TDF - As it happens

I have BVM & Cav, I went from being gutted to delighted in about 3 seconds :joy:

It does seem that emotion is making potential contenders into bona fide winners this year.

You’d have to be made of stone not to be moved by the wins of MvdP, JA & Cav :heart:

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Hate to jinx it. But there are what 4 more sprint stages that Cav could take. He comfortably took the intermediate sprint and stage win.

Will he match or beat the record?

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TO SAY THAT IS TABOO :speak_no_evil:

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Record is 34 iirc.

34…. Merckx

Git :joy:

Will Peta be the first page 3 bird to be a ‘Lady’ when Cav gets knighted?

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Yeah so he has to win them all to beat it.

Chances of that…

But there is always next year…

I think he relies on a good lead-out more than many of the other top sprinters. DQS are strong and that helps. Guys like Sagan, Demare, Bouhanni, Colbrelli, have all shown they can ‘surf’ the pack alone; and as the race goes on, I think most of these guys will get harder to beat as attrition kicks in.

Still remember the good old days of the HTC Highroad lead-out train. It was a thing of beauty with them dropping off one by one until it was just Cav with 100-150m to go and a monster sprint.

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Cav can freelance a sprint as well as anyone. He didn’t really have any kind of lead-out yesterday as his team had been burnt out pulling back the break

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Yeah, after HTC-Columbia, he became the master of wheel surfing.

And getting led out by Wiggins in yellow in Paris.

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Cav’s now favourite to take the green to Paris, just ahead of Sagan, would be a hell of a comeback

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IMO Saeco were the blueprint for lead out trains, they really wrote the book.

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They made great watches too :rofl:

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“Someday, all coffee machines will be made this way”

Showing my age there! :man_in_manual_wheelchair:

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Bjerg now the second favourite behind WvA for today since it began drizzling a bit

Fantastic save by Bissegger, not too sure what the moto was up to in front of him though

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Oh, Simon Yates is racing :rofl: Didn’t even realize!

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