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The Manx Missile by TheManxMissile
TheManxMissile
@Shonak - Not that ambitious, just well organized. Ah, the joyfulness of youth.
@bbl - Didn't know that! Hopefully you weren't in charge of potentials as i've had to alter many of them...
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@Jsea - Thanks

1985 - 2005


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Born in Douglas, Capital of the Isle of Man, on May 21st 1985 a young Cavendish did not follow the normal path of the pro cyclist. His first bike racing was done on a BMX at Douglas National Sports Center. The story is known of his first race, where he wasn't just last but was absolutely stone dead last. His competitive spirit forced him to return another day, except this time he was the one out front.

The proper racing began informally at age 12 with Mountain Bikes. He was already beating his mates, and their mates. Then older kids as well. Around this time he met David Millar, who was the top British Pro at the time. It was Millar who provided that spark to pursue cycling as a genuine career.

After leaving school Mark worked in a bank for two years to save up enough money to go and chase down his dream. From there he went a did amateur racing all over the UK and Northern Europe, funded by those two years of hard work. He quickly learned his style of aggressive sprinting and used it to rack up a number of results.

He was soon bought into the brand new Olympic Development programme, headed by Dave Brailsford. Mark was always up against the odds in the system. Unless he was actually racing he couldn't produce the efforts needed to impress the staff. On more than one occasion he was on the edge of being kicked out. Luckily when he did race he was a cut above the rest and could save his place in the programme. The highlight being a 2nd place in the Junior Nationals.

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2004 took him to an amateur team sponsored by Persil, along with a couple of others from the Olympic programme. In the season he took two wins on the road but was doing more and more track racing with eyes on World Championships in 2005. He raced Madison with Rob Hayles and together they took home a Gold Medal! He also won the European Points Race title in the same year.

Team Sparkasse were looking after him through the 2005 season on the road, they were T-Mobiles partner/development squad. On the road Mark win the UK Crits National title as well as a stage of the Tour of Berlin, a major U23 race. He was ready to take a step forwards and that brings us to 2006. Still with Team Sparkasse but now with serious expectations to perform and win. Do well enough and the senior T-Mobile Team awaited, do poorly and the dream might be over.

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Edited by TheManxMissile on 09-03-2014 12:37
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sutty68
Something tells me we are in for an exciting ride with this story, Good Luck mate Smile
 
TheManxMissile
Pre-Season 2006


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Calendar
January
Jacobs Creek Tour Down Under2.HC17th-21st
February
Tour of Qatar1.25th-10th
Tour of Langkawi2.HC23rd-4th
Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne1.126th
March
Driedaagse West Vlaanderen2.12nd-4th
Profonde van Drenthe1.19th
Tour of Taiwan2.110th-16th
GP San Guiseppe1.219th
E3 Prijs1.HC23rd
Driedaagse De Panne2.HC27th-30th
April
Circuit de la Sarthe2.13rd-6th
Scheldprijs Vlaanderen1.HC4th
Ronde um Koln1.19th
Brabanste Pijl1.HC11th
Rund am Duren1.216th
Nidersachsen Rundfahrt2.125th-29th
May
Rund um den Henninger turm Frankfurt1.HC1st
4 Jours Dunkerque2.HC4th-8th
Tour of California2.HC13th-20th
Bayern Rundfahrt2.HC23rd-27th
Talinn-Tartu1.126th
SEB Tartu GP1.127th
June
Tour de Rijke1.13rd
Ronde van Midden-Holland2.18th-10th
GP Berlin1.110th
Ster Elektroer2.114th-17th
Tour of Slovenia2.114th-17th
Halle-Ingooigen1.120th
NC'sNC\\\\\24th-26th
July
Tour of Quinghai Lake2.HC13th-25th
Sparkassen Giro Bochum1.129th
August
Deutschland TourUWT1st-9th
Tour of Elk Grove2.12nd-4th
Rund um die Hainleite1.112th
Dutch Food Valley Classic1.117th
HEW CyclassicsUWT19th
Post Danmark Rundt2.HC22nd-27th
Rotterdam-Antwerp2.131st-1st
September
Paris-Brussels1.HC8th
GP Fourmies1.HC9th
Tour of Britain2.19th-16th
GP di Prato1.117th
Rund Sebnitz1.218th
Circuit Franco-Belge2.127th-30th
October
Sparkassen Munsterland Giro1.13rd
Paris-ToursUWT7th

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VoetsT
Good luck with this.
I will definitely follow, because cav is one of my favorite riders Grin
 
Jesleyh
Those sprinters have 50 HI? That's weird Shock

Curious what Cav can do in 2006 Grin
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cunego59
Jesleyh wrote:
Those sprinters have 50 HI? That's weird Shock


