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  • acidstrato
    acidstrato Posts: 945
    58585 wrote:
    Calling it the sprinter's jersey shows a certain lack of understanding (or maybe just stuborn-ness)/cycling knowledge.
    Look at last year, Hushovd won the jersey in the alps.

    and...

    still had to sprint to the line to pip other riders
    Crafted in Italy apparantly
  • clanton
    clanton Posts: 1,289
    It is not really a sprinter's jersey - it is the most consistent finishers jersey. Which is why an extremly dominant non sprinter such as Merckx can win it. The key here is finisher - if you don't complete the Tour you don't win it. Cippolini was the best sprinter of his day and he never won the green - he wore it yes but he never won it.

    It is not such a subtle distinction - to win the green you need to keep finishing high up in the stages all the way through he tour - not just outsprint a few others on the flat stages.
  • Wooliferkins
    Wooliferkins Posts: 2,060
    Pross wrote:
    Is it weighted the same in the Giro and Vuelta? Again, Jaja won the points at the Giro post crash and managed to take all 3 jerseys in the same year at the Vuelta. Having said that he is the exception and it generally gets won by a spinter but as others have said not necessarily the fastest sprinter but the most consistent.

    Hmm Mercyx 1969 all three jerseys. Eddy a sprinter? Yes the route/jersey has been weighted for sprinters in the recent past but I think it's changing Pure sprinters banged out at mtn stage one (Aah Mario) but now you need to be able to get over a hill as it was in days of yore. You must make it most of the way to Paris now as opposed to 7 dull sprints in the first week and 43rd over the first molehill

    (In my lardy touriste humble opinion)
    Neil
    Help I'm Being Oppressed
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Wooliferkins wrote:
    [opposed to 7 dull sprints in the first week (In my lardy touriste humble opinion)
    Nowt been dull about the sprints this year!
    Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.
  • magicrhodes
    magicrhodes Posts: 123
    58585 wrote:
    Calling it the sprinter's jersey shows a certain lack of understanding (or maybe just stuborn-ness)/cycling knowledge.
    Look at last year, Hushovd won the jersey in the alps.

    Cavendish has undeniably got the best motor in the sprints, he is every bit as good as Cancellara is when it comes to the TT discipline. Don't forget that luck can play such a big role in the final 500m of the big races which means a sprinter can never take a win for granted.

    Yeah and an overly favourable judges decision...

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