Recent content by Arklar

Sure, but DQS choose to give him a contract instead of some other guy, and they could easily have given someone else a spot at the Tour, and they could have used different tactics and gone for stage wins a different way with another rider. There are three things there that are not explained...

If a road cyclist's career is a bell curve, you'd have to say that Cav has shown himself to be head and shoulders above all other sprinters in history. Even if he's dropped off from his absolute peak now, you don't win 3 sprint stages in the Tour de France without still being at the top level...

It's the apparent inconsistency that's frustrating isn't it? 2010 Cav would probably have been relegated too. It does appear as though the commissaires develop an impression of a rider and allow that to affect their judgement in these sorts of situations. Cycling's rules have always been pretty...

Chapeau Cav! Philipsen obviously disappointed to be out-sprinted but he can't have a serious complaint about that finish. Neither he nor Merlier were impeded by Cav, Merlier was done and already passed, and Philipsen had plenty of space to sprint into and no need to veer into Cav. They need to...