The New World Champion! Appreciation

[Izzy eviel]

Just imagined what Cav can do on course designed with him in mind - The Olympics.

As any WC ever gone onto win Olympic gold?

 

[meandmygitane]

Golden helmet and WC-jersey would be a sweet combination indeed.

 

[Galic Ho]

As for the Aussies, really strop moaning, go back and relearn how to play cricket, how to play Rugby and how to Swim. If it wasnt for Cuddles Aussie sport would really suck.

(Although I do think ull clean up on the track at Olympics )

Bahahahaha. What a trolling sad whining Pom you must be. Only a Pom would moan this badly and mistakenly assume everyone stating the obvious is an Aussie. Newsflash genius our best rider won a Grand Tour and didn't get beaten by Cobo! Bahahaha. Better it was actually entetaining when he won and a nice cha ge. Showed originality and flair, something you boy Cav needs more of. Nothing original in a mass bunch sprint.

How about all the poms step up and deny they are cheering because a Brit won. Admit it, if anyone else won this still would have been a crap WC. To the OP, how about you go watch the Moto GP. Go watch world surfing. Or watch an actual FINA event. Australians have baths dude, aka, we can swim and aren't afraid of the water. Remind me when a British male swimmer wins anything....EVER! Step up and come down under and go for a swim and lets see if you make it back to shore without a lifesaver rescuing your idiot ****. Or maybe you can just cheat or dope like all those Poms magically finding form for 2012! I wonder how they do it??? Or maybe we can copy your footballers and choke, choke and then cheat on our partners with $2 hoes and beg the courts to gag the papers!

No no no! Every Australian should emulate Mark Cavendish and when that fails that most awesome F1 guy Lewis Hamilton! Two grade A pommie tools! See...I can troll better than you....now crawl back to you hole and quit making dumb assumptions. Australia has won medals at every WC in the mens RR for the past 3 years. Britain has one and it was LAME. Deal with it and shut up.

Brits...overly dramatic and making a moutnain out of a mole hill.

 

[hatcher]

speaking of overly dramatic.

 

[just some guy]

Really should have a team GB appreciation thread - great team ride really.

Cav wining Meh personally but he finished off the work of the 7 "brits" really well and will be a very wining WC which will do wonders for the Sport not just in GB.

Course was turned out better than I thought watching the other races, but MEH really.

Anyway Congrats to Cav and GB

 

[spalco]

Just imagined what Cav can do on course designed with him in mind - The Olympics.

As any WC ever gone onto win Olympic gold?

Interesting question, comparing the lists:
- Bettini won the WC 2 and 3 years after the Olympics
- Henni Kuiper won the WC 3 years after the Olympics

Before that I don't see any correlations, although Cancellara and Indurain won the Olympic TT after winning the the TT WCs. And I'm not sure if before 1992 pros were allowed to participate in the Olympic road race, so it would have been impossible to win the Olympics after the World Championships.

Unless I missed something I think it would be a first if Cavendish manages to win gold while wearing the rainbow stripes.

 

[Maxiton]

It's difficult for me to think that if Gilbert won today, the people who are complaining wouldn't be cheering and talking about a great race. (Of course, with this parcours and Cav's team, it would have been amazing if anyone had beaten him.)

The best man won, deserved to win, it was a long and entertaining race, Cavendish is wearing the Rainbow jersey. End of story. Time for a bike ride. Chapeau!

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

speaking of overly dramatic.

The great sporting nation of Australia wants to start boasting about...surfing.

If it wasn't tragic, it'd be comic.

 

[roundabout]

1996 were the first pro OG in cycling.

 

[Mambo95]

Remind me when a British male swimmer wins anything....EVER!

At the 2011 Worlds GB's men won the same number of individual golds as Australia (one).

Best stick to surfing, eh

 

[HL2037]

Cavendish shoving his respect for the rainbow jersey by wiping his nose in it on the podium:

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Looks like he's kissing it to me...

 

[rhubroma]

A circular argument. Cavendish can't win on a worthy course if a worthy course is defined as one Cavendish can't win on.

Presumably some of the people in this thread think that Milan-Sanremo isn't a worthy race.

Oh, come on, don't berate me with nonsence that presumes to be inteligence. However “circular” my argument may have been.

Milan San Remo is not a hard course. It is long, but not hard.

PS: The proof is if we don't get another flat Worlds course, leave Milano San Remo out of the picture for a moment, he doesn't stand a chance at winning. That's the truth.

Gilbert does. That makes all the difference.

 

[ferryman]

The 'bookies' favourite......

A quick look at the CN homepage shows what most people expected - a full on bunch sprint.

Holm picks Cavendish to win Worlds title and

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/the-top-10-worlds-contenders

Cavendish was the bookies favourite not long after the race started. The only good thing about his win is that I now have more money in my acccount.

The number of smug/arrogant Brit posters out in force today is actually very amusing. A cycling backwater forever FFS but a little success and rule Brittania

 

[King Of The Wolds]

Cavendish was the bookies favourite not long after the race started. The only good thing about his win is that I now have more money in my acccount.

