Cavendish the classic winner!
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I couldn't believe it when I saw him on the Poggio. Would have never thought it.
Never seen someone close such a big gap in a sprint down.
Looks like Boonen's comment's rattled him a bit! Not that it matters since he beat him... Absolutely stunned he did it on his first attempt.
(I'm a big Boonen fan by the way....)Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.0 -
teagar wrote:Never seen someone close such a big gap in a sprint down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsv_7o3mQno
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DaveyL wrote:teagar wrote:Never seen someone close such a big gap in a sprint down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsv_7o3mQno
touche...Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.0 -
Epic! That guy's a machine! :shock:
Anyone got a photo finish?0 -
The boy is a legend, pure and simple.0
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Pozzato being a bit churlish claiming Bennati and Pettachi would have won if no stuck in the pack for the sprint. Isn't that why Hincapie was on the front for Cav and Cav was sat in 5th in the run in? If they had wanted to prevent a sprint they should have made the pace much harder on the hills....0
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Well done that man, performance over personality!Half man, Half bike0
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Post race interview with Cav. My favourite quote: "Yes. Absolutely. I knew that is what they were saying. Tom Boonen said I am always dropped when the road go up. In Tirreno, I only got dropped once. The sweet thing was to win, but the second sweetest thing was to see Tom Boonen pass me backwards on the climbs."--
Obsessed is just a word elephants use to describe the dedicated. http://markliversedge.blogspot.com0 -
Boonen Vs Cav is starting to shape up nicely as an ongoing rivalry.0
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skavanagh.bikeradar wrote:Boonen Vs Cav is starting to shape up nicely as an ongoing rivalry.
mostly as a war of words. boonen is hardly getting pipped by Cav - he doesnt bother and wallows in the mid pack when cav is there - then comes up with some bollox about why he didnt want to compete in the sprint. eg final tirrano stage saving himself for MSR then not competing in sprint despite screwing up his team mates chances by getting them to ride tempo0 -
Marco Cavendish
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In this interview, http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Girodit ... remo.shtml (click on the right, where it says "tutti video" …
I think Cav handles this well. Having that many microphones in your face after a 300km race must be pure torture - I bet all he wants is a massage and some sleep.
Anyway - what are they chances of this being in any of our newspapers this morning? If they aren't we should write in and let them know that (one of) the best cyclists in the world right now is british and they should get behind him.
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camerone wrote:skavanagh.bikeradar wrote:Boonen Vs Cav is starting to shape up nicely as an ongoing rivalry.
mostly as a war of words. boonen is hardly getting pipped by Cav - he doesnt bother and wallows in the mid pack when cav is there - then comes up with some bollox about why he didnt want to compete in the sprint. eg final tirrano stage saving himself for MSR then not competing in sprint despite screwing up his team mates chances by getting them to ride tempo
+1. Boonen would be better off by admitting that Cav is untouchable in the sprints and that he's just going to concentrate on the cobbled classics from now on. Everyone knows that Flanders and P-R are the most important races for Boonen, so it's not as if he's going to lose face by peaking for April and then chasing the odd TdF stage, leaving the green jersey to Cavendish.
I can't see Cavendish challenging Boonen for honours in Flanders/Roubaix for the next few years, so Tommeke's still got the time to establish himself as an all-time legend, with nothing to envy Britain's own great.0 -
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It'll depend on when Boonen is aiming to peak, MSR may be a little bit too early, if he's going for the Belgian classics.
Mind you, he's admitted he wouldn't have won, even if he was on form.
"Even in top shape I would have been third to Heinrich Haussler and Mark Cavendish, they were so strong."
Watching the helicopter shots was great, Cav moving up, getting others to move out of the way and that finnish of his, when Haussler got that gap, I thought "That's it, he's won"
His comments sound like pure bull to me.
"I came from behind with around 500 metres to go, but with too much speed," he said after his second place finish. "I yelled at Thor, 'Come on, get on my wheel,' and then I went. I was going too fast and he couldn't get on my wheel"
Working for Hushovd my arse!
A two second gap opened up over the top sprinters in 500m or so!Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.0 -
If I'd ridden nearly 300km the only way I'd get over the line at that speed would be in the back of the ambulance.
