Who would win, Cancellara or Cavendish

[The Hitch]

Forget Renshaw Goss Cipolini Kittel Farrar Bolt and all the other sprinters.

Cancellara showed in Worlds and MSR he is going to be the sprinter to take on Cav.

 

[Panda Claws]

And sometimes, on a flat, even with under 1 k to go, entire team trains cant hold on to Cancellara. So how is Cav on his own going to do it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJNLMYpr2TM&p=373D13547C979A89&playnext=1&index=1

That video is amazing. It is wonderful to see all those riders stare at Cancellara in awe. It is like Paris-Tours this year when a few riders attacked the peleton and where followed by Gilbert. They did not notice that Gilbert was following them and after a few hundred m's they looked around and literally almost fell of their bikes.

 

[taiwan]

There's absolutely no way Brajkovic can handle this (the guy's got a barbed wire biceps tattoo, for God's sake):

That is an inspired shoop, really.

I'm sure this thread went up in the same week as the navy seals one. That was truly a renaissance for 5h1t, funny threads.

 

[Maxiton]

And sometimes, on a flat, even with under 1 k to go, entire team trains cant hold on to Cancellara. So how is Cav on his own going to do it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJNLMYpr2TM&p=373D13547C979A89&playnext=1&index=1

Yeah, good point. That has to be one of my all time favorite stage finishes. For a long time, in fact, I used that as my desktop image. (Resurrected for this post. )

This finish, though, is in my opinion a great illustration of exactly what happens when you pit the steady, high wattage output of a Cancellara against the sudden, super high, violent, but short burst output of a sprinter (or in this case sprinters ). Once Cancellara had a good jump on them it was all over. Too bad that doesn't happen more often, though I can see why it doesn't.

 

[greenedge]

I'm sure Cancellara will be utterly dominant next year.

I also think Wiggins and Gesink deserve to be included in the ring against Rasmussen and Brajkovic.

 

[McLovin]

If I would be a billionaire, I would pay each of them 1 million to see this and probably other events like this one. Maybe a downhill TT contest between Fabian and Savoldelli, or a five days stage race with Evans, Contador, Wiggins, Menchov, one of the Shlecks, Basso, Cancellara, and Cunego, just them, without any teammates.