As the pink confetti rained down on 2015 Giro d'Italia winner Alberto Contador in Milan on Sunday evening, the questions over his Giro-Tour 'double' were already beginning to accumulate.
But in the very unlikely event that Contador was to step away from racing on Monday and spend July on a beach rather than on his bike, where would winning the Giro d'Italia this May now place the 32-year-old in the history books?
After all his retirement will likely be in less than 18 months, and Contador rarely talks about 'legacy', saying that he is tackling the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France as something for his fans and for pure sporting interest.
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"Obviously one thing never changes for me: whenever I go to a race, I like fighting to win it," he told sister publication ProCycling earlier this season. "But I don't think about my legacy, that's not what spurs me on. Rather, I'm doing this double firstly because I like it when people enjoy the racing I do. I want to do everything in my power to make a race interesting.
"Partly I feel, too, that no matter how difficult the Tour de France is, another Tour de France, won by itself, wouldn't add much to my palmares. But winning the Giro and Tour in the same year would put things on another level."
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