Cavendish.... might be spoilers if you aren't current on TdF Stages
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Cavendish has been giving all the praise to his team. He does have a top notch leadout train. But he's also more humble and gracious than I've seen in him before. But his ability to read the timing and openings is critical. He studies video of other races a lot to see where he can improve.
TBH, I never really liked Cav much before. The younger Cav seemed arrogant, snippy, often recklessly causing other people to crash, and taking ridiculous chances and then blaming everyone else when it backfired and he crashed. It's possible I was just misreading his passion for the sport and tendency to be emotional. Sometimes stuff gets taken out of context in the press, especially when the cycling press follows the Italian polemica approach toward reporting on cycling.
I don't know who this Cavendish guy is in the 2021 TdF, but I admire him.
I'm betting he'll make a great trainer, coach or directeur sportif if he wants to go that route.
Sorry to hear that. I've had migraines, cluster headaches and/or trigeminal neuralgia since I was a kid. Sucks. If you don't already have an emergency relief prescription for a migraine in progress, I can suggest a few OTC remedies, and one inexpensive and easily obtainable prescription med that work for me.Some folks get relief from blood pressure meds, especially metoprolol or other beta blockers. When it's bad enough I'll take a metoprolol and lisinopril. I don't need 'em for BP, just for migraine relief.In non-prescription stuff, I often find my worst headaches are triggered by sinus congestion. Real Sudafed can help. It's gotta be pseudoephedrine, not the substitute phenylephrine.Melatonin and GABA (an amino acid supplement) can help too.
TBH, I never really liked Cav much before. The younger Cav seemed arrogant, snippy, often recklessly causing other people to crash, and taking ridiculous chances and then blaming everyone else when it backfired and he crashed. It's possible I was just misreading his passion for the sport and tendency to be emotional. Sometimes stuff gets taken out of context in the press, especially when the cycling press follows the Italian polemica approach toward reporting on cycling.
I don't know who this Cavendish guy is in the 2021 TdF, but I admire him.
I'm betting he'll make a great trainer, coach or directeur sportif if he wants to go that route.
Sorry to hear that. I've had migraines, cluster headaches and/or trigeminal neuralgia since I was a kid. Sucks. If you don't already have an emergency relief prescription for a migraine in progress, I can suggest a few OTC remedies, and one inexpensive and easily obtainable prescription med that work for me.Some folks get relief from blood pressure meds, especially metoprolol or other beta blockers. When it's bad enough I'll take a metoprolol and lisinopril. I don't need 'em for BP, just for migraine relief.In non-prescription stuff, I often find my worst headaches are triggered by sinus congestion. Real Sudafed can help. It's gotta be pseudoephedrine, not the substitute phenylephrine.Melatonin and GABA (an amino acid supplement) can help too.
https://www.bikeforums.net/pills-ill...headaches.html
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There's also a small chance the Champs would be for #36.
DSM got a good run in or two. Bol couldn't close. I haven't been tracking what's left of them now and don't know if they'll still got all the cogs in their machine.
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I feel like kind of a dick as I root against Cav re: Merckx, but I'm doing it anyway.
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There have been some minor attempts for other teams to set up a lead out their sprinters, but no other team seems to be willing to put as many riders to the task as DQS. Not having a real GC contender is probably a big factor in this. DQS is built for stage wins, and have some serious firepower available.
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There have been some minor attempts for other teams to set up a lead out their sprinters, but no other team seems to be willing to put as many riders to the task as DQS. Not having a real GC contender is probably a big factor in this. DQS is built for stage wins, and have some serious firepower available.
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Yes, but to go back to a comment above, I do hope that this fact, combined with some anachronistic French notion of bike racing etiquette, doesn't cause other teams and other sprinters to half-arse it on the Champs-Elysees in a romantic tip-of-the-chapeau to Cav. That would spoil the record.
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I wouldn't have thunk that 2021 would be Cav's year of glory whilst at the same time, Sagan would have to slink off into the shadows. I thought that both were past their glory days, but that Sagan would maybe steal a stage if the stars aligned. Nope.
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Wonder what Cavendish's win tally would have been if he hadn't been suffering from his Epstein-Barr virus infection and had also ridden for DQS during those years.
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Ding! 34.
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Time to pay MICHAEL MØRKØV back with a stage win. That still leaves Stage 21 and Paris for the record breaker.
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MORKOV is a master, there is no doubt, but they won't give him the chance to win a stage until Cav breaks the record.
