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Chris Froome
Chris Froome won the Tour de France four times between 2013 and 2017, anchoring Team Sky's dominant run through cycling's biggest race during a decade when British cycling, historically a minor presence at the Tour, became one of the sport's most powerful forces. Froome's climbing style, an unusually high cadence combined with an aerodynamically unconventional but highly efficient position on the bike, made him one of the most recognizable riders of his generation, and his ability to attack decisively in the mountains while also holding his own in time trials gave him a complete skill set across the race's different stage types. His 2018 Giro d'Italia victory included an 80-kilometer solo attack on the Colle delle Finestre, one of the boldest and most unexpected winning moves in modern grand tour history, turning what looked like a losing position into the overall race lead in a single stage. Froome's career was interrupted by a serious 2019 training crash that left him with life-threatening injuries, and while he never fully returned to his previous form afterward, his four Tour titles across a five-year span place him among the most successful grand tour riders of the 2010s, a decade largely defined by his and Team Sky's methodical dominance.
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Eddy Merckx
Eddy Merckx dominated professional cycling from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s so completely that he earned the nickname "The Cannibal," a reflection of a competitive drive that pushed him to win races and stages even when a wiser tactical approach would have had him conserve energy for bigger goals later in a season. Merckx won the Tour de France five times (1969-1972, 1974) and, in his debut win in 1969, became the first rider in Tour history to win the general classification, points classification, and mountains classification in the same edition — a "triple crown" no other rider has repeated since. His career win total, 525 races across every discipline of professional cycling — stage races, one-day classics, and track events — remains the highest of any professional cyclist in history, a statistic that reflects genuine dominance across the entire sport rather than specialization in a single race type the way most great cyclists' careers are built. Merckx also won all five of cycling's "Monument" classics (Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and Il Lombardia), several of them multiple times, a combination of grand tour and one-day classics dominance that no cyclist before or since has matched, and that's central to why he's still almost universally cited as the greatest cyclist ever to race.
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