(Presidential) Cycling Tour of Turkey [April 11th-April18th 2021]

[Samu Cuenca]

Just read he says he will definitely end his career next year.

He can still buy himself out of ISN and into DQS for 2022.

 

[Bolder]

I think DQS could even turn me into a winner.

That's got to feel good for Cav, a guy who as recently as 2018 or so I was kind of hoping would just go away. I take it all back! (well, most of it; he was pretty insufferable when he was on top). Hope he can build from here and win some bigger races this year.

 

[SafeBet]

Now one for Fabio, and later on a big one by Remco, and the Wolfpack's charity goals are fully met.

There's no charity for Hodeg though.

 

[SHAD0W93]

5 more wins to go!

 

[BlueRoads]

I honestly don't know what Hodeg's role is in the team anymore, or what exactly is the problem. He was part of the lead-out today... but that whole lead-out was very disorganized and he just left at some point... seemingly not at his limit. Didn't he want to go further? Did he not want to get into the way and feared he would? Was it just were he was supposed to drop? Is he afraid of sprints at this point? I haven't seen him seriously contesting one in recent times, anyway, and part of it then looked like he just didn't have the strength, but today was even weirder than before, like it's something in his head. No strength to be the top sprinter and no clear other role in the team? Álvaro

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOO, perfect lead out from Greipel haha

Like in the good old days.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Cavendish actually won, wtf

 

[jaylew]

I wonder if he'll call it a s**t small race now.

 

[Volderke]

I think DQS could even turn me into a winner.

you can be bold, but now you're bolder.

 

[jmdirt]

WOOHOO! Cav!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

"Philipsen jumped early and had a small gap, but I had enough to make up ground and I must say I was quite surprised at how quickly I came in the final meters of the stage."
Said Cav here : https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/56716156

 

[Andy262]

Great to see Cav get the win and did it in nice style. I thought he could have gone closer at Scheldepris but it looked like he didn't want to get in Bennett's way.

Back at DQS has turned him round. Ref BlueRoads post about Hodeg above, that was Cav last year at Bahrain. Total loss of confidence and will to compete.

Hope he gets a few more wins, and maybe a chance in the Vuelta.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Great to see Cav get the win and did it in nice style. I thought he could have gone closer at Scheldepris but it looked like he didn't want to get in Bennett's way.

Back at DQS has turned him round. Ref BlueRoads post about Hodeg above, that was Cav last year at Bahrain. Total loss of confidence and will to compete.

Hope he gets a few more wins, and maybe a chance in the Vuelta.

Nah he's going to the Tour and pulling a Petacchi to stun everyone 2016 style.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I've never been a Cav fan, but I have to say that I'm impressed. That wasn't mainly because of his train, he did a great job and had a great sprint. It's always nice to see an older guy who is able to leave the sport on his own terms.

 

[tobydawq]

Apparently, the last time Cavendish won and Greipel was third was on the final day of Post Danmark Rundt in 2012. That's a long time ago. The previous time was also on Zealand; at Worlds in 2011.

 

[BlueRoads]

I wanna go swimming.

 

[Bonimenier]

Cav wins! So nice to finally see him win again. It's been 1 day since his last victory.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Easy peasy

 

[JosefK]

Enraptured Kirby = another Cav win.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Did Greipel's finaal lead-out man take a bit of a side swipe at Philipsen there?

 

[Pricey_sky]

The floodgates are open!

Bit of a messy sprint there, this time it was Philipsen trying to use Greipel as a launch, but Cav just went round them both.

 

[tobydawq]

Fabio Jakobsen was close to the front today after having avoided the final chaos the first two days. He wasn't involved in the leadout, though.

 

[Red Rick]

Roglic saw the return of Cavendish coming which is why he gave up on sprinting in Pais Vasco already

 

[Tobi]

Amazing to have Cavendish back

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Lefevere again showing that he’s the smartest guy running a team: he got Cavendish for practically nothing, which means nice publicity at zero risk and a chance of huge publicity if it goes right. Now it’s going right and DQS get a thousand times the publicity they’d get from winning stages in Turkey normally. Lots of people hate Lefevere, but nobody doubts his cunning.

He was saying yesterday that they’d promised Hodeg the Giro, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Cavendish taking that role. Losing with Hodeg is much less valuable than losing with a resurgent Cav, coming off the back of a bunch of small wins. Winning with Cavendish there would be a publicity jackpot.