Dekker_Tifosi said:Is Cavendish now definately past his prime? The way Viviani and Guardini outsprinted him today... ouch
Dekker_Tifosi said:Is Cavendish now definately past his prime? The way Viviani and Guardini outsprinted him today... ouch
Buffalo Soldier said:Past his prime? Sure. But don't reed too much in being outsprinted: this happened during his best years 2009-2012 too...
He clearly is not on his top form yet. I am very curious for the tour.
Netserk said:Got a great lead-out, jumped with 200m to go, yet got outsprinted by two 2nd rate Italian sprinters![]()
qwerty16 said:Was about to say the same. To get 3 wins here is pretty decent for him. He used to get outsprinted in ZLM Tour kind of races before racking up the wins in the Grand Tours.
Competition isn't much better these days either, apart from Kittel.
Buffalo Soldier said:Greipel 2014 isn't any better than Freire or Hushovd in 2010.
Kittel is indeed more competition.
Dekker_Tifosi said:Is Cavendish now definately past his prime? The way Viviani and Guardini outsprinted him today... ouch
webbie146 said:Cav won 4 stages, the green jersey, not a bad week huh![]()
Libertine Seguros said:Well, to be fair, given this was one of the races he described as "s*** small races" to discredit Greipel a few years ago, he should be winning a bunch of stages here, no?
I know, the field's better than it was four or five years ago, but still. Kinda funny to see him there.
Libertine Seguros said:Well, to be fair, given this was one of the races he described as "s*** small races" to discredit Greipel a few years ago, he should be winning a bunch of stages here, no?
I know, the field's better than it was four or five years ago, but still. Kinda funny to see him there.
Waterloo Sunrise said:He's been ill.
Love the past it comments. 28 year old who won more grand tour stages than anyone else last year despite getting ill before his major season goal.
Libertine Seguros said:I was meaning the field of the Tour of Turkey, not opposition in relation to Cav. When he called it a "s*** small race" Greipel was racking up the wins against Mattia Gavazzi, Fran Ventoso (with CarmioOro's backing, not Movistar's), Paco Pacheco, Michele Merlo, Kenny van Hummel, Angelo Furlan and a then-21-year-old Elia Viviani.
This year the sprinting field is much stronger than that, so winning multiple stages of it is less like shooting fish in a barrel than it was for Greipel with a full HTC train back in 2010.
There's a grand total of 4 stages for Cav there...Pricey_sky said:I've not studied the Vuelta route yet but there haven't been a great deal of flat stages there the last 2 years, It's a bad loss for his season already and if he's out for over 6 weeks it doesn't give him many options.
Netserk said:There's a grand total of 4 stages for Cav there...
Netserk said:There's a grand total of 4 stages for Cav there...