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Hasn’t Cavendish since about 2015 mostly been about using his acceleration over pure watts?
He’s the wiliest of all of them these days and has Morkov dropping him off to perfection. Imagine if he breaks the records on the champs elysees this year.
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He’s got to get through the Alps and the Pyrenees first. That wasn’t a given when he was in his prime.
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He’s the wiliest of all of them these days
I’ve watched the last 10 seconds of the sprint again and again, and Cav’s tactical movement was absolutely perfect. Just before the final curve he was in line with Philipsen, barely starting to pull ahead and leaving enough space for Bouhanni to move his front wheel between them, thereby blocking Philipsen from edging Cav to the side. Then he cut right towards Philipsen, I think, to jostle him or crowd him against the barrier because Philipsen stopped pedalling and lost 2nd place if not the race (seems the wall wasn’t an even curve but c’est la vie).
Cav seemed more powerful at the end but those moves really showed a lifetime of embodied practice and honed instinct, really excellent stuff.
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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,”