Nice win, after a crash and a lesser sprint

A real missile.

Cavendish has beaten Howard and Kruopis, damn he is fast!

Maybe being former teammates, they're still on good terms

Cav is amazing. He can win with all sorts of different situations, with different sorts of leadout and in different types of sprints. Today's was a bit different, but Cav is not only the best sprinter of our generation, he's one of the most versatile. Agreed?

Yesterday's result from China. Pedersen keeps the leader
s jersey.

Tour of China I, Stage 4

1	Taiji Nishitani	JPN	Aisan	2h10'32"
2	Angelo Furlan	ITA	Christina Watches - Onfone
3	Alexander Serebryakov	RUS	Type 1 - Sanofi
4	Nick van der Lijke	NED	Rabobank CT
5	Ruslan Tleubayev	KAZ	CT Astana
6	Leonid Krasnov	RUS	RusVelo
7	Filippo Fortin	ITA	Type 1 - Sanofi
8	Sebastian Körber	GER	Nutrixxion - Abus
9	Aldo Ino Ilesic	SLO	Type 1 - Sanofi
10	Alexander Gottfried	GER	Nutrixxion - Abus

Top 4 in the GC all from Christina Watches

+1

That's because of the TTT on the first day.

Yeah, he just proved that he can actually win shit small races too.

Depends on what you mean by versatile. He can win just about any style of sprint, but that's because of pure speed more than anything. His win percentage drops off mightily when he isn't setup properly, but he can still manage to take a win or two (that few months in 09 when he could suddenly climb and won MSR excepted). When I think of a versatile sprinter I think of a Zabel or Freire (to name two recent ones, De Vlaeminck also comes to mind), I think of someone who has the ability to ride in any terrain other than the high mountains and put themselves in a position to win, and also someone who can win with a perfect leadout, who can hijack a perfect leadout, win with a strong kick out of chaos, etc. It doesn't really matter to them how it happens, but if they are in the front ranks with 200m to go, they've got a fantastic chance of winning. I'm not sure that's Cav. Cav certainly has a chance, but Greipel kicking his ass a couple times in the Tour when Cav was perfectly positioned on his wheel tells me Cav really, really prefers a train.

What race am I watching here? On Eurosport now.

GP de Wallonie

On Eurosport 2 it's the Tour of Britain.

Winds and Sky made a great final 20-30kms
House looks great for KoM

Top5 (at second look)
Cavendish
some garmin rider
Howard
Van Poppel
Downing

I'm gonna bet the Garmin rider is Van Hoff.

Yeah it was

Cavendish
Vanhoff
Howard
Van Poppel
Downing

Cav's takes GC lead
Only 20 or so riders in the front group after the spilt

That was a fast final

Was Tiernan-Locke in the front group?

And back to Eurosport 1 (at least in the Netherlands) for the GP Wallonie. Love these wednesdays, filled with cycling on tv!

he was, he was actually doing a lot of work on the run in

Yep