Talk:Roger Decock

1951 Tour: impact of Van Est event

The text currently says that Decock was fifth in the general classification when he stopped for Van Est, waited 25 minutes, and that this costed him a high place. However, one can just look up that this is wrong: he was fifteenth in the general classification, and he finished that stage 10 minutes behind Magni. At the time of Van Est's fall, Magni must have been in front of Decock, so if Decock really waited for 25 minutes, he won back 15 minutes, highly unlikely. Moreover, even if he had lost 25 minutes, it would not have had much impact on his final position; he finishd the Tour in 17th place, almost 74 minutes down. If you give hime a time bonus of 25 minutes, he ends 49 minutes down, 11th place. I believe that a more likely scenario is that Decock was 15th in the general classification, waited at most 5 minutes, and at the end of the Tour this had cost him one place in the general classification. Now my problem is that the current (in my opinion wrong) article gives a source (cyclingnews), and this source indeed says that he was in 5th place and lost 25 minutes. It is possible that Roger Decock felt like he waited for 25 minutes (can't blame him), and maybe he was in fifth place in the stage, and this got exaggerated to fifth place in the general classification. Whereas my version of the story is collected from various bits of information, much more difficult to source. So I'll just leave it as a comment here. Maybe I'll find a better source that says what really happened. --EdgeNavidad (Talk · Contribs) 07:28, 9 May 2022 (UTC)