The New World Champion! Appreciation

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

If Cavendish wasn't rated by the bookies who was the favorite? I am just curious.

Gilbert. But the place i bet with had him at only 50 cents more, the 2nd favorite.

 

[Ferminal]

If Cavendish wasn't rated by the bookies who was the favorite? I am just curious.

Gilbert/Sagan/Hushovd/EBH but Gilbert and Cav were more equal favourites ahead of the others in recent days.

 

[sublimit]

I still would have found it a boring race. In fact I fell asleep during the race and only woke up in the last 5km.

Roelandts came position 5.

Actually it was better than I expected, not worthy of a Worlds but a reasonable race for a pan flat parcours.

 

[180mmCrank]

All this talk about an easy course... Tell that to Wiggins, Froome and the rest of the GB guys ... They worked their backsides off today. It was a different course and it required no less courage or endeavor for the winner to prevail.

Cavendish will eventually go down as one of the greatest cyclists of all time and he is a worthy World Champion.

Hats off to the guy.

 

[El Pistolero]

All this talk about an easy course... Tell that to Wiggins, Froome and the rest of the GB guys ... They worked their backsides off today. It was a different course and it required no less courage or endeavor for the winner to prevail.

Cavendish will eventually go down as one of the greatest cyclists of all time and he is a worthy World Champion.

Hats off to the guy.

All the other guys were freewheeling in their wheels though For a decent pro this course is a piece of cake. Greg van Avermaet also said this was the first WC he didn't suffer at.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

All this talk about an easy course... Tell that to Wiggins, Froome and the rest of the GB guys ... They worked their backsides off today. It was a different course and it required no less courage or endeavor for the winner to prevail.

Cavendish will eventually go down as one of the greatest cyclists of all time and he is a worthy World Champion.

Hats off to the guy.

Cavendish may be a worthy World Champion, but the course was not a worthy World Championships.

The GB team worked their backsides off because nobody wanted to go to the finish with Cav unless they tired out his leadout (even though it didn't matter that they did in the end). It's no different to any other flat stage in a major race where you go "hats off to Siutsou, Grabsch and Reynes" since they held the break for 150km before the sprint.

Today's race was nothing out of the ordinary, just exactly the same as 100 different tedious flat races we get all year long, except a bit longer, and people were wearing different kits from normal.

 

[Mellow Velo]

I still would have found it a boring race. In fact I fell asleep during the race and only woke up in the last 5km.

You obviously have a lot in common with the entire Australian team.

 

[El Pistolero]

You obviously have a lot in common with the entire Australian team.

Haha, good one

With Renshaw in there it could have been gold though. No way would he have gotten dropped.

 

[jens_attacks]

hats off to cav

 

[SlowBloke]

Cav Cav Cav

Whinge, Whinge, Whinge - "Cav can't do this, Cav can’t do that. Everybody finished fresh as a daisy. Everybody let Cav win. It was so boring."

The team did a massive job today. Everybody knew the GB game plan well ahead of the race. No one came up with any sort of plan to derail it. GB rode a textbook race and Cav won.
If you must sound off, have a go at your own national team for not having a plan to stop Cav winning it.

GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV.

Yeah Baby!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Well done Cav, great to see an Englishman on the podium.





Hugh

Except....he's not English

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

All this talk about an easy course... Tell that to Wiggins, Froome and the rest of the GB guys ... They worked their backsides off today. It was a different course and it required no less courage or endeavor for the winner to prevail.

Cavendish will eventually go down as one of the greatest cyclists of all time and he is a worthy World Champion.

Hats off to the guy.

Well said.

As for some of the rest, Cav has enough motivation within to push himself next season. No need to throw more logs on the fire. Hitch is prolly enjoying watching this thread play out.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Whinge, Whinge, Whinge - "Cav can't do this, Cav can’t do that. Everybody finished fresh as a daisy. Everybody let Cav win. It was so boring."

The team did a massive job today. Everybody knew the GB game plan well ahead of the race. No one came up with any sort of plan to derail it. GB rode a textbook race and Cav won.
If you must sound off, have a go at your own national team for not having a plan to stop Cav winning it.

GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV, GB, CAV.

Yeah Baby!!!!

The whinge isn't that the other teams didn't have a plan to stop Cav. It's not even that Cav won.

It's that the course made it nigh on impossible for teams to formulate a plan other than a bunch sprint, which meant for boring racing until the final kilometre.

