Bike Racing

[Witton Park]

Great racing so far and a cracking move by Lafay yesterday - you could sense he'd done it within 5-10 seconds of going.

[molehill]

Been good viewing so far, if Cav could take it today that would put that goal to rest and we could all relax and enjoy the remaining sprinter stages. But have to accept he is the underdog and not top dog now.
Should be plenty of good racing to come, though hard to see past one of two riders winning it, barring mishaps.

[Witton Park]

Been good viewing so far, if Cav could take it today that would put that goal to rest and we could all relax and enjoy the remaining sprinter stages. But have to accept he is the underdog and not top dog now.
Should be plenty of good racing to come, though hard to see past one of two riders winning it, barring mishaps.

I don't think he really went for it. I think it was a "let's see where I'm at" so to finish as high as he did suggests he can get his stage with a little luck.

[Marco]

I don't think he really went for it. I think it was a "let's see where I'm at" so to finish as high as he did suggests he can get his stage with a little luck.

I think he did go for it; looking at the overhead camera view he was 5 bike lengths behind Philipsen with 504m to go - and they were doing 69-70km/h at the time. On the line the gap was around 2.5 bike lengths.

The reason Philipsen won, was because he had a fantastic lead-out. Yesterday's finish showed that there are at least six really top sprinters in the race, and Cav is one of them

[Witton Park]

I think he did go for it; looking at the overhead camera view he was 5 bike lengths behind Philipsen with 504m to go - and they were doing 69-70km/h at the time. On the line the gap was around 2.5 bike lengths.

The reason Philipsen won, was because he had a fantastic lead-out. Yesterday's finish showed that there are at least six really top sprinters in the race, and Cav is one of them

and his one-man led out did it for him today again.

[PeteS]

Finale was carnage today on what should have been a relatively safe finish. With the next few days in mind, I can see why teams were taking it easy but there was far more accidents than needed to happen. Cav did well considering but when you have a talented sprinter with MVdP as your lead out, there will only ever be one result.

[Witton Park]

Finale was carnage today on what should have been a relatively safe finish.

I wonder if it was the shape of the corners on the circuit.

[PeteS]

I think it was more that the peleton were happy to roll in and just contest the sprint so the field had not been subject to it's usual whittling down to the select GC and sprint leadouts.

[molehill]

A long way to go still and a lot of mountain racing, but I wouldn't be looking further than either of those two for yellow in Paris.

[Witton Park]

Unfortunate yesterday if you are a Cavendish fan like me.

Looked over and done with as he swept up the right hand side and could see something wasn't right as he lost momentum.
Credit to Philipsen for his win again, but accidents aside, I think Cav has shown he's still got it and hopefully he'll pick up his stage before long. Maybe today, although there's a few lumps in the last 50km.