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[The devil's own]

If a sun tan and nice red top = panache, élan and flair or a lazy approach to the Tour and Vuelta, never completing.....

Let's face it, the Tour is the place to win sprint stages and all others are 2nd division.

His job was to sprint, who cares whether he finished or not. And lets not forget he won the worlds, milan-san remo and gent wevelgem 3 times.
The place to win for an italian is probably the Giro. On the basis of your point it should be noted that the majority of Coppi's grand tour success came in the Giro, would you say he was second division?
And before anyone says it I'm not comparing Coppi to Cipo, what I am doing is saying the tour isn't the be all and end all of cycling.