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rallybanana

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I found the Cavendish questions on road.cc website. The contestant got 8 questions right. Can you do better?

  1. Mark Cavendish’s introduction to competitive cycling was when he accompanied his younger brother to the children’s league at the National Sports Centre on the Isle of Man. What’s his brother’s name?
  2. To fund the cost of travelling abroad to race, Cavendish took a job at what kind of business establishment at the age of 16?
  3. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Cavendish won a gold medal for the Isle of Man in which track event?
  4. At the Tour de Suisse in 2010, which team organised a protest against Cavendish, after he was deemed responsible for a collision with their rider Heinrich Haussler?
  5. At the end of the 2009 Olympics in Beijing, Cavendish borrowed a silver medal from which of his teammates to try to get an upgrade on the flight home?
  6. At the end of 2011, Cavendish joined Team Sky on a three-year contract but left after just one season to join which other team?
  7. In 2013, Cavendish won the points competition at the Giro d’Italia by taking first place on two intermediate sprints on the final stage and winning the stage itself to overturn which rider’s 11-point lead?
  8. Although it was deemed too tough and hilly for Cavendish to handle in 2006, he competed the following year for the first time in what ProTour race, which he described as a “week-long school for suffering”?
  9. In 2016, Cavendish won the Madison with Bradley Wiggins at the world championships, then took silver in the Omnium at the Rio Olympics, a month after winning how many stages in the Tour de France?
  10. In 2021, Cavendish equalled the record set by Eddy Merckx when he achieved his 34th Tour de France stage win, despite completing the final descent with severe damage to which part of his bike?
  11. Cavendish joined Bahrain-McLaren for the 2020 season, after which former British Cycling coach became their team principal?

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Armchair Cyclist

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awavey said:
Should have been in contention for the main prize too imo
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Given that the Lifetime Achievement award is usually something for which there is a notable associated guest list, I strongly suspect that this was decided, and probably that Cavendish knew of it, long before the SPotY shortlist was decided, certainly before it was announced. So it would have been inappropriate for him to be up for a vote that happens simultaneously with such a celebration of him being broadcast.

And does he really deserve an "of the year" award? One WT win, three wins in all, 325th in PCS rankings, 12th of his team and 17th of GB riders. He did something remarkable this year, but that was the end of a 16 year accumulation, not a remarkable year.
 
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Armchair Cyclist said:
Given that the Lifetime Achievement award is usually something for which there is a notable associated guest list, I strongly suspect that this was decided, and probably that Cavendish knew of it, long before the SPotY shortlist was decided, certainly before it was announced. So it would have been inappropriate for him to be up for a vote that happens simultaneously with such a celebration of him being broadcast.

And does he really deserve an "of the year" award? One WT win, three wins in all, 325th in PCS rankings, 12th of his team and 17th of GB riders. He did something remarkable this year, but that was the end of a 16 year accumulation, not a remarkable year.
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Well we dont have many Brit grand tour stage winners thesedays, i think winning a stage at his age in the TdF, whether it was his record breaking one of just the first is a worth achievement to celebrate, it was a sporting achievement.

I can't remember who said it recently but an ex pro rider said if Cav had been Dutch, French or Belgian he'd have been lionised as a cycling god this year by them.

Instead us Brits are almost apologising because we might have had to give him two awards !?!?
 
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Armchair Cyclist said:
Given that the Lifetime Achievement award is usually something for which there is a notable associated guest list, I strongly suspect that this was decided, and probably that Cavendish knew of it, long before the SPotY shortlist was decided, certainly before it was announced. So it would have been inappropriate for him to be up for a vote that happens simultaneously with such a celebration of him being broadcast.

And does he really deserve an "of the year" award? One WT win, three wins in all, 325th in PCS rankings, 12th of his team and 17th of GB riders. He did something remarkable this year, but that was the end of a 16 year accumulation, not a remarkable year.
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At least he's getting an award. Pidcock won't be there.
 
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rallybanana said:
Cavendish has previously won the award. It wouldn't seem right giving him the award again for achieving a fraction of what he did in 2011.
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We're not saying he should have won, simply been on the shortlist, thats the recognition of the achievement this year, as the man himself says...


And btw Luke Littler (teenage darts whiz) is up for two awards, so this whole we can't possibly have people in two awards categories is gaslighting
 
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