Tag: Mark Cavendish
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The best of Mark Cavendish
Mark Cavendish won his fifth stage at this year’s Giro yesterday and so took the maglia rossio passione (great name). He has now won the points classification in all three Grand Tours and it has been far from easy. Many feel that Cav is at his best in a sprint finish, but that doesn’t actually…
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The apparent inevitability of a Mark Cavendish win – chapter one billion
It was less than a day ago that I tried to get us all to appreciate the near-inevitability of a Mark Cavendish sprint win by pointing out that it had been less than a week since I’d tried to get us all to appreciate the near-inevitability of a Mark Cavendish sprint win. I then correctly…
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Cavendish wins, Wiggins doesn’t
It was less than a week ago that I tried to get us all to appreciate the near-inevitability of a Mark Cavendish sprint win. I don’t think I managed it and perhaps the measure of the man is that I feel in no hurry to correct that – I’ve infinite chances to get it right,…
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Cadel v Cav
Apologies to the winner, Ramunas Navardauskas, but yesterday’s stage was a bit nothingy. There was a big break (not a Big Break – that would be unacceptable) and Navardauskas showed great strength to win from it, but nothing much happened in the general classification. That will almost certainly be the case again today, but we will…
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Mark Cavendish imposes order
Approaching a sprint finish, the peloton is a ruddy great mess. It’s a teeming beast where lines of riders intertwine, break, attach, merge and occasionally make a gravel rash offering to the gods of the road. Who’s leading? Watch TV coverage and it can be hard to pick out the main contenders. They’re the ones…
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Mark Cavendish surrenders Giro lead to Team Sky
After stage one, I wondered how Mark Cavendish would cope when he realised that hills would be added to corners thus increasing the difficulty of the Giro d’Italia. I got my answer after the team time trial. “It was all left, right, up and down. It was difficult for me and the team.” Cavendish’s Omega…
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Gun Hill – Tour of Britain hill climb preview
Gun Hill appears during stage 5 of the Tour of Britain and apparently it’s a popular highlight. It’s famous for once having made Mark Cavendish cry on a training ride, but he must have been having a really bad day because it’s nowt special really. I speak with some authority, because it’s a hill I’m…
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One yellow jersey – many owners
As defining images go, you’d think it would be difficult to beat the moment 1km from the finish of the final stage of this year’s Tour de France. Bradley Wiggins, in his yellow jersey, led. The entire peloton trailed behind him. However, there was a better moment and it came just a few seconds afterwards.…
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Mark Cavendish bollocks Kenny Van Hummel while sprinting
One of stage three’s highlights was seeing Mark Cavendish bollock Kenny Van Hummel during and immediately after the intermediate sprint. Van Hummel had done a bit of a manoeuvre and Cavendish felt it necessary to tell him how he felt about this. For maximum emasculation, he did this while basically just drifting past Van Hummel,…
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Three reasons why Mark Cavendish is inhuman
1. The ability to maintain a high speed Not the speed of the sprint, the speed of the run-in. The peloton was doing 45mph over the last few miles of Stage 2 of this year’s Tour and riders were disappearing out the back because they couldn’t maintain that flat speed even when drafting someone else.…