Tag: Mark Cavendish
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Third wheel Remco, gravel grovelling, Mark Cavendish doesn’t know what year it is + more | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2024 Tour de France
After nine stages of the 2024 Tour de France, the big stories are probably Remco Evenepoel inserting himself between yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar and reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard, and Mark Cavendish winning a stage – a feat that is almost paradoxically newsworthy precisely because of what a common occurrence it has been. Roll up, roll…
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Two heads are better than none | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2023 Tour de France
This year’s Tour de France was seen as a straight head-to-head between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard and almost immediately appeared to become that. That’s probably better than only having one of them left in the race – or neither. We have a decent idea how good different riders can be going into the Tour…
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Primoz Roglic finally gets round to winning | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia
Primoz Roglic famously lost the Tour de France in a mountain time trial. He was first overall at the bottom but only second by the top. This time he did the reverse, albeit with a gut-churning pause halfway up when he dropped his chain and came to a complete standstill. That stationary moment must have…
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Clarity postponed | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2022 Giro d’Italia
Recap of Stages 1-9 Recap of Stages 10-15 Recap of Stages 16-21 Maybe it’s just an illusion derived from social media, but sometimes I feel like I’m adrift in a world of certainty. Everyone arguing their case with conviction. Everyone eternally right about everything. I have no clue who’s going to win the Giro d’Italia.…
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Victories for Froome and Cavendish, but mostly for Pogacar | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2021 Tour de France
The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Victory for Chris Froome, who was named ‘most polite rider’ by Tour de France organisers ASO after the race. Getting through three weeks of frenetic grand tour racing was kind of a win too, given he suffered a broken hip, fractured femur, fractured elbow, broken…
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Eddy Merckx says Mark Cavendish is pretty tidy | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2021 Tour de France
The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap After a frenetic first week that ended with Tadej Pogacar 5m18s ahead of his closest credible rival, the headline news from the second week is that the Slovenian is now… 5m18s ahead of his closest credible rival. Fortunately, the Tour de France…
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Unfamiliar faces v familiar faces | a 2021 spring classics recap
The big springtime one-day races represent the divide between people who really follow cycling and people who very much like it and will definitely watch it when it’s on ITV4 but probably won’t actively seek it out. Whichever group you fall into, here’s a recap. Milan-Sanremo Milan-Sanremo came to a head as it always does,…
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A sprinter’s view of the mountains as Mark Cavendish fails to make the time cut
When Mark Cavendish finished stage 11 of this year’s Tour de France, they were clearing the barriers away. Podium ceremonies had been and gone and the new yellow jersey, Geraint Thomas, was busy doing a press conference. Cavendish was way outside the time cut, he knew he was way outside the time cut, but he…
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Vincenzo Nibali is slowly winning all of the things
Milan-Sanremo really is one of the finest races of the year. At 291km, it is very long, which is a very important quality as it means people can deploy the word ‘epic’ which is a thing that people very much like to do these days. It is also probably the most balanced race of the…
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Stage four: Cavendish finds more give in roadside barrier than Sagan’s elbow
It was a day of aqueducts, châteaux and sheep. The flat profile meant the break was always going to be caught and when that break turned out to be just one rider – Belgian Guillaume Van Keirsbulck – everyone was set for a loooong day of racing. This is what 99 per cent of the…