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1 hour ago, Peter Layman said:

with the second one being in Paris

This what I think will happen.  He'll do 45 on the Champs-E.  Think the peloton will throw him a bone? 

Hopefully he makes it through the mountains. 

It's all coming together, a lot of his main competitors are already out or seem to be off pace.  A lot of sprint friendly stages this year and ones that he's won before.

If he pulls it off, this will be the Tour De Cav.  Most of the favourite (and Brit) GC contenders are also now out of the game. 

I'm not going to lie, I definitely thought his time had gone and he was painfully dragging out his retirement, but I'm genuinely surprised and pleased by this... 

 

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I don’t understand this cycling thing. But I do understand that Mark Cavendish is a superstar and should get a knighthood for his achievements which by anyone’s standards are quite remarkable and unlikely to be surpassed. And he looks like he might even surpass even those. An inspiration also I believe to masses of Manx born who are into the sport big time. That has to be a good thing.

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On 7/1/2021 at 11:53 PM, TheTeapot said:

The ITV4 crew are loads better than eurosport, it's on live everyday, although eurosport normally starts their coverage earlier, and there is an ITV highlights show at 7 everyday which is also on the very shit itv hub. 

 

I watch it on ITV4 and I think their commentary is pretty good.  (I was initially disappointed when they dropped the Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin commentary team some years ago, but I actually think Boulting, Miller and Kennaugh are now better than they were).

 

The one problem with ITV4 is that it's sometimes difficult to keep everything in context and know where everyone is, so I also follow it simultaneously on these two screens that are real-time (almost):  Tour de France - Live race (letour.fr)  and  Tour de France - Live race (letour.fr)

 

You can see where everyone is in terms of both time and on the stage profile.

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Catching up on some reading today and David Walsh had a mention for Cavendish in the Sunday Times sports supplement on 04 July (pp24 - 25).

 

He'd been talking to Pippa York (formerly Robert Millar) and she's clearly a great fan of Cavendish's.  York admires him because she doesn't regard him as part of a "system or manufacturing plant " like Team Sky or Ineos.  She's very much of the opinion that for a few years it didn't much matter who was leader of those teams - whoever it was would win the Tour.  (Not wholly sure I agree with that and she is perhaps slightly underestimating Wiggins, Froome, Thomas and Bernal - but who cares!  Give me Cavendish over them any day!)

 

Also a very exciting mountain-top finish today on stage 17.  Great final climb and well worth watching the highlights tonight or watching last 60 - 90 minutes on itv hub.  (Best to watch it not knowing the result if possible... )

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