TDF 2024:-Stage 5: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne – Saint-Vulbas, 177.4km ***Spoilers***
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Think there's a lot of onion cutting about.
And dust.
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All credit, his team looked well drilled and worked bloody hard for 30kms to deliver him to a position where he could launch and he did so in style.
Well done Sir Cav 😂
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Metric ton of the stuff 😢
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I just wish they'd be going down the Champs-Élysées.
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In fairness to you - and as Orla has just said on Eurosport - he almost seemed to do everything in slow motion and with utter control all the way through. If you were choreographing it for Netflix you couldn't have done better - everyone seems to just open up the gaps for him.
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I was out of my seat screaming
"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 pm1 -
Philipsen found himself on McLay's wheel against the barriers, just as he was slowing up, and had Cavendish alongside him so he couldn't get the first run at the sprint. When the gap came, Cavendish looked across and flew off to the left, so Philipsen couldn't immediately get on his wheel. It was a superb bit of thinking and execution.
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Good call
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All time greatest is potentially over-egging it by Orla. Merckx did it over a shorter time frame in a wider range of stages and with the GC wins to go with it (I do subscribe to Rich's regular argument that the field is much deeper now than in the Merckx era though - I don't think Merckx would have won as many stages over the same duration in the current era).
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I wonder if Merckx will get a contract for next season to try to get the record back? Israel would probably take him
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Interesting that Renshaw doubted today was the stage for Cav, and thought tomorrow would suit him better.
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Quick, quick, get Sunak on a road bike.
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Next year's Netflix show will have plenty of stories to choose from. Only 5 days in and already not doing bad.
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See you all tomorrow then, will be kirby calling the finish alas.
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I get that teams are more into social media than anything, but you'd think that the Astana website would have had something ready to in case he broke the record.
Even if it was only "Cav breaks the record. More details to come"
But there's nothing: https://www.astana-qazaqstan.com
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Does Phil Liggett still commentate anywhere? Wouldn't mind hearing him call that one for old time's sake.
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Too busy partying ……
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can't see the finish on nbc because of geo restrictions but he's quite emotional
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When the field spread out across the finishing straight and Cav moved over to MvDP lead out then back to the center I got to my feet seeing it was going to open up ....he waited just long enough
"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 pm1 -
I can remember Phil Liggett explaining in 2007, when Cavendish achieved absolutely squit at the tour, that Mark was the coming thing (and me not really believing him, but hoping he was right about this young British kid). On balance I reckon he got that one just about right...
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The way most of the peloton came up after and congratulated him
"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 pm1 -
That was incredible. 3 of us watched it in my local bar in Chiang Mai. We scared the living daylights out of the other customers in that final 100 km with our screaming.
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100km?! That's some dedication!
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Missed it live unfortunately, but just caught up having been avoiding the old soshal medja.
Lots of onions here 😭
Chain coming off when he stops pedalling, 1500w to 0w 🤣
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Saw a comment on one of the many Instagram posts (Eurosport or Matt Stephens) along the lines of it obviously being stages as he’s 1.5 hours behind after 5 days. People will never cease to amaze me with their ignorance.
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Lol, that would have been indeed. Not sure where that k snuck in from. Alcohol and emotion possibly involved.
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After watching the overhead film several times I think you could use it as a coaching strategy in how the lone sprinter surfs their way through a chaotic sprint. From holding your line, not giving way when leaned on, make yourself bigger and looking where you are going when you take a different line.
Literally a master class.
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Headwind sprint, that's Cav's playground, he's never had the raw power but he's got about half the drag coefficient! The jump left to leave everyone else in the wind was a thing of beauty
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Mads P was pretty banged up there. X-Ray says nothing broken, but a hard fall. They'll see whether he can continue tomorrow morning.
The Cofidis rider that bunny hopped him was Axel Zingle, chapeau for that
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