sore loser

[poshman]

Cavendish is blaming the aussies next time son take the lead from the start and then peddle faster than every other cyclist then you will win.. simples

 

[alumni]

Cavendish is blaming the aussies next time son take the lead from the start and then peddle faster than every other cyclist then you will win.. simples

Actually he was mostly right.

No team would work with GB to catch the breakaway.

 

[joinerjohn]

No team would work with GB to catch the breakaway.

Hmm So Mark Cavendish needs help to maintain the pace ?

Nah,, simple fact, he was still tired from the opening ceremony, because he stayed up way past his bedtime.

 

[alumni]

No team would work with GB to catch the breakaway.

Hmm So Mark Cavendish needs help to maintain the pace ?

Nah,, simple fact, he was still tired from the opening ceremony, because he stayed up way past his bedtime.

Well, yes, there is that too.

 

[oilboffin]

Cav was right Aussies will do anything for us to lose even if they lose swell
They think they have a god given right to take all prizes I hate them worse than yanks

 

[sooey]

All of the other teams knew exactly what would happen if they worked to catch up with the breakaway groups.
In fairness why should they all pull their b*ll*x out only to see Cavendish shoot off into the distance in the last few hundred yards?
He was a victim of his own incredible success.

 

[joinerjohn]

Did Mark Cavendish, not see the breakaway group, when they actually broke away? Couldn't he and his team mates not have tried to keep up with them?

 

[sooey]

I don't really know much about the sport, but it seems that Cavendish's team mates were there to try to make the running, which they did as best they could. But they were knackered when the main breakaways happened because there weren't enough of them in the event to do it properly. Teams in the tour de france are much bigger.

 

[alumni]

I don't really know much about the sport, but it seems that Cavendish's team mates were there to try to make the running, which they did as best they could. But they were knackered when the main breakaways happened because there weren't enough of them in the event to do it properly. Teams in the tour de france are much bigger.

And on the radio so kept informed of things.

Unfortunately this time the breakaway actually worked together to stay out front. With the peleton just going along for the ride, GB did remarkably well to keep it up for so long.

Wiggins also had to be mindful of the individual time trial to come on Wednesday.

 

[longdogs]

I've read the story five times and still don't understand what
he's on about. How do you lose a race because your rivals are negative? Can someone explain please.

 

[pred]

I've read the story five times and still don't understand what
he's on about. How do you lose a race because your rivals are negative? Can someone explain please.

Lets say there are ten teams, each team wants to get their sprinter in the right place in the last 300yds or so, but the fly in the ointment is Cav. in a sprint the other teams sprinters will be going for silver and bronze because Cav. is the Mohamid Alli of the sprinting world, so no one would help team GB, also our lads couldn't cover every attack by themselves, i'm happy for the guy that got gold, at least he wasn't an Ausi or Yank, in a sprint finish he would have been nowhere. simples.

 

[petit_pablo]

Competitive road cycling is a complicated business to the layman. Its not so much an out and out race but a game of strategy. Different riders have different strengths and the team use these to their advantage. If you see the peleton working properly the riders constantly change their position within the peleton. The idea being that the pace is kept up and the sprinters can sit in and not work too hard until the final run in where they will break from the peleton and race for the win.
The majority of riders in the race know before they start that they wont be anywhere near winning a medal.

 

[FiremanT]

I didn't understand Cav's problem, although my son tried to explain. When I wathcged the womens 1400km, I began to get it. sort of. I have to say I had little interest at the outset, but became hooked.

 

[D_Hailsham]

When I watched the women's 1400km

I didn't think it was that long!!