I suppose they're track riders, maybe. Anyway, that's a packed calendar, good luck Smile
 
baseballlover312
I didn't make stats for them so don't blame me. Pfft
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547984
What's with the low resistance?
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baseballlover312
Wait I just forgot dammit thanks for ruining my NSOTM chances for March. Angry Pfft
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TheManxMissile
@Voets - Cool
@Jesl - Track sprinters. Probably not much until late season
@Cunego - Track sprinters exactly. That's not all for Cav's obviously
@bbl - Nope, it's always your fault now. Don't worry i havn't won anything since the September comp
@Code - No idea

Jacobs Creek Tour Down Under - Part 1


Squad: Parinussa, Cavendish, Flammang, Honstein, Dudek, Owczarek, Clancy
Cavendish to lead the team with the whole focus around sprinting and breakaways. Early season though so not much form and some solid opposition could make for a tough week. At least the weather's nice!

Stage 1
De Matteis (TEN), Scheirlinckx (JAR) and Borisov (ODM) comprised the days breakaway. Nothing eventful and all caught with 15km to race

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3KM to go - Flammang and Clancy are pacing Cavendish on the left, it's not going well. Down the middle is KNF, then it's PER and finally MRM pacing on the right hand side

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FINISH - The Sparkasse "train" just couldn't handle the pace. Up front Jezowski (KNF) took the win by a couple of lengths from Abakoumov and Degano.

1Krzysztof JezowskiKnauf Team3h48'29
2Igor AbakoumovJartazi - 7Mobiles.t.
3Enrico DeganoBarloworlds.t.
4Sean FinningSouthAustralia.com - AISs.t.
5Andrus AugAcqua & Sapone - Caffé Mokambos.t.
6Vasilis AnastopoulosTeam Vorarlbergs.t.
7Gerrit GlomserTeam Vorarlbergs.t.
8Piotr ZaradnyKnauf Teams.t.
9Eloy Teruel3 Molinos Resorts.t.
10Claudio CucinottaTeam Tenax Salmilanos.t.
19Mark CavendishTeam Sparkasses.t.


Stage 2
Hilly stage, so simmed and results

1Borut BozicPerutnina Ptuj3h39'13
2Javier Pascual RodriguezComunidad Valencianas.t.
3Jure GolcerPerutnina Ptujs.t.
4Fabio SacchiTeam Milram+ 19
5Evgeni PopovRabobank Continentals.t.
6Ivan SeledkovOmnibike Dynamo Moscows.t.
7Markus EichlerTeam Regiostrom - Sengess.t.
8Mitja MahoricPerutnina Ptujs.t.
9Björn GlasnerTeam Lamontas.t.
10Simone CadamuroTeam Milram+ 30
42Mark CavendishTeam Sparkasse+ 1'48


Stage 3
Back on the flat and it was Von Kleinsorgen (TLM), Vanthourenhout (RB3), Trofimov (ODM), Del Nero (MOL) and Kaupas (JAR) to chance their luck. As usual nothing much happened for the majority of the day.
Surprisingly the break lasted until 6km to go, surely frightening some of the peloton.

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FINISH - Today Cavendish tried to fight in the wheels but couldn't make anything stick. The battle for the win was much closer with Bozic just edging the win from Sabatini and Jezowski.

1Borut BozicPerutnina Ptuj3h11'38
2Fabio SabatiniTeam Milrams.t.
3Krzysztof JezowskiKnauf Teams.t.
4Vasilis AnastopoulosTeam Vorarlbergs.t.
5Gerrit GlomserTeam Vorarlbergs.t.
6Igor AbakoumovJartazi - 7Mobiles.t.
7Ashley HutchinsonSouthAustralia.com - AISs.t.
8Peter DawsonSouthAustralia.com - AISs.t.
9Wes SulzbergerSouthAustralia.com - AISs.t.
10Evgeni PopovRabobank Continentals.t.
18Mark CavendishTeam Sparkasses.t.


Comment
Tough opening few days. The team can't provide any real support for the mass sprint leaving it up to Mark to fight it out. Problem being that for now he doesn't have the form or experience to do so. Still there are 2 more opportunities for a result so he'll stick it out. At least the weather's nice!
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547984
Don't worry, career is just gettin started. Wink

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sutty68
The results will improve for Mark as his fitness levels get better Wink
 
Cycleman123
Not a fan of the circles, but apparently it's what you like to do. Good luck by the way Wink
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VoetsT
Cav will show his class later Wink
 
SSJ2Luigi
it feels nice to see that old rabobank jersey again, takes me back. still miss the bad graphics though Pfft
 
TheManxMissile
Jacobs Creek tour Down Under - Part 2


Stage 4
Parinussa penetrated the break for the first time for the team. With him were Wiese (TRS), von Mingerot (JAR) and Nielsen (TPH). They made a real push for the surprise win, defying the peloton all the way to the 5km mark!

