It’s going to be great to see Cav in the rainbow jersey in the TdF next year.

what a great day to be a British cyclist! Cav was awesome, Wiggo an absolute beast on the last lap. By all accounts the team are already pissed, it’s gonna be a big night!!!

Cavendish in 2011: 2 Giro stages, 5 Tour stages, a Tour de France green jersey and a world title.

Not a bad year, really.

Interesting to see the GB riders in skinsuits and with blocked vents/helmet covers today. More mad science from the Professor?

@bradwiggins
Cav wins, I think its safe to say tonight we are all going to get shitfaced! Lock and load

Wonder if its enough to get him sports personality of the year ….?

What a great race.

what a great day to be a British cyclist!

yes

What a great race.

+1, just watched it after getting back from work, stunning result and bigging up the team post race, well done all.

warton – Member

what a great day to be a British cyclist!

Cav ain’t British. He is a manxman is he not and the isle of man is not a part of Britain

Just to be pedantic like.

that’ll be why he rides for the GB team then

It’s good to see a fellow manxman doing well at something 🙂 tj is right about the isle of man not being part of gb or uk, I am presuming rather like playing for England cav has a relative who is gb. Either that or the fact we are a crown dependency somehow allows it..

Either way get in there Cav!! 😀

Cav ain’t British. He is a manxman is he not and the isle of man is not a part of Britain

Cavendish won as a member of the Great Britain team, ergo saying ‘what a great day to be a British cyclist’ is a perfectly sensible thing to say.

Assuming he’s riding under the British Cycling banner…
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Well as Cav doesn’t count, seeing he’s not British just a Manxman 😉 The rest of the GB team gets my vote for giving one of the greatest ever British team performances. Simply awesome 😀 😯

Breathtaking ride from Cav and the team. Wonder when the Team Sky announcement will come?

No one let anyone down on Sunday. “It was daunting,” Millar said, “but everybody did their job even more than we expected.” The Scot had been sharing a room with Cavendish in the team hotel. “What can you say about Cav? He’s a funny little bastard. We’ve watched every race together in our room and every time we’ve watched a finish he’s been off his bed, shouting: ‘I promise I’m going to win on Sunday.'” The most impulsive and emotional of men but the most cold-blooded of athletes when the fires of competition are at their fiercest, Cavendish would be keeping his end of the bargain.

Cavendish dedicated “the biggest jersey you can get” to his national team, adding: “I’m limited, I can’t win the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, so this is the biggest jersey I can achieve.
“I wear it on behalf of Great Britain.”

Maybe you should tell him he aint British TJ.

MarkCavendish
twitpic.com/6qt98o well it’s sunk in after waking up to this! Yesterday I was seriously in shock & disbelief. British World Champion!

TandemJeremy – Member
Cav ain’t British….
…Just to be pedantic like

he’s more British than you are Scotish 😉

If you look at the full results you can see the sacrifice the rest of the team made: Wiggins finished 3 minutes down, Millar and Hunt 8 minutes down, all presumably having gone out the back door after working themselves half to death for Cavendish….

It really was phenomenal, I was sure he had lost it with 400m to go, all of a sudden Cav seemed swamped. But he just doesn’t know how to lose. Brilliant performance and the rest of the GB team put in a hell of an effoert to get him there

Wonder if its enough to get him sports personality of the year ….?

Not a chance – even if he has won almost everything it’s possible for him to win this year in one of the hardest and most competitive sports going. It will be a golfist. Might make the top 3 though.

Cav ain’t British.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_people
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/61
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/680/contents/made

Fabian isn’t that happy