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Impressive numbers, but isn't the competition much stronger now as well? Feels like there's 2-3 well organised sprint trains at least now, a few years ago HTC was way ahead of all others in terms of organisation and plan
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With no Bennett, Gaviria, Ackermann and now Ewan, I’d say that only Merlier remains of the best sprinters of this season, along with Cavendish.
We’ll see tomorrow who is top sprinting dog in this year’s Tour.
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They’re comparing against 2015 Cavendish, which was peak Kittel, Greipel, Sagan etc era.
Sprint chains were very well developed then. To be fair, sprint trains in its 2010 form doesn’t show up as it’s much more messy, due to more players.
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Quote from Cav's coach back in April
https://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/mark-cavendishs-sprint-data-is-better-now-than-6-years-ago-his-coach-says/
However, Anastopoulos has insisted Cavendish’s sprint is superior now than it was six years ago.
“We can see now that he has a slightly better peak power and the duration of his sprint is better now than previously,” he said of 2021 data compared to 2015.
“So now he can also hold his sprint for a longer period of time than previously,”