brun sweater wrote:
Cavendish is still very unexperienced. His positioning the other day was terrible.
it pretty much always is. However, the same can be said for most of the best sprinters at his age. He might come around in that respect (he also might not. we'll see)
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He did sprint well, but it isn't Cav's responsibility if he has a lead-out man in terms of positioning, he just has to follow the wheel in front of him.
Unless you're McEwen two years ago, you shouldn't expect to go from the middle of a high paced peloton, with 2km to the line, and still expect to have a chance of winning.
stemple wrote:
I just got a chance to watch the race, didn't think it was anything special. I think people (brits) thinking that Cav is an elite sprinter is like us Americans thinking that Hincapie could win the tour. Nationalism takes hold and you are unable to look at it without a bias. My feeling of Cav is that he is a sprinter at the level of a Robert Forster. Maybe one day he can become better but i just think he will be an also ran when he comes up against the best (at least most of the time) at the moment. Just my opinion.
I don't agree, I think he's an amazing sprinter, he just can't make it to the end of a race with the legs to show it.
doesnt that make him not such an amazing sprinter in road racing then?
I was thinking that myself. Like isn't that kind of a prerequisite to being an elite sprinter. And i know i am going to take a lot of flak for this but i just think that Cav is wildly overrated, for the meer fact that he is british.
Did I say road sprinter? No, I said SPRINTER
Macquet wrote:
"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race."
Deadpool wrote:
He did sprint well, but it isn't Cav's responsibility if he has a lead-out man in terms of positioning, he just has to follow the wheel in front of him.
That's the problem, he can't follow any wheels
I don't know if it's because he can't stand the pace or he's got no courage, but he is very rarely in the first 10 riders going into the sprint. On the occasions that he is, he does very well, he just needs to consistently get into the top 10 places in the last 500-1000 meters.
He was leading-out and didn't have any wheel to follow because of it and he still came 10th, as opposed to Cav who came 17th.
