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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Incredible job by Wiggins, then Stannard/Geraint to get Cav higher then Cav for keeping calm, finding the gap and ripping them.

    Congratulations.
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    edited September 2011
    iainf72 wrote:
    Strong sprint from Cavendish, so deserved win. But it really was a race of 15 seconds interest


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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    Well done Cav, that was a fantastic sprint.
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  • ilikecycling
    ilikecycling Posts: 50
    arise Sir Cav
  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    A great performance by the GB team. And to think that back in the old days the only time one usually saw a GB jersey was when the rider wearing it was going out of the back!
  • Snorebens
    Snorebens Posts: 759
    I can definitely see how Oz how no need for Renshaw :roll:
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Greipel takes 3rd. Would have been a cr@p little race if he won 8)
  • harrylennon13
    harrylennon13 Posts: 43
    What a race.
    Well done not only to Cav, but to Cancellara and Goss.
  • B3rnieMac
    B3rnieMac Posts: 384
    a good end to the HTC-Highroad team, silver and gold in the Road Race, Gold in the TT
  • Sheptastic
    Sheptastic Posts: 298
    congratulations to the dutch... on their podium girls.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,724
    Poor Goss looks gutted, He ain't keeping that medal!!
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,724
    Sheptastic wrote:
    congratulations to the dutch... on their podium girls.

    Danish even!
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,576
    His ability to cope with pressure and deliver the result when it matters is amazing. What a superb team performance too.
  • FCE2007
    FCE2007 Posts: 962
    Peta hubba hubba :D
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,724
    FCE2007 wrote:
    Peta hubba hubba :D

    What the hell is she wearing though?!?!
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  • dougzz
    dougzz Posts: 1,833
    iainf72 wrote:
    Strong sprint from Cavendish, so deserved win. But it really was a race of 15 seconds interest
    The type of course varies each year, and Cav took advantage of the course to suit him. Come on Iain, at least give it a day or two before the analysis and sniping starts.

    Well done Cav, and the GB team. We're going to have a whole year of watching a Brit in the rainbow jersey.
  • FCE2007
    FCE2007 Posts: 962
    ddraver wrote:
    FCE2007 wrote:
    Peta hubba hubba :D

    What the hell is she wearing though?!?!

    Nothing in about 30 minutes time :wink:
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  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    Cav was superb. TeamGB did a great effort to keep it under control. I can only guess that Wiggo was doing a super pace on the final lap, otherwise no idea why no-one attacked properly.

    Setting up the sprint was a shambles. If Goss won, most of us would be criticising the tactics late on ..... but didn't matter in the end.

    What happened to Gilbert, Sagan etc?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,731
    That's the first time I have seen a 266km lead out.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,724
    We re waiting for you Coroneymede......
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Where's the bar?!

    8)
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  • rajMAN
    rajMAN Posts: 429
    It was GB versus Rest of The World.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Isn't it always?
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  • SLX01
    SLX01 Posts: 338
    Moomaloid wrote:
    Such an amazing ride by the whole team. Wiggo was immense!

    Its a shame that a few years down the road Cav will still be remembered as World Champ but the effort to get him there will be forgotten, the whole team deserve a medal!!
  • stevezissou
    stevezissou Posts: 9
    SLX01 wrote:
    Moomaloid wrote:
    Such an amazing ride by the whole team. Wiggo was immense!

    Its a shame that a few years down the road Cav will still be remembered as World Champ but the effort to get him there will be forgotten, the whole team deserve a medal!!

    Won't be forgotten by anyone who watched the race. They were immense!
  • oldwelshman
    oldwelshman Posts: 4,733
    TheStone wrote:
    Cav was superb. TeamGB did a great effort to keep it under control. I can only guess that Wiggo was doing a super pace on the final lap, otherwise no idea why no-one attacked properly.

    Setting up the sprint was a shambles. If Goss won, most of us would be criticising the tactics late on ..... but didn't matter in the end.

    What happened to Gilbert, Sagan etc?
    Not sure the sprint was messed up, we only had Stannard and Thomas left with Cav on their wheel with a long finish straight ahead, Cav god moved back a bit but got in about 10th place so he knew what he was doing, G ended up on the fron early but Cav was behind Goss which is a pretty good wheel to get onto. CAv started his sprint in perfect time and got a jump on Goss. Dagan faded badly but he is still young, Gilbert just not fast enough against true sprinters, Chinny did really well and was very close to 3rd.
    Glad the Italians and spannish got nowhere having done nothing :D Thought EBH would have finished higher up, at least his team and Germans did some work.
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  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    BikingBernie wrote:
    A great performance by the GB team. And to think that back in the old days the only time one usually saw a GB jersey was when the rider wearing it was going out of the back!
    My memory is of Robert Miller trailing at the back while he was acting as a domestic for the Greg Lemond USA Team.
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  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    Brilliant ride by the whole team on the front of the peleoton pretty much from the start. Its hard to pick one out as they are rode themselves into the ground. Like Cav said he HAD to win after the effort they had put in for him.

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  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    ddraver wrote:
    We re waiting for you Coroneymede......
    Where's the "Like" button?
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