How fast cavendish sprint

We're not robots. You have to have the physical strength to react to things. You don't necessarily want to take control, and the speed will be dictated by how many surges you get from the other teams. You don't want to go so fast they can't come, but you want to be just ahead so you're in control.

The strongest cyclist in the world isn't as strong as two guys, let alone nine. Seldom has the pace dropped below 30mph. It is hot, midsummer in the south of France. You are tired, thirsty and being bumped on all sides. And the brutal stuff is yet to start. If you're grabbing your brakes with one hand in those conditions, it's not going to end well.

It leaves the race open to counter-attacks and chances for small breaks to form that you can't control, because they've been sheltering in the wheels all day. There will be odd riders who attack in that, but you'll never get a full breakaway forming unless it's a difficult last 10km, in which case it probably won't be a sprint anyway.

It used to be that one team controlled it and other teams were fighting behind for that sprinter's wheel. Nowadays you've probably got five or six sprint teams, all vying for control of the peloton. So whereas before I had eight guys ahead of me, all controlling it with me in ninth, now you've got six teams on the front row.

That doesn't just make you seventh; you've got six lots of nine which is 54 riders ahead or around you. This is both your job and your greatest skill, the few minutes of the greatest stress you can experience. How to control the adrenaline, hold your nerve with wheels an inch in front of yours and an inch behind, keep a grip on the endless calculations?

The weather, the terrain, the other riders - it's not just me against another rider, it's my team against 20 other teams. So it's 20 things to the power of 20 that can happen. There are infinite things that can happen. I get quite the opposite - I get quite clear-headed. I know what I have to do. It's like a procedure. That's what it's like for most of the guys, but they rely on raw power. I rely on - and always had to - on my road craft and instinct.

So it's ingrained in me. Going through a set of patterns to get the best possible result. Sometimes it doesn't work, because although you get the tactics right you physically can't do what you need.

But most of the time, it happens. The peloton has gone from band of brothers to angry swarm. Everyone is fighting for space, everyone is fighting for a wheel.

Forget any notions of solidarity. This is elbows-out war. You couldn't even hear the man in front. So we have a system where I call to my lead-out man Renshaw, he calls to the rider in front and so on.

We have five words we say in our team. It has to be 'stop' and not 'whoah', because 'whoah' could be confused with 'go'. With Mark Renshaw , the only thing I have to say is his name. Because he knows he will never be so close to the pavement that I can't get on his wheel.

If we're trying to move up the outside and I get cut off by another team, I'll shout 'Mark! It's the only thing it can mean. Can Cavendish, not renowned for stepping back from confrontation, swear in four major European languages? And that's not just me.

Every sprinter believes they are the only one who should be there, so how dare they fight you for it? This one is known as one of the most memorable and flamboyant post-up celebrations, which honored new team sponsor and American cell phone maker HTC. With his left hand pointing repeatedly at his new sponsor, it was a gesture that surely made his sponsors happy.

Fast forward to On this day, the only one able to keep up with Cavendish on the finish-line stretch was the camera person. With this win, Cavendish confirmed his status as the fastest sprinter at the time, while Mark Renshaw was labeled the best lead-out man in the business, without a doubt. Fast forward to minute Renshaw gets disqualified from the rest of the Tour after headbutting members from Garmin Slipstream while leading Cavendish into the win.

He has not won another points competition since. The road surface at the finish appeared to be smooth on Thursday, so it's unlikely there was a bump that caused the chain drop. And it's not the first time the Isle of Man rider has lost his chain, as this clip from a race in April shows:. It doesn't appear to be a safety concern since Cavendish is sitting up to celebrate and doesn't need to keep going.

But it's kind of weird to see him drop his chain. Meanwhile, Cavendish is closing in on Eddy Merckx's record of 34 Tour stage wins. Read the original article on Business Insider. Buddy Hield has connected on more 3-pointers through his first games than any player in NBA history. Michael Jordan was beside himself watching Kelly Oubre shoot a 3-pointer instead of run clock.

Penn State Twitter was an unpleasant place to be for James Franklin after a loss to Michigan, 4th loss in 5 games. A rear wing infraction deletes Hamilton's lap yesterday, leaving him to start last in today's spring qualifying race. World champion Lewis Hamilton on Friday dominated qualifying at the Brazil Grand Prix but then found himself facing demotion to the back of the grid for Saturday's sprint race after Mercedes were placed under investigation for a potential breach of technical rules.

A chaotic end to the game, Brian Asamoah's big day and other headlines from Oklahoma's loss to Baylor on Saturday. Paris Hilton was the most beautiful bride! Soon, the uphill kilometres arrive, which Cavendish has always struggled with but most of the time has ended up conquering. His coach recently told Cycling Weekly that in the build-up to the Tour they only focused on sprint training rather than adding climbing into the mix. Time was of the essence and they were trying to get him to win a stage, not make it to Paris.

On the other side of the Alps lies more opportunities for sprint wins, but the year-old shuts down this line of questioning and won't get carried away with looking ahead. And tomorrow, I think with the distance [km], it's not going to be an easy day tomorrow. I think it's two days that breaks have nearly made it, tomorrow's kilometres, punchy at the finish. I think that hard day is at hand before we even hit the mountains.

This second stage win didn't result in a sobbing Cavendish, overwhelmed with emotion and hugging any human being who happened to be in his general vicinity at the end of stage four.

He says this time it was less of a shock, he'd had the confirmation two days before that he could do it, and for all the talk of records and everything else that follows the Tour's best-ever sprinter, his respect and love for the race as well as how he cherishes each victory cannot be doubted.

This means just as much as Tuesday's [stage four], and it means as much as that win 13 years ago. I'm Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor. I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.

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