When we got to the bunch sprint, it didn't totally suit Cavendish but he's the best in the world and he had enough to take the win.

Didn't stop the other 265km being dull as dishwater though.

 

[LouieLouie]

UK fans are turning my dislike for Cavendish into a dislike for UK cycling in general. Ridiculous course and a one-trick pony who hides in the peloton 99% of the time as world champion. Seriously, that's a joke. Wiggins earned the stripes today, but sadly won't be the one wearing them.

 

[spalco]

The whinge isn't that the other teams didn't have a plan to stop Cav. It's not even that Cav won.

Oh please, of course to a large part it is. If Goss had won there would still be some complaining, but not nearly as much as this. I think there's more pages whining about the race once it was over than about the actual race itself in the race-thread.

 

[King Of The Wolds]

The course was fine and offered plenty of opportunities for the likes of Belgium, Italy and Spain to have things their own way. Unfortunately for them, Cummings, Froome and Wiggins were way too good for them. Just how good was Brad? Really astonishing stuff. If the Brits hadn't had these 3 riders in that sort of form, we'd have had attacks galore, action all of the place and you lot would have been saying what a great parcours the Danes had put on.

Anyway, all in all, a very worthy winner, from a very worthy team.

 

[SlowBloke]

The whinge isn't that the other teams didn't have a plan to stop Cav. It's not even that Cav won.

It's that the course made it nigh on impossible for teams to formulate a plan other than a bunch sprint,

Stop wasting your time spouting this bull. Impossible to formulate a plan, my ar$e.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Sneak preview of the Cav World Champion kit.

Not really aerodynamic...

 

[King Of The Wolds]

one-trick pony .

Here we go, this one again.

Given Cav's incredible talent, if you were his DS, what would you make him do? Let him go in long, solo breaks?

 

[SlowBloke]

UK fans are turning my dislike for Cavendish into a dislike for UK cycling in general. Ridiculous course and a one-trick pony who hides in the peloton 99% of the time as world champion. Seriously, that's a joke. Wiggins earned the stripes today, but sadly won't be the one wearing them.

Well mate, I've got some bad news for you. You will be hearing a lot about British cycling, and a lot from British cycling fans in the coming years.

May your ears bleed.

 

[euanli]

Calm down boys, lets have some restrain and not turn into Aussies.

 

[El Pistolero]

Here we go, this one again.

Given Cav's incredible talent, if you were his DS, what would you make him do? Let him go in long, solo breaks?

No one is complaining about Cav winning this

We're bad mouthing the course, not the rider who won. And Cav IS a one trick pony. That's not an insult to him, it is what it is.

 

[ksmith]

All the other guys were freewheeling in their wheels though For a decent pro this course is a piece of cake. Greg van Avermaet also said this was the first WC he didn't suffer at.

Yeah he came 175th, 9 mins out. Not a piece of cake for him

For all you people moaning about the course, it was the same for everyone. Cav won. Next year the course will be different.

Cavendish, World Champion- that has such a nice ring to it.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Oh please, of course to a large part it is. If Goss had won there would still be some complaining, but not nearly as much as this. I think there's more pages whining about the race once it was over than about the actual race itself in the race-thread.

OK, let's rephrase that.

*I* would still have been moaning if Goss or Greipel or whoever had won.

Seriously, that was one derny away from being a 270km keirin.

@KotW - the British team did a great job of controlling it. And therein lies the problem - it was too controlled to be entertaining. The parcours made it relatively easy to control (not many good platforms for attacks), but they still had to do the job of controlling it, which they did brilliantly. As this isn't wrestling, they're not beholden to be entertaining, and they deserved their win in the end, but if it isn't entertaining, we as fans watch in order to be entertained therefore we should be allowed to call it out for not being entertaining.

It wasn't Britain's fault the parcours was terrible, of course it wasn't. They did a brilliant job of maximising that parcours for their own goal, which was of course eminently achievable on that parcours. But it was still a terrible parcours.

The race was no different to a Tour de France flat stage, except slightly longer. And those are really, really dull too. Are you seriously going to say that that was an exciting race at any point except the final 3k?

 

[simonk]

Cavendish may be a worthy World Champion, but the course was not a worthy World Championships.

Sorry to say this, but imo this is just bull****. We have to have World Championships like this sometimes. Often, no. But they will come, thats just the way it is. Cav is the best sprinter in the world by far, and its only fair he gets the chance to win a World Championship. He wont get the chance the next years.