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Who said anything about better?
This is a simple case of someone getting more Tour stage wins than someone else. That's fact.
Also fact is that one of these riders was busted for drug use 3x and one of these riders has no such doping history.
One of these riders should be at the top of the list. One of them should be removed.
hippy
The thing is, most of those quotes from Merckx miss off the following paragraph, which takes away some of the saltiness:-
“Naturally I’m not trying to play down what he’s achieved. Also because he’s been through a difficult time and has fallen in love with cycling again. That’s a great message for young people in the sport.”
The problem is he (and the media) are using a single metric (stage wins) to try and show how good he was, and Cav has equalled that and will hopefully surpass it.
Of course Cav doesn't have as many yellow jerseys, days in yellow, km in the lead, mountain stages, etc, but that's not the single metric that they're looking at.
Trying to qualify "better" based on a single (or a few) simple metrics is completely and utterly pointless, and entirely subjective.