneel (1964) Belgium
====================
No significant victories

3rd in the Vuelta

Sorry I missed that. The rest don't meet my criteria:

2nd into Liege behind Miguel Indurain ;-)

On 08/24/2004 01:17 AM, in article [email hidden],

Stewart Fleming said:

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(Kenny) said:

> Johan Bruyneel (1964) Belgium
> ====================
> No significant victories

3rd in the Vuelta

Sorry I missed that. The rest don't meet my criteria:

2nd into Liege behind Miguel Indurain ;-)

Nope ... Bruyneel won that stage, and Big Mig was right chuffed about it,
too ...

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The Five Old Men
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La Pascale (Paris-Roubaix ) 1896

La Pascale? That's the first time i hear this expression. Where does it come from?

Kenny

(Kenny) said:

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The Five Old Men
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La Pascale (Paris-Roubaix ) 1896

La Pascale? That's the first time i hear this expression. Where does it come from?

Well you can forget Blaise Pascal and his Triangle and Mathematicaal
Probability and all that stuff.

Nor does it, in Bike-Speak, refer, except obliquely, to that unit of Pressure
equal to a Newton or so per m^3.

And it doesn't have anything to do with Wirth and his language for the CDC
'puter either.

It is in fact descended from an ancient pre-historic pagan festival practiced
by wandering semitic shepherds. There was another festival celebrating the
start of the Barley harvest, The Feast of Unleavened Bread, practiced by
ancient Canaanites. These happened around the same time each year, sometime
around the Vernal Equinox, and as time progressed and inflation hit the
ancients, they merged the two festivals into one to save a few shekels.

Then the Jewish God Mongers got ahold of the festival and associated it with the
Fable of their Exodus from Egypt and the angel of death who ''passed over''
houses marked with sacrificial blood when he went on his mass-murder rampage.

When christianity was invented, the promoters figured they wouldn't attract
too many punterz without a few festivals to keep them happy so they conjured
up Christmas to match the jewish Chanukah and Easter to match the Passover.

Now the anglophile followers of the christian brand of witchcraft wanted their
own name for the borrowed Vernal Equinox festival and called it Easter after
the old Saxon mother goddess Eostre whose festival was celebrated around
Eastre, the ancient word for Spring. All pagan mythologies have similar
goddesses. Demeter in Mycenae and Aphrodite in Cyprus spring to mind but there
are numerous others.

But the latin peoples of Europe just adopted the jewish word for Passover,
turning it into Pascua in Italian, Paque in French and Ostern in German 'cause
the Germans can't seem to get their tongue around some anglo words. The town
of Koblenz is another example. It really should be called Confluence 'cause
it's where the Rhine and the Moselle join forces.

Now there is a Grand old Cycling Classic bike race, Paris-Roubaix which is
always run on the second Sunday in April. And since this reasonably closely
coinsides with Easter, it is referrered to as ''La Pascale''

That good enuf for ya?

Davey accepts Pay-Pal for private lessons too by the way 🙂

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That good enuf for ya?

Great. Never heard it called La Pascale before, either. So how
well-known is this nickname..? I think every next punter does know it
as L'Enfer du Nord.

Ewoud Dronkert said:

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That good enuf for ya?

Great. Never heard it called La Pascale before, either. So how
well-known is this nickname..? I think every next punter does know it
as L'Enfer du Nord.

Must just be the circles we travel in.

I'd never heard ``L'Enfer du Nord'' until relatively recently, was always La
Pascale to me

But from the victory tabulation, I guess the Flahuts can call it whatever they
like 🙂

Nombre de victoires
4: Roger De Vlaeminck ; 3: Octave Lapize, Gaston Rebry, Rik Van Looy, Francesco Moser; 2: Maurice Garin, Lucien Lesna, Henri Aucouturier, Charles Crupelandt, Georges Claes, Rik Van Steenbergen, Sean Kelly, Marc Madiot, Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle, Franco Ballerini, Johan Museeuw.

Victoires par nations:
Belgique 48 ; France 31 ; Italie 10 ; Pays-Bas 4 ; Irlande 2 ; Allemagne, Luxembourg, Moldavie, Suisse 1
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On 08/25/2004 04:15 AM, in article
[email hidden], "Ewoud Dronkert"

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

That good enuf for ya?

Great. Never heard it called La Pascale before, either. So how
well-known is this nickname..? I think every next punter does know it
as L'Enfer du Nord.

http://humanite.presse.fr/journal/2004-04-10/2004-04-10-391673
http://www.veloarchive.com/races/races.php?raceID=parisroubaix
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/veloarchive/races/parisroubaix.htm
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/veloarchive/exploits/parisroubaix21.htm

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Quoted message said:

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Quoted message said:

That good enuf for ya?

Great. Never heard it called La Pascale before, either. So how
well-known is this nickname..? I think every next punter does know it
as L'Enfer du Nord.

Must just be the circles we travel in.

I'd never heard ``L'Enfer du Nord'' until relatively recently, was always La
Pascale to me

Really? Strange.

Curious - what men do you have with a June 19 birthday?