Tour de France 2010

Greipel MUST be crawling up the walls after yesterday's epic finish.

CAV FTW!!!!!

Who?

Teams have got wise to the mechanics of the HTC train, which is 90% of the Cav equation.

Zacchery. Yesterday.. no train.. Cav quits. Thor got boxed in a bit when Cav moved over and Petacchi had already made his move.

You know, the Manx cock sucker.

Petacchi has used the same excellent tactic twice now, and uses the same tactic each time he beats Cav.

He sprints early.

Cav has clicked to that now, that's why he sat up.
You could see it on his face, calling himself a fucking donkey for letting it happen.
Both Thor and Cav will be watching Petacchi today.
There will be blood!
McEwen will finish fifth. And bitch about it.
Because he's a bitch.

As for the lead out train being 90% of the equation, I disagree.

Cav has to come off a wheel, but he can come off anyone's wheel. He definitely has the fastest acceleration in the peloton, but only over 200m. Petacchi is good for 300-400m. Not as fast as Cav, but a lot more stamina. If he could get on Petacchi's wheel then he could get round him for the win. The problem is just getting that fucking wheel!

WTF.. Mckckceeewwwon was totally cool with his reponse yesterday, calmly stating he just didn't have the legs to get over Petacchi. He's doing better than Cav this Tour and far more modest in victory and defeat.

How many sprints has Cav won coming off a non-team wheel compared to when his leadout train is in place?

Twenty pence bet that Cav get's over the line before McEwen today.

Twenty English pence, my friend.

Oh, and:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCAUo-oUlj4

He's a lead out train sprinter, I'll grant you, but he doesn't always need it.

Twenty pence bet that Cav get's over the line before McEwen today.
Twenty English pence, my friend.

I think I can afford to take that bet.. done.

On of the best sprint stages of recent years I one of the reasons I rate McEwan.
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He's a lead out train sprinter, I'll grant you, but he doesn't always need it.

I didn't say he did always need it. I said "How many sprints has Cav won coming off a non-team wheel compared to when his leadout train is in place?"

Is that the Canterbury stage? Awesome work.

Oh and in MSR Cav's leadout was Haussler.. who he only just beat..

He still beat him though, eh?

Yep Canterbury.

Another reason to like McEwan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7O1yMRYSQo

McEwen's a gobby little arsehole. Just like Cav in fact.

He still beat him though, eh?

Yeah but at the time he was "the fastest sprinter in the world". Now he has to crash his competitors out..

McEwen's a gobby little arsehole. Just like Cav in fact.

I'm sure you know them both quite well and are basing this on more than post race interviews.
Oh wait, McEEEwanz interview did in fact paint him as quite modest in his defeat to Petacchi.. unlike Captain Sulko throwing his shit about.

If I could find it I'd offer up the footage of McEwen throwing a punch at O'Grady in the middle of a Tour sprint. Or the time when he rode back 1 km down the course to hurl abuse at a stricken Rene Hasselbacher after he crashed out of the Tour in 2004.

Quite amusing...Cav...Toys...Pram....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro2nDhJ6Wp8

Nice work by Hondo--at first I couldn't work out what he was doing and thought he'd only lost Petacchi, but Sean Kelly said that he'd deliberately disrupted the Columbia train. That sounds right to me--what do people think?

(Much as Cavendish may not have been fast enough to win even with an undisrupted train.)

In Eric Zabel's interview at the end of the ITV4 coverage he said that the lead-out train was fine and Cav just didn't have the legs. He looked a bit fed up, but his honesty was nice.

I think Sean Kelly read that right, though (not terribly surprisingly)--Hondo and Petacchi said after the race that Petacchi sent Hondo to the front to disrupt the Columbia train.

Oh, and people are mis-spelling McKeown's name deliberately, aren't they?

If I could find it I'd offer up the footage of McEwen throwing a punch at O'Grady in the middle of a Tour sprint. Or the time when he rode back 1 km down the course to hurl abuse at a stricken Rene Hasselbacher after he crashed out of the Tour in 2004.

I vaguely remember a coming together between O'grady and McEwen in a sprint and they were both at it, flailing about each other.

Hasselbacher is a compulsive crasher and fucked it for McEwen. I'd have words with him too.

Whilst he was lying on the ground with broken bones? Classy touch that.

Anyway, sprinters are sprinters, they're all mad, short, egotistical, angry men. Deal with it.