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Mark Cavendish made it 3 stage wins to date in this years Tour de France this afternoon.

I'd love it if he managed to get to Paris and to win the last stage in the French capital whilst collecting the Green Jersey in the process.

The amount of stages he wins seems to have a direct relationship with how much of a wanker he becomes after each stage.

Wiggins has been the real impressive British rider.

Spot the difference

durhamshrimp wrote:The amount of stages he wins seems to have a direct relationship with how much of a wanker he becomes after each stage.

Wiggins has been the real impressive British rider.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/others ... -wins.html

He does seem to be a bit of a gob shite.

and another win and takes the green Jersey

Wiggins is in 5th

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8152489.stm

Good article in the paper today on how the team prepare the tactics so that Cav can get the win, even when all the plans go up in the air because the map is wrong.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/cycling/article6715504.ece

CASS wrote:

durhamshrimp wrote:The amount of stages he wins seems to have a direct relationship with how much of a wanker he becomes after each stage.

Wiggins has been the real impressive British rider.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/others ... -wins.html

He does seem to be a bit of a gob shite.

He's been like that since his schoolboy days when he was hailed by many as being potentially the greatest GB rider of all time. Fame has gone to his head a bit (like other sportsman and women)


Some said he had more to prove living in the IoM and having to come to the mainland to race every weekend. It's cost his parents a fortune but now it's payback time.

Again, my apologies to all those for whom this is exciting but to me it's like a team getting 103 corners in a game but losing 4-0.

Or the athlete from Mauritius in the 5,000 metres who races off like a greyhound to get miles in front, waving to the world, and then drops back to be lapped 14 times by the rest of the field.

Explain to me why I'm wrong to think this way.

I don't really get it but he is British and has the chance of achieving something.

I don't get why they ride 100 miles and then just have a sprint at the end surley they could just have a 10k race as for 95 miles they just all sit together yesterday there was a protest and there was no racing at all for half of it but it prob still seemed like a normal day.

How does the winner manage to build up a lead over the tour as they all finish together most days do they just have to try and pull out a lead on the mountain stages?

durhamshrimp wrote:Spot the difference

Err - ones got a black nose the other is more skin coloured

Oh and ones got a large red helmet the other one has ...

shrimper wrote:Again, my apologies to all those for whom this is exciting but to me it's like a team getting 103 corners in a game but losing 4-0.

Or the athlete from Mauritius in the 5,000 metres who races off like a greyhound to get miles in front, waving to the world, and then drops back to be lapped 14 times by the rest of the field.

Explain to me why I'm wrong to think this way.

It can't really be simplified like football or a running race can. There are many different goals and achievements to be aimed for in the tour, stage wins is one of them. Cavendish is a rider who goes for stage wins. The first sentance here is the most important one though, you can try and simplify it to compare it to a sport you do understand but it doesn't really work like that i'm affraid. If your 5000 meters was held over three weeks and took place beetween sprinters, long distance runners etc then it would be slightly comparible.

durhamshrimp wrote:[If your 5000 meters was held over three weeks and took place beetween sprinters, long distance runners etc then it would be slightly comparible.

Very good response, thanks durham.

I still can't get excited about it - though I absolutely admire the sheer physical prowess of all of them - but that helps me put it in a bit more relevant context.

shrimper wrote:

durhamshrimp wrote:[If your 5000 meters was held over three weeks and took place beetween sprinters, long distance runners etc then it would be slightly comparible.

Very good response, thanks durham.

I still can't get excited about it - though I absolutely admire the sheer physical prowess of all of them - but that helps me put it in a bit more relevant context.

I was watching it today on Eurosport and I was actually thinking that if I didn't follow it, and just tuned in, it would make absolutely no sense as to what they were doing with it being a relatively flat stage.