Quantcast
Channel: News
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 4717

Quiz: How much can you remember from the 2018 pro cycling season?

$
0
0
Joe Robinson
13 Dec 2018

We have 12 questions to answer ranging across the entire season

Christmas is around the corner and nothing says festive cheer like a quiz remembering the year just gon,e so here is the Cyclist Pro Cycling Quiz of 2018.

Twelve questions about the men's and women's pro peloton that will have you racking your brains trying to recollect that Latvian rider who caught headlines at Milan-San Remo in March and where Chris Froome began his season back in February.

Hints and tips

If you are struggling, here is a brief reminder of this year's key moments.

The three Grand Tours were dominated by one nation. Great Britain provided the winner to each, Team Sky's Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas shared the spoils with Simon Yates of Mitchelton-Scott.

Yates could have made it two Grand Tours in one season had it not been for a dramatic capitulation on the gravelled slopes of the Colle delle Finestre which opened the door for Froome to complete his three-week race set.

Froome managed this all while the dark cloud of an adverse analytical finding for salbutamol hung over his head until the UCI and World Anti-Doping Agency cleared the rider of any wrongdoing just days before the Tour de France.

A Tour that Froome conceded to superior teammate Thomas after three consecutive victories. The Welshman walked to victory with two stage wins and Parisian mic drop for good measure.

The Monuments started with Vincenzo Nibali's home win at Milan-San Remo, outwitting the world's best sprinters to take yet another major win in his illustrious career.

Quick-Step Floors dominated again with Niki Terpstra and Bob Jungels both escaping to solo wins at the Tour of Flanders and Liege-Bastogne-Liege respectively. 

Peter Sagan literally rode away from the bunch to skirt off to victory at Paris-Roubaix because he can because he is Peter Sagan.

Finally, Thibaut Pinot proved his love affair with Italy to be justified dropping that man Nibali at Il Lombardia for the biggest win of his career so far. Alejandro Valverde finally won a rainbow jersey which pleased a lot of people but also angered just as many.

In the women's peloton, it was another year of orange as the Dutch dominated again. Annemiek van Vlueten won the Giro d'Italia and La Course while Anna Van Der Breggen finally added the rainbow jersey to her palmares as well as yet another Liege-Bastogne-Liege/Fleche Wallonne double.

While you can probably remember all of these major moments from the last 12 months of racing, there is likely to be some smaller stuff that has escaped your memory. 

So take the Cyclist Pro Cycling Quiz of 2018 and see how much you can remember from the past 12 months. Let us know on Facebook and Twitter how you did!


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 4717

Trending Articles