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Properly winding it up now!
Elbows are out... C'mon Cav!
Proper Highroad style train they've got going..! Hopefully they can hang on to the finish.!
Anyone else bitten their nails down to stumps...?
BOOOM!
Easy....
What a man. Just insane. Beyond words...
GET IN!
Massive respect for the team as well. They buried themselves for him...
No-one else had a look in there.. He had that from 500m out.. Colbrelli well down too..
Absolute text book lead out and Cavendish takes his 3rd!
Boom!
masterclass from quickstep!!!!!!!!!!
Well in Cav, dominant stuff from DQS
Great sprint from WvA with no team and trying to just use Cav's wheel though..
everyone else, thanks for coming.
Awesome again by cav and dqs.
YEEEESSSS!!!
This is glorious!
Fantastic from Cav! Huge effort from WvA there too, mighty impressive from a GC contender to be within a wheel length of a win against DQS and Cav...
Yeah, they shut it down right from that right hander. Perfect line through it.
Looks like a lead of about 60 points in Green for Cav now. Maybe my fantasy TdF team will have climbed a few places too. 🙂
The other riders need to grasp, sitting on his wheel is absolutely pointless
I'm out on Thursday for Nîmes and the next flat stage. Equalling the record then?
Edit and breaking it on Friday.
What a team.
I'd love him to win 35th win on Champs Elysees and then just state "told you so, i'm off now.."
So do we start a poll on who will play Cav in the movie.?? 😀
Interesting Cav saying he isn't interested in green jersey really, wants the stages and if green happens then all well and good...saying he only did 14 revolutions of cranks in the wind!
When you’ve a lead-out that good & you’re that strong nobody’s getting near you..
Phenomenal stuff from Mark.
mighty impressive from a GC contender
He's not a GC contender.
I’d love him to win 35th win on Champs Elysees and then just state “told you so, i’m off now..”
Naah. I want a 34th win on the Champs, Merckx to present the green jersey, the two to declare it quits and Merckx bikes to produce a Cavendish model (possibly not a climbing oriented bike).
This is a fairytale. A brilliant fantastic fairytale.
33!!!!!!!
Get in Cav !!!!!!
How many more sprint stages are there to go in theory??
Naah. I want a 34th win on the Champs, Merckx to present the green jersey, the two to declare it quits and Merckx bikes to produce a Cavendish model (possibly not a climbing oriented bike).
This is a fairytale. A brilliant fantastic fairytale.
I don't reckon Specialized would like that, i don't think he'll need to pay for another bike or Oakley shades ever again!
How many more sprint stages are there to go in theory??
4 inc Paris
How many more sprint stages are there to go in theory??
Four
he's up to 22 in the world pcs rankings 1034 places better than last year 😀
Got to be one of the best sporting comebacks, and after having been written off and crying last year that he felt it was his last race, come back and achieve that, plus amazing how well his lead out has worked for him, bearing in mind they would of been training with Sam Bennet for the Tour a fortnight ago and he would of been training with the B Team..
2 consecutive flat stages after Ventoux tomorrow.
Then hills and mountains until the end three - Sprint stage, TT, C-E
While a record on the C-E would be nice, I think Cav as well as anyone knows how easily the road can be whipped out from under you. Get through Ventoux tomorrow (do any of the other sprint teams try to press hard early - at the moment the only way to beat team Cav-DQS seems to be to not have him there in the finale, so try for a time cutoff play) - and then I think he'll take proper aim at the next two.
The Pyrenees will be hard again, harder than Ventoux and the risk of elimination ever present. Or a crash, or even a Covid test.......
And great as this has been, next year's another year again.
Best case scenario, he wins on C-E to make it 37. Greedy? No-one looks like stopping him so far.
What a lead out he had. The commitment from his team is so total and he is great to listen to afterwards. I can imagine that ASO will bend over backwards to make sure he gets through tomorrow
or even a Covid test……
unfortunately social distancing is not in Mark Cavendishs' vocab
I also wonder what effect his green jersey comment would have? Whether deliberate or not, is he inviting the others to fight for GJ points as that's the scraps he's prepared to let them have, just don't think you're getting a look in for stages?
Or to ASO that they can take the points off him if they like, him winning stages as the GOAT is pure box office.
Or to ASO that they can take the points off him if they like, him winning stages as the GOAT is pure box office.
He knows the value of that green jersey to him and to the team. They win that in Paris, Cav is back big time, his salary might get an extra 0 on it too - don't forget he's being paid far less than he commanded at the height of his career.
Rolling in 20 mins outside cut-off won't be an option, the whole team will be supporting him completely throughout the next 11 stages.
Besides, as with the World Champs course the year he won, this year of the Tour is very sprint favourable. I think the green jersey competition will actually be far better than yellow this year!
think there was a small mistake by Cav letting WvA up the inside and protection from the wind...
as the overhead shows he could have keot that door well an truely shut.
https://twitter.com/deceuninck_qst/status/1412443662424870917
Philipsen was finishing fast too! just too far back when he started his effort.
i think when you're doing that well, you can fight cleanly as power and confidence is at an all time high, to close the door that close to the line would be blocking, last thing he wants is a bad rep, points deducting or even worse causing a collision and being disqualified.
He had the team taking the wind, and he had the power to do it cleanly, so didn't need to be swerving across. If you look where Philpsen was and the course he had to take in travelling way over to the right, his straight line speed seems to have been the greatest?
Getting their backs up is one thing, them being able to do anything about it, well that's a different game.
Here's a question, would Bennet have performed any better? Arguably he couldn't have done much better, but would he have won more convincingly.
Do we think Cav would beat him in a straight sprint off?
I don’t reckon Specialized would like that, i don’t think he’ll need to pay for another bike or Oakley shades ever again!
I *suspect* he was already getting some stash for free!