Originally Posted by
ChamoisDavisJr
Your head is deceiving you. Did you watch the whole Tour? You know all the real powerful sprinters (and GC contenders) were out of it early because of crashes right? Cav has THE best leadout train in the Peloton pulling his old ass. The STARS aligned for that little prick. Cav's cleaning up in a severely reduced sprint field, hell if you watch his leadout Morkov sometimes has to SLOW down so Cav can come around him.
He stood up...Jesus.
It wasn't politics...ok...it's your head AND your eyes.
Watch the Lantern Rouge recap of this stage it will show overhead in slow motion how Cav lost to WvA. Here's a hint; he lost because of positioning (and if Wout didn't beat him Philipsen would have).
He stood up....oh boy
The only Stage better than this one, with WvA winning and preventing the Manx child from taking one of many records from a known doper (Merckx), was Sepp's win in Andorra.
It’s not his fault other younger contenders fell by the wayside and he can’t help getting older. He’s also not pretending that he won the Green jersey by himself. In every single interview he has given full credit to his lead out train. He simply got out of position this time as his lead out didn’t go to plan. But he still fully deserved the Green.
I fully agree no politics here. It was a straight fight but WVA nailed it on the day.