Teams & Riders Mark Cavendish Discussion Thread

[EvansIsTheBest]

I would guess the number of football players who scored 100 goals in their career is easily in the thousands, maybe tens of thousands; 100 wins for a pro-cyclist has got to be much rarer.

Oh yeah, and by the standards of some people in this forum, Cavendish isn't even British.

ATM with Petacchi's retirement, Boonen is the only other active rider with 100+ wins. Greipel will get there pretty soon as he is at ~95 wins. Cavendish is literally years ahead of Petacchi and even Boonen in terms of reaching that milestone though.

 

[IndianCyclist]

The greatest SPRINTER of all time

 

[Gloin22]

ATM with Petacchi's retirement, Boonen is the only other active rider with 100+ wins. Greipel will get there pretty soon as he is at ~95 wins. Cavendish is literally years ahead of Petacchi and even Boonen in terms of reaching that milestone though.

Greipel celebrated 100 wins at Tour Down Under this year I think.

 

[rickshaw]

Cav is really pyssed!

" I couldn't stop at that point because the commissaires wouldn't have let me get back on."

After years of complaints that Cav gets towed over the big climbs the poor little fella is forced to ride the whole way. In the cold. Like everybody else. Imagine the commissaires watching him the whole way! How unjust is that? If the officials do that again my bet is he'll pack up and go home. That'll show 'em.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

If Cav really thinks he can't win the Vicenza stage, and it is a hard climb, then he might be best trying to get in the breakaway and take the 2 intermediates.

Would be very funny watching who actually did some chasing with OPQS pulling.

 

[Holtend]

Cavs had a great Giro, I didn't think he would finish it, so full credit to him and not sure what was going on with the intermediate Sprint today but he won it 3 times.

 

[Afrank]

Yep, good Giro for Cav. Glad to see him get red after missing out on it so narrowly last year. He finally has won a points jersey in all 3 GT's now.

With this Giro, that makes 41 GT stage wins (23 in Tour, 15 in Giro, and 3 in Vuelta).

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

5th rider to get all 3 points jerseys, and when you look at this Giro route, compared to the others he's ridden, it's scarcely believable he did it this year.

 

[coinneach]

5th rider to get all 3 points jerseys, and when you look at this Giro route, compared to the others he's ridden, it's scarcely believable he did it this year.

Who were the other 4?

 

[Cyivel]

Who were the other 4?

Jalabert, Merckxx, Petacchi and Abdu.

 

[spalco]

He should put some effort in the Vuelta next to get his stage wins there into the double digits as well - another nice achievement that he surely wouldn't share with many other cyclists.

 

[Cyivel]

He should put some effort in the Vuelta next to get his stage wins there into the double digits as well - another nice achievement that he surely wouldn't share with many other cyclists.

He'd be the first.

 

[Franklin]

At this rate after next season Waterloo Sunrise and I will agree on Cav

Seriously though, unless something tragic will happen he's going to smash the previous records.

 

[spalco]

He'd be the first.

Alright then, even more reason to go for it.

He's probably got a lot of pressure from the sponsors to focus on the Tour though.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

His highest ever GT GC finish in this race. Setting himself up nicely for a switch in focus in his later career, ala Kelly.


Ahem.

Can't see him riding many Vuelta's - he only rode the one he did because HTC had to let the B team have a go that year in Italy and wanted Cav to go to California for the sponsors.

 

[Walkman]

The guy is built to sprint. I personally don't really like pure sprinters but this guy is awesome. Really hoping he will shift path lter in his career and focus on other things than just bunch sprints.

 

[The Hitch]

Hes a year younger than wiggins when wiggins got his first top 100 in a gt so theres still hope

As for Vuelta he also rode the 2011 Vuelta though pulled out on stage 3. No worlds or olympics this year so no harm in going for a few of the first week stages.

 

[Granville57]

The guy is built to sprint.

Yup. Check out my posts from the last two pages of this old thread from 2011:
http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=11654&highlight=cavendish&page=3

Some interesting insight (from the references, not me) as to what makes Cav so incredible.

Specifically:
http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showpost.php?p=402954&postcount=23

and

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showpost.php?p=403249&postcount=31

Legend.

 

[coinneach]

Jalabert, Merckxx, Petacchi and Abdu.

Might he just been the first clean rider to achieve this feat?

 

[The Hitch]

Any chance his achievement makes the UK news?

 

[GPdesAmeriques]

The guy is built to sprint. I personally don't really like pure sprinters but this guy is awesome. Really hoping he will shift path lter in his career and focus on other things than just bunch sprints.

I read he wants to return to the track for Rio 2016.

 

[Red Rick]

He should put some effort in the Vuelta next to get his stage wins there into the double digits as well - another nice achievement that he surely wouldn't share with many other cyclists.

He´d share it with nobody I think

 

[Red Rick]

Hes a year younger than wiggins when wiggins got his first top 100 in a gt so theres still hope

As for Vuelta he also rode the 2011 Vuelta though pulled out on stage 3. No worlds or olympics this year so no harm in going for a few of the first week stages.

He made the top 100?

Maybe one day, in a tour with pathetic mountains, barely any time trials and with bonifications brought back................

 

[Granville57]

Any chance his achievement makes the UK news?

That depends. How popular is Peta Todd this week?

 

[Boardslide]

That depends. How popular is Peta Todd this week?

Made the BBC news at 6 & 10 o'clock