2011 Tour de France Stage 11: Blaye-les-Mines Lavaur 167.5 km

[woodie]

Looks like Cav has his old speed back.

That was a great finish

 

[cycladianpirate]

Cav in Green (I think)...

 

[Jamsque]

Cavendish
Greipel
Farrar
Galimzyanov
Hagen
Feillu
Rojas
Turgot
Ventoso

Cav takes green!

 

[jobiwan]

So all is back to normal now!

 

[ImmaculateKadence]

Looks like the missile reached its target. Good sprint for both Cav and Greipel. I think if Greipel weren't so much taller he would find a bit more of Cav's slipstream.

I'm loving the rivalry between these two, now that it seems to be more professional and less hostile.

And Garmin has to do a better job getting Farrar in position.

 

[superconfex]

back in your box silverback...the speedking is back(BACK)!

 

[myrideissteelerthanyours]

Cav got the leadout today. Great stage.

 

[El Pistolero]

How many times do these idiotic teams have to get bashed in a sprint to now they have no chance? Seriously lame...

 

[sublimit]

Greipel going well but not this time. Fantastic sprinting

 

[luckyboy]

Petacchi nowhere in this Tour.

 

[kanari]

Petacchi nowhere in this Tour.

probably DNF tomorrow...

 

[Jamsque]

Yeah, really disappointing from Ale-Jet, he was challenging Cav at the Giro.

 

[goggalor]

Greipel came from way back again. Thomas with a perfect leadout... for Renshaw. I seem to remember Cav whinging about people trying to bump him off Renshaw's wheel. Today it looked like Renshaw bumped EBH off Thomas'.

 

[El Pistolero]

Now they just need to rename the green jersey in the Cav jersey for the years to come. Even with so many hilly stages the point system still easily favors sprinters.

 

[woodie]

How many times do these idiotic teams have to get bashed in a sprint to now they have no chance? Seriously lame...

Don't bother commenting if your going to be so negative mate

 

[El Pistolero]

No, I'm just getting sick by other teams helping HTC and the only result is they getting owned by the HTC train. You'd think they know by now.

 

[maltiv]

Not that he would've won anyway but it's quite ****ed up that Renshaw can just push Edvald off his leadout like that. He can basically do whatever he wants since it won't lead to Cavendish getting disqualified anyway.

 

[superconfex]

Just said Cav was zipping his Shirt up at 500 mtrs

 

[Maxiton]

Cavendish in Green.

 

[Maxiton]

Just said Cav was zipping his Shirt up at 500 mtrs

His shoe caught in Rojas' wheel at 500 meters and he had to rebuckle it.

 

[sultanofhyd]

Now they just need to rename the green jersey in the Cav jersey for the years to come. Even with so many hilly stages the point system still easily favors sprinters.

It is supposed to be a jersey for sprinters!

 

[Jamsque]

Just said Cav was zipping his Shirt up at 500 mtrs

Shoe, not shirt. Apparently Feillu's wheel caught his shoe.

 

[spalco]

No, I'm just getting sick by other teams helping HTC and the only result is they getting owned by the HTC train. You'd think they know by now.

So what strategy would you suggest for OPL or Sky?

I don't understand what you're whinging about all the time. Cav is the best sprinter on the planet right now, so naturally he wins more than anybody else too. But you want them to just give up?

There's no strategy in the world that could have kept Contador from winning the Giro this year, because he's simply the best, same goes for Cav in the Tour.

 

[sublimit]

Kind of like to see Petacchi get a stage in the last week, he never complains and would own Greiple if on his usual form. Not quite on it at the moment.

 

[woodie]

No, I'm just getting sick by other teams helping HTC and the only result is they getting owned by the HTC train. You'd think they know by now.

Maybe they realised if they didn't help they would have 0 chance to win as well, they blew HTC's train but Renshaw and Cav were just too good