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Marcel Kittel proves himself the best sprinter at the 2013 Tour de France

July 21, 2013 · by Alex · in Tour de France

The points competition is geared towards the sprinters, but it isn’t the sprint competition. If it were, Marcel Kittel would have been the one with the green beard, not Peter Sagan. Kittel won four stages…

Is Marcel Kittel faster than Mark Cavendish?

July 11, 2013 · by Alex · in Tour de France

When it comes to bunch sprints in the Tour de France, the default result is a Mark Cavendish win. Sometimes he can be outmanoeuvred, sometimes his lead-out train goes awry, but if things go smoothly,…

The apparent inevitability of a Mark Cavendish win – chapter one billion

May 17, 2013 · by Alex · in Giro d'Italia

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…

Mark Cavendish imposes order

May 10, 2013 · by Alex · in Giro d'Italia

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…

John Degenkolb’s moustache wins stage five of the Giro

May 8, 2013 · by Alex · in Giro d'Italia

With no changes in the general classification, by far the biggest news on stage five was that John Degenkolb’s moustache conquered steep climbs and crashes to sprint to victory. Here is a photograph of John…

Andre Greipel’s legs

July 5, 2012 · by Alex · in Tour de France

I was massively disappointed that Anthony Delaplace didn’t get into the break today, but I was less disappointed that Mark Cavendish was beaten by everyone’s favourite wide-mouthed Germanic meat sack in the sprint. You need…

How powerful is Andre Greipel?

July 4, 2012 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Andre Greipel’s angry mashing got him over the line first today. I’m glad I’m not a pedal. He was lucky in that he didn’t have to beat Mark Cavendish who was mangled in a pile-up…

Mark Cavendish bollocks Kenny Van Hummel while sprinting

July 3, 2012 · by Alex · in Tour de France

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…

Three reasons why Mark Cavendish is inhuman

July 2, 2012 · by Alex · in Tour de France

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…

Andre Greipel – Tour de France rider to know and love

June 27, 2012 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Andre Greipel’s nickname is ‘Gorilla’. I sort of get this. I presume it’s a reference to his round-armed sprinting style and his gargantuan physique. You don’t think a cyclist could have a gorilla body? Take…

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