"Multiple stage wins for Mark Cavendish at this year's Tour de France" predict optimistic Bob Roll & Christian Vande Velde
CyclingSunday, 19 May 2024 at 14:00
In the farewell year of his legendary career, there is no secret about what the goal is for Mark Cavendish in 2024. The Manx Missile is searching for what would be a record-breaking 35th Tour de France win and at the recent Tour de Hongrie, Cavendish's hopes were boosted by his second win of the season.
"It was, to my eyes at least, a very impressive win in Hungary against a high-quality field of sprinters," reflected American cycling expert and ex-pro Bob Roll, in conversation with compatriot, Christan Vande Velde on NBC Sports Cycling's podcast. "How sharp his sprint was, how dynamic his pedalling motion, it was very impressive. Seeing it, it was like 'Woah, that is a fantastic sprint!' To imagine he's doing that now, with time to be even further prepared for the Tour de France with his strong leadout team, I'm giving him the edge to go one better than Eddy Merckx. I'm thinking maybe it's multiple stage wins for Mark Cavendish at this year's Tour."
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Cavendish beat some quality riders such as the likes of Dylan Groenewegen and Sam Welsford in Hungary. As always at the Tour de France however, the best of the best congregate and as such, it will be tougher again to secure himself a 35th victory. Assessing the 38-year-old's chances, Vande Velde admits he was surprised by Cavendish's choice to skip the Giro d'Italia.
"He loves to put a number on his back. He loves race days, especially at a Grand Tour such as the Giro d'Italia, where he has had so much success in the past," the American, 4th placed finisher in the GC at the 2008 Tour de France explains. "But, having that win takes a ton off his shoulders and a ton off his team's shoulders as well. And he beat Dylan Groenewegen so yeah, it's a big deal."
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- Maybe if you see the results Pog has under his belt is the reason he makes decisions within the team. You can always make comments after the race or incident has occured. Hindsight fantastic. I feel the comments are sour grapes by Dekker crap rider when a pro and now sitting in the chair complaining. Would not even mind if it was good journalism even .move on nothing to see here old news.paultryan200204-06-2025
- Juan must have searched a beehive and stuck his face in it so he wouldn't have to work for his team-mate in pink 😄😄😄
maria2024202404-06-2025 - Honestly Del Toro didn't act like had the jersey at all. Was so many times on stages prior he got Gee or someone else to chase when it was 100% his teams responsibility.HoopoeChai04-06-2025
- Would others want him though? Hes not really getting the results needed plus we have all seen Pidcock performance since left INIOS and its basically the same situation.HoopoeChai04-06-2025
- Vingegaard normally only has one goal: TDF I doubt if he'll win Dauphiné.Ride197404-06-2025
- I think Del Toro was tired, and he was probably going to lose the Giro anyway on that long climb. But he had the privilege of choosing which one was going to win: Yates or Carapaz. If he followed Yates, Carapaz would get his free ride up, then attack at the end. If he followed Carapaz, Yates was going to run off like he did.Ride197404-06-2025
- We don't know the whole story in it but don't create some issues Thomas Dekker. I know you're also has a Rabobank-Michael Rasmussen biological passport issue as well in your 2007 days.
James2631804-06-2025 - The last post is spot on.....the UAE team had the resposibility of straightening their boy, seeing as he was letting a giro he had in the bag go up the road. Remember Yates was virtual leader by only about 17 seconds at the top of Finestre so that giro was still salvageable even if Yates linked with Wout, they still had Sestriere to cut into Yates's lead if they had not brought him back at that point. So yes...UAE DS blew it.Zone0Rider04-06-2025
- The Ayuso pile-on get's a bit ridiculous at times. Ayuso didn't lose the Giro for UAE. It was crappy strategy by UAE. And maybe Yates just being stronger. UAE had by far the strongest team even after losing Ayuso and Vine, but didn't use them effectively. For example why wasn't McNulty sent ahead as a satellite rider on Stage 20. If Van Aert made it over the hill so could have Mcnulty. Problem is McNulty was too high on the GC so he wouldn't have been let go. So why the heck was McNulty chasing a meaningless top 10 on GC instead of shedding some time so he could be rested and useful for his leader? Why was Adam Yates invisible for much of the race? Why did it sometimes feel like Majka was the only one all in on supporting Del Toro?mobk04-06-2025
- Unfortunately the US audience get the Dumb and Dumber combo of Bob Roll and C Van de Velde as commenators via Peacock!frieders304-06-2025
As you see, it gets them into the news, free publicity for the network.
Learning from Fox, the more outrageous the stuff you claim, the more views you get and from those, certain types will stick around.
It looks that way lmfao
Did they smoke too weed or drank too much booze during that interview?
These two need to be drug tested if they think Cav will win multiple times! These two are the worst commentators on bike racing!