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3KM to go and it's Den Bakker leading the rush. Cadamuro is in his wheel, then it's Aug, then Bozic. Cavendish fights Jezowski for that wheel and is winning the contest. Schulze stacks up behind Mark, while Abakourmov goes behind Jezowski

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1KM to go and Glosmer leads on the left. Facci went with him but both are starting to fade. Bozic leads it up the middle with Cavendish glued in his slipstream.Cadamuro, Aug and Abakoumov are all contesting the finish as well.

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FINISH Bozic is just on fire! Cavendish sticks with him for the podium along with Glosmer who went very long in the end

1Borut BozicPerutnina Ptuj3h20'31
2Mark CavendishTeam Sparkasses.t.
3Gerrit GlomserTeam Vorarlbergs.t.
4Mauro FacciBarloworlds.t.
5Igor AbakoumovJartazi - 7Mobiles.t.
6Evgeni PopovRabobank Continentals.t.
7Sven VanthourenhoutRabobank Continentals.t.
8Marlon Pérez ArangoTeam Tenax Salmilanos.t.
9Sergei KolesnikovOmnibike Dynamo Moscows.t.
10Krzysztof JezowskiKnauf Teams.t.


Stage 5
Hilly stage so a nice rest for the team.

1Javier Pascual RodriguezComunidad Valenciana3h34'14
2Maarten Den BakkerTeam Milrams.t.
3William WalkerRabobank Continental+ 10
4Hrvoje MiholjevicPerutnina Ptujs.t.
5Jure GolcerPerutnina Ptuj+ 26
6Gerrit GlomserTeam Vorarlbergs.t.
7David BlancoComunidad Valencianas.t.
8Eladio JiménezComunidad Valencianas.t.
9Cristiano SalernoTeam Tenax Salmilanos.t.
10Tomasz KiendysKnauf Teams.t.
92Mark CavendishTeam Sparkasse+ 5'04


Stage 6
The final day in Oz and Parinussa was all in to win the KoM jersey. He won both sprints to seal the jersey. His companions were von Kleinsorgen (TLM), Collingwood (TRS), McPartland (TEN), Scheirlinckx (JAR), Sabido (BAR) and Riber-Sellebjerg (RPH). They again made a great fight to survive to the 5km mark

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3KM to go and Kiendys leads out Zaradny who is in charge of Jezowski. Schulze, Bozic, Cavendish, Abakoumov and Heiny are those directly behind
Suddenly Kiendys has a gap! KNF are confused and Cavendish darts out of line sensing an opportunity....

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FINISH But smarter heads prevail. Cavendish burns out early as Glosmer narrowly beats Bozic to win the stage. The podium completed by Schulze

1Gerrit GlomserTeam Vorarlberg1h59'25
2Borut BozicPerutnina Ptujs.t.
3André SchulzeTeam Lamontas.t.
4Fabio SabatiniTeam Milrams.t.
5Enrico DeganoBarloworlds.t.
6Stefan HeinyTeam Lamontas.t.
7Eloy Teruel3 Molinos Resorts.t.
8Andrus AugAcqua & Sapone - Caffé Mokambos.t.
9Evgeni PopovRabobank Continentals.t.
10Igor AbakoumovJartazi - 7Mobiles.t.
18Mark CavendishTeam Sparkasses.t.


GC
1Javier Pascual RodriguezComunidad Valenciana19h33'14
2Jure GolcerPerutnina Ptuj+ 38
3Borut BozicPerutnina Ptuj+ 39
4Maarten Den BakkerTeam Milram+ 1'00
5David BlancoComunidad Valenciana+ 1'12
51Mark CavendishTeam Sparkasse+ 7'02


Points
1Borut BozicPerutnina Ptuj30
2Bert ScheirlinckxJartazi - 7Mobile16
3Javier Pascual RodriguezComunidad Valenciana14
16Mark CavendishTeam Sparkasse6


KoM
1Stefan ParinussaTeam Sparkasse52
2Kristoffer NielsenTeam GLS32
3Wes SulzbergerSouthAustralia.com - AIS24


Comment
Promising i guess. A podium finish shows that the raw speed is in the legs but errors in who to follow, when to sprint and the lead-out prevented anything more. These are all skills that improve with time though, whereas speed is almost impossible to teach. It marks Cavendish out as someone to watch as the season progresses.
Next Up: Tour de Langkawi
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sutty68
Oh so close to the win on stage 4 Wink
 
SSJ2Luigi
this is a 2006 database right? so why is Den Bakker wearing the Dutch NC jersey (at least I think it is) instead of van Bon (in other words: database mistake Wink

The Manx took a chance on stage 5 but it was too far out for a top 10 Frown
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VoetsT
Stage 4 was very good, but stage 5 a bit less Frown
 
TheManxMissile
I realise i havn't update this in a while now, sorry about that. Man-Game transfer season and prepping for New York amongst other things have kept me fairly busy. Will look to get back into racing and posting in April, so don't panic Wink
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