The number of smug/arrogant Brit posters out in force today is actually very amusing. A cycling backwater forever FFS but a little success and rule Brittania

I really don't understand the motives of this little agenda of yours, but regardless of them, a little success...?

- Most successful nation at this year's WCs
- Just had 2 men on the podium of a GT
- Cooke and Pooley both have WC and Olympic medals of the past few years, plenty of them gold
- Have won at least 1 stage at the last 9 GTs, spread across 4 riders
- Have just completely controlled a WC road race from start to finish

GB are a major cycling nation and their riders have a chance of winning just about every major race going.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Cavendish was the bookies favourite not long after the race started. The only good thing about his win is that I now have more money in my acccount.

The number of smug/arrogant Brit posters out in force today is actually very amusing. A cycling backwater forever FFS but a little success and rule Brittania

A cycling backwater has just finished top of the medal standings at the World Championships. How embarrassing.

 

[Dr. Maserati]

Cavendish was the bookies favourite not long after the race started. The only good thing about his win is that I now have more money in my acccount.

The number of smug/arrogant Brit posters out in force today is actually very amusing. A cycling backwater forever FFS but a little success and rule Brittania

Just to be clear - I am not British.
Nor do I begrudge the Brits their moment.

British cycling may have been a backwater a short time ago, but with the number of riders they have coming through now I don't think thats the case any longer.

 

[Afrank]

A well deserved victory, congrats to Cav. He will be a good world champion.

 

[Anonymous]

A cycling backwater has just finished top of the medal standings at the World Championships. How embarrassing.

And the WC has been won by a 'One Trick Pony' who has won on both the track and road.

Maybe I misunderstand the figure 'one'.

GIRFU you ungrateful gits. Respect where respect is due might be a sore card to lay, but......crack-on until you've satisfied yourselves that Cav wasn't a worthy winner.

 

[goggalor]

Wonder if Cav will break out the Rainbow skinsuit next year. Or a rainbow helmet lid, that would be cool.

 

[lanternrouge]

Bahahahaha. What a trolling sad whining Pom you must be. Only a Pom would moan this badly and mistakenly assume everyone stating the obvious is an Aussie. Newsflash genius our best rider won a Grand Tour and didn't get beaten by Cobo! Bahahaha. Better it was actually entetaining when he won and a nice cha ge. Showed originality and flair, something you boy Cav needs more of. Nothing original in a mass bunch sprint.

How about all the poms step up and deny they are cheering because a Brit won. Admit it, if anyone else won this still would have been a crap WC. To the OP, how about you go watch the Moto GP. Go watch world surfing. Or watch an actual FINA event. Australians have baths dude, aka, we can swim and aren't afraid of the water. Remind me when a British male swimmer wins anything....EVER! Step up and come down under and go for a swim and lets see if you make it back to shore without a lifesaver rescuing your idiot ****. Or maybe you can just cheat or dope like all those Poms magically finding form for 2012! I wonder how they do it??? Or maybe we can copy your footballers and choke, choke and then cheat on our partners with $2 hoes and beg the courts to gag the papers!

No no no! Every Australian should emulate Mark Cavendish and when that fails that most awesome F1 guy Lewis Hamilton! Two grade A pommie tools! See...I can troll better than you....now crawl back to you hole and quit making dumb assumptions. Australia has won medals at every WC in the mens RR for the past 3 years. Britain has one and it was LAME. Deal with it and shut up.

Brits...overly dramatic and making a moutnain out of a mole hill.

Aussie with one eye shock!

 

[Echoes]

Milan San Remo is not a hard course. It is long, but not hard.

[...]That's the truth.

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=12667&highlight=Sanremo
That's the truth.

And when he won Sanremo, I was wondering what ****, huh, OK against the rules of this forum.

 

[ferryman]

I really don't understand the motives of this little agenda of yours, but regardless of them, a little success...?

- Most successful nation at this year's WCs
- Just had 2 men on the podium of a GT
- Cooke and Pooley both have WC and Olympic medals of the past few years, plenty of them gold
- Have won at least 1 stage at the last 9 GTs, spread across 4 riders
- Have just completely controlled a WC road race from start to finish

GB are a major cycling nation and their riders have a chance of winning just about every major race going.

No agenda. Just responding to the arrogance of guys like you with a Brit superiority complex or worse

 

[hatcher]

No agenda. Just responding to the arrogance of guys like you with a Brit superiority complex or worse

Yet you don't do the same for other nations. That's an agenda.

 

[Midnightfright]

Yet you don't do the same for other nations. That's an agenda.

It may not be as obvious with other nations as there are a lot of British posters on here. I think its just alot of pride and joy at what is a huge stepping stone for British cycling that is rubbing people up the wrong way along with a couple of ppl geniunely being smug. I certainly don't feel its much different than the comments being made by aussies fans after Cadels tour win