Should one (be allowed to) replace the Cipollini’s?
Marcel Ausloos
Abstract:One examines and discusses proposals on whether riders could be replaced in a team during multi-stage races, and how much a team final time at the end of the race would change (be "adjusted") if only the riders having completed the race are taken into account for ranking teams. A few results of the two main multi-stage races, the men Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia, are used as case studies. The impact of disqualification later on, due to doping, much after the end of such a race, is also examined in the … Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.