The leadout today was strange, Not textbook like the other day. But DQS has so much talent, they pulled it off anyway.
The leadout today was strange, Not textbook like the other day. But DQS has so much talent, they pulled it off anyway.
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After all there's still stage 21 in Paris.
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Seems that Cavendish probably wasn't feeling it on Stage 19 so them and the remaining sprinters just took the day off, and we got to see cat and mouse games from the breakaway group trying to decide who was going to finish 2nd. A bad racing day.
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Cav had a choice. (Well, he and his sport director. Let the big group go and sop up all the sprint points or work the D-QS team to the bone to control the break so Cav has a shot at #35 (and the risk of a crash, mechanical, etc. and having much of his green jersey lead evaporate). He probably has a few teammates thanking him right now. Tomorrow's the TT so in effect, a near day off for most of the team unless they want to show what they can do. Then it's Sunday, the march to Paris and the grand finale, the sprint down Champs d'Elisee (sp). All the team will be up for that one for sure and even more so since Cav sacrificed his chance two days before.
Cav has already made this team work very hard on a few stages. Two of his wins were on the back of insanely hard days for the team. Today it was far from a given that the team even could have produced a win for Cav but not even trying was the far safer bet. No other team even could have reeled in that huge lead group so all Cav had to do was finish inside the time limit. That and suit up again tomorrow,
Cav has already made this team work very hard on a few stages. Two of his wins were on the back of insanely hard days for the team. Today it was far from a given that the team even could have produced a win for Cav but not even trying was the far safer bet. No other team even could have reeled in that huge lead group so all Cav had to do was finish inside the time limit. That and suit up again tomorrow,
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What with the most boring GC race since the days of Big Mig, 60 mile ITTs, and EPO, Cav has been the story of this Tour. Not really for the racing. (The KOM has been by far the most interesting stage racing this year.) But dramatically, story-wise, it's been great to watch. This ride, this year, by this guy, is the classiest thing I've seen in years.
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if Cav wins on the Champs, he will be the greatest. Still cannot help but wonder if that team could put Alliphilipe in the yellow with a concerted effort (like focused on that from day 1). That's the other end of it that the team is working for Cav and has been for most of the Tour (as evidenced by his ******* up the mountains) not Alliphilipe
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if Cav wins on the Champs, he will be the greatest. Still cannot help but wonder if that team could put Alliphilipe in the yellow with a concerted effort (like focused on that from day 1). That's the other end of it that the team is working for Cav and has been for most of the Tour (as evidenced by his ******* up the mountains) not Alliphilipe
I know that he's had some occasional good results on some mountain stages but over the course of the tour, I don't think it's within Alaphilippe's ability to compete with the elite GC climbers
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Cav has already made this team work very hard on a few stages. Two of his wins were on the back of insanely hard days for the team. Today it was far from a given that the team even could have produced a win for Cav but not even trying was the far safer bet. No other team even could have reeled in that huge lead group so all Cav had to do was finish inside the time limit. That and suit up again tomorrow,
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And with Cav fully in the spotlight, those two get recognition they've never had before.
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Despite how positive I've posted about Cavendish here and other places, I don't think I've ever rooted for Cav or Quickstep. However Deceuninck - Quick Step and each individual of their team there at the TdF really deserve to be called the best team for the TdF. Their GC chances got blown away early so they have really rallied to protect and keep Cav in the TdF.
There have been one or two TdF's he didn't make the time cut and to do that while matching or breaking Merckx record will greatly shadow his achievement. Merckx retired about the time I was realizing people got paid to ride bikes. So to have someone tie or break his record in my lifetime is something.
No one else will probably come close while I'm alive. Though if Tadej Pogačar isn't just a flash in the pan, he's off to a good start and has years ahead of him. He's already got 6 in two TdF's. So maybe I'll see another before my grand depart.
There have been one or two TdF's he didn't make the time cut and to do that while matching or breaking Merckx record will greatly shadow his achievement. Merckx retired about the time I was realizing people got paid to ride bikes. So to have someone tie or break his record in my lifetime is something.
No one else will probably come close while I'm alive. Though if Tadej Pogačar isn't just a flash in the pan, he's off to a good start and has years ahead of him. He's already got 6 in two TdF's. So maybe I'll see another before my grand depart.
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Yes, but to go back to a comment above, I do hope that this fact, combined with some anachronistic French notion of bike racing etiquette, doesn't cause other teams and other sprinters to half-arse it on the Champs-Elysees in a romantic tip-of-the-chapeau to Cav. That would spoil the record.
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