Cavendish was quite simply a different class in the sprint.
Superb.Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs0 -
Absolutely fantastic by Cavendish well done. Why however is there no coverage of this in the media? Nothing on the 10 O'Clock news, a tiny article on the BBC website and nothing in the papers. On the Times website there is nothing on the news page about it, nothing on the sports page about it and even stranger than that there is nothing on the cycling section about it! It seems that unless you ride on the track no one cares anymore.“Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.” Fausto Coppi0
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Blazing Saddles wrote:johnfinch wrote:
anyone got Contador's twitter?Kléber wrote:This should also dampen down the hype about Armstrong, he was dropped on the Cipressa.
I wasn't expecting much from LA today, but to see him get dropped going up a hill is surprising.
Better to be nervous than cooked.
Looked like sh*t, 20kms before the Cipressa.
I see the Giro suddenly becoming a field of dreams....
I'm getting that feeling too... one month+ left to get into shape... he used ride flanders for hincapie and look pretty tasty at times.. thats what 2 weeks or so away
whats his next race?"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
pottssteve wrote:If I'd ridden nearly 300km the only way I'd get over the line at that speed would be in the back of the ambulance.
Cavendish was quite simply a different class in the sprint.
Superb.
cav was simply amazing.... I did not think he had this sort of performance in him...
I don't think he did either
Hincapie did a lot of good shepherding work for him and deserves a big big big big dose of credit... its easy to ride for a guy you know can do the buisness and georges experience partners well with cav"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
There's a write up in the observer. I know it's frustrating but cycling's a minority sport0
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dave milne wrote:There's a write up in the observer. I know it's frustrating but cycling's a minority sport
Sadly it is. Highlights the gulf between these isles and the continent. We already see it in the majority's view of the EU/Euro etc and the lack of coverage for cycling except Lance/Tour de France/Olympics will probably remain for a while.
I wonder how much they'll be talking about it during the world tracks coverage. Probably lots of coverage about last year/bemoaning poor Chris Hoy instead. I might be wrong though.0 -
Yesterday morning 5-live ran a interview, with a cycling journo about MSR, centred around Lance's return to European. Fair enough.
Said journo, after the Lance stuff, said 'oh and we are represented by Cav, but it's not his ideal routine, so just an outside chance'. Again fair enough.
Now I've not listened to that much coverage today, so could have missed it, but too my knowledge there's not been a mention, of Cav's win. Minority is one thing but you'd have thought after Sports Personality auntie beep would be falling over themselves.
P.S. In the orginal interview:-
Studio 'my geography ain't great how far is San Remo from Milan'.
Journo 'about 300kms'
Studio 'so what's that then, about 3 days of riding'
Journo 'no, they will be finished at about 4 o'clock' 0 -
dave milne wrote:There's a write up in the observer. I know it's frustrating but cycling's a minority sport
I dunno, I wonder how many cyclists compete in UK compared to how many people play rugby/golf/snooker/darts on a competitive basis, but those sports get pretty good TV coverage. And seeing as these islands aren't producing too many other great champions, I'd expect a bit of coverage.0 -
Yes, the lack of coverage is poor; you'd think the media would be all over cycling after what happened in the Olympics...
The truth is, the average man-on-the-street has only heard of the Tour de France so has no idea how important the Milano-San Remo is. So the media don't prioritise this race because it's all about supply and demand and reporting what they think is popular at the time. It's just a shame that the news papers don't just experiment and create the supply, without the demand to try and create some kind of buzz about the sport themselves; it's not like they'd lose any sales in the process... :?0 -
No report in the Independent either as far as I can see. And they're supposed to be all about cycling and stuff. Lip service.0
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Bum service more like.
On the other hand of course the man on the Clapham omnibus wouldn't have a flucking clue what was going on in MSR and even worse if there was no prospect of a British win they'd be watcing a load of foreigners - FOREIGNERS I tells ye - racing bikes about somewhere in Italy...and that isn't very attractive I'm guessing to most.0 -
The only criteria for the newspapers is...if it sells more copies, they will write about it. But it is a bit "chicken and egg" at the moment.
I see there is 3 days of track racing later this week on the BBC, at least that is a start.Half man, Half bike0
