Pogacar soars…
to a third Tour. Tadej Pogačar joined Mark Cavendish in doing what they said couldn't be done, they said it for years, they said it before the race, they said it during the race but they both did it. read the rest of this rubbish
Tag: Mark Cavendish
It wasn’t supposed to end
like this. When Cav announced this was his last season, during the Giro, it was meant to end in glory with that record breaking 35th Tour de France stage. It almost did, but Eddy Merckx's voodoo dolls were working overtime. read the rest of this rubbish
A Giro of rain, ups, downs, heartbreak
and joy but mostly rain. A wet three weeks of racing in Italy, with a bit of sunny Switzerland, saw the first Grand Tour of the season won by just 14 seconds on the last day of GC racing, with steady Eddie Geraint Thomas just missing out. read the rest of this rubbish
No fairytale ending for Mark Cavendish this time
but it leaves an opening for a sequel. Mark Cavendish might not have managed to break Eddy Merckx's stage wins record but it shouldn't detract from the you couldn't have written it return to the greatest race, for it's greatest sprinter. read the rest of this rubbish
G was the only SPotY
option. Geraint Thomas was the only option for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year and rightfully won it. read the rest of this rubbish
“I’ve won the Tour de France man
don't know what to say.” That bad day didn't come as Geraint Thomas makes it another Brit to win the Tour de France, in a commanding performance and well deserved victory for the best rider there. read the rest of this rubbish
It’s only the end of the first week
in the Tour de France. The organisers wanted a different Tour this year, not the Sky procession, well apart from the procession of Sky wearing yellow, they got something different. read the rest of this rubbish
Team GB dust off the magic wheels to dominate the Olympic
velodrome again. Another dominant display by Great Britain in the track cycling at the Olympics, where every one of the riders that took to the track won a medal, has brought the usual sour grapes from the usual suspects. read the rest of this rubbish
The British domination of the Tour de France
continues. Yet another yellow jersey for Chris Froome, to go with seven stage victories, one third of the stages, by British riders, and the best young rider in Adam Yates, it's a British game now. read the rest of this rubbish
The British sporting summer has been just
great. England football team at the World Cup, the cricket team against Sri Lanka and now India, the rugby teams against the southern hemisphere - some say that Murray berk at Wimbledon. Now the cycling is imploding. read the rest of this rubbish