Giro stage 13 SPOILER

graeme_s-2

Looked tight, but I think Cav bagged it.

DQ might as well just sit in silence during these sprint finishes, his commentary adds nothing whatsoever "Caven... can he.... sprint.... erm... ah.... Yes!"

MrTapir

did Cav win? my phone crashed just as they played the overhead shot.

RonB

Cavendish had to go from along way out there. Second place salute from Nizzolo.

Ed-tron

Hmm, swig of Fanta? Fancy one myself now

above_the_cows

Quigley is bobbins at calling sprints.

Well done Cav

There are very few people in any sport that you can trust to pull it off. Cav is one of those. He jumps, he gets his nose in the wind and you know he'll cross the line first.

Watching that overhead he is just so fast!

Vino'sGhost

MrTapir wrote:

did Cav win? my phone crashed just as they played the overhead shot.

yep really really impressive

danlikesbikes

MrTapir wrote:

did Cav win? my phone crashed just as they played the overhead shot.

Yep from the overhead made it look easy

smithy21

Nice work by Cav. Reckon he will be pretty proud of that one.

Pross

He had to work hard for that one and it showed. Good use of the shoulder on the guy who tried to box him in, no doubt in the TdF they'd use it as an excuse to DQ him but the Italians always seem more lenient.

Macaloon

OPQS seemed to ride 240km on the front. They'll deserve their Cav cuddles tonight. What a win.

Squaggles

Cav just gets the job done , quite incredible at this level

goonz

inkyfingers wrote:

Luckily the cricket has started to get interesting...

Do those 2 words even go in the same sentence?

pitchshifter

That will make them new t-shirts out of date then....

How must the other sprinters feel when they watch that back..? Truly amazing.

blazing_saddles

Viviani's conditioning is starting to suffer.
Went backwards at a rate of knots.
Nizzolo the strongest, but Cav the fastest.

graeme_s-2

Above The Cows wrote:

There are very few people in any sport that you can trust to pull it off. Cav is one of those. He jumps, he gets his nose in the wind and you know he'll cross the line first.

Watching that overhead he is just so fast!

It almost looks like he's cheating by riding faster than everyone else. The problem for everyone else is that as well as often having a good team and a leadout train, and being the fastest, he's also an outstanding technical sprinter. He's so good at reading a sprint, picking the right wheel, finding space and timing when to kick.

Pross

ThomThom wrote:

Motorbike pacing an italian from behind/side.. Who'd know...

Yep, may as well have had him sat on it!

afx237vi

Points jersey standings, anyone? A couple of breakaway days in the mountains would be helpful.

Edit: not from Cav obviously, but for others to scoop up the points Evans may take.

Walter White

Think thats number 40 in GT stage victories for Cav.

Madness he was 10-1 on hills and 16-1 on PP to win this stage, i didn't think he would get over the climbs, obviously the bookies thought similar.

above_the_cows

Ah, anyone fancy joining me in a piazza in Cherasco for an espresso or an aperitivo?

Quigley, is getting on my proverbials. 'Cavendish wasn't climbing so well earlier in the Giro.' No offence to Cav but some of those earlier climbs were a little different in character to those we've seen today.

above_the_cows

Graeme_S wrote:

Above The Cows wrote:

There are very few people in any sport that you can trust to pull it off. Cav is one of those. He jumps, he gets his nose in the wind and you know he'll cross the line first.

Watching that overhead he is just so fast!

It almost looks like he's cheating by riding faster than everyone else. The problem for everyone else is that as well as often having a good team and a leadout train, and being the fastest, he's also an outstanding technical sprinter. He's so good at reading a sprint, picking the right wheel, finding space and timing when to kick.

I've often thought he's like Neo and he's found a way of subverting the Matrix.

thomthom

Above The Cows wrote:

Ah, anyone fancy joining me in a piazza in Cherasco for an espresso or an aperitivo?

Quigley, is getting on my proverbials. 'Cavendish wasn't climbing so well earlier in the Giro.' No offence to Cav but some of those earlier climbs were a little different in character to those we've seen today.

Holm said Cav has lost 3kgs..

afx237vi

How can you get sunburn on your nose after 13 days of non stop rain?

Mad_Malx

afx237vi wrote:

Points jersey standings, anyone? A couple of breakaway days in the mountains would be helpful.

Edit: not from Cav obviously, but for others to scoop up the points Evans may take.

So is Cav in with a chance for the points jersey now?

OPQS getting their train sorted out better now, bodes well to take his tour tally up a few more too.

above_the_cows

afx237vi wrote:

How can you get sunburn on your nose after 13 days of non stop rain?

I got my cycling tan lines back after 1 hour out in the sun last week. :shock:

Squaggles wrote:

Cav just gets the job done , quite incredible at this level

Indeed. He really is special. To be that consistently good. And he does have lovely eyelashes.

Macaloon

Iron Man 4

petemadoc

Mad_Malx wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

Points jersey standings, anyone? A couple of breakaway days in the mountains would be helpful.

Edit: not from Cav obviously, but for others to scoop up the points Evans may take.

So is Cav in with a chance for the points jersey now?

OPQS getting their train sorted out better now, bodes well to take his tour tally up a few more too.

No train from OPQS today. Somehow Cav managed to drop all his team mates on the climbs :shock:

Wasn't someone saying Cav is cr4p without a leadout the other day :roll:

oldwelshman

ThomThom wrote:

Lars deserved this. Hope Cav fails in every way possible.

FFS what is it with you?
Just becuase Cav is in the bunch does not mean he works any less than someone in a break. He worked his nuts off for that win and shows some of the knobheads on here he can climb when worht it.

lostboysaint

PeteMadoc wrote:

Wasn't someone saying Cav is cr4p without a leadout the other day :roll:

That's always my favourite bullshit line. It's been trotted out for years now and every year at least 30% of his wins come from leapfrogging across other people's trains and just being in the right wheel at the right time to light the afterburner.

Le Commentateur

A couple of Cav's team closed the gap to the skateboader in Katusha kit, then Cannondale took over, Cav improvising about a half a dozen riders back. Rode it Robbie McEwen style today.

oldwelshman

Blazing Saddles wrote:

Viviani's conditioning is starting to suffer.
Went backwards at a rate of knots.
Nizzolo the strongest, but Cav the fastest.

How do you make this out? How is Nizzolo the strongest when he came 2nd?