He does it again 33 career stage just 1 short of equalling record.
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He does it again 33 career stage just 1 short of equalling record.
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He’s a beast. But what a team he has around him.
That team lead out for him was textbook, incredible from all of them.
I've watched all of his tour wins, it's an incredible achievement and a great comeback story. The teams he has had nursing him to to the line have largely been second to none and deserve almost as much credit.
I wish I liked him a bit more though. He seems like a bit of a tw@t
He was certainly dislikeable when he was younger, and he has admitted that he was a bit of a cock years ago. However, he comes over very well these days in interviews, just look at the post stage win interviews and he is clearly very grounded these days and his respect for Le Tour and appreciation of his team mates is obvious. Hopefully he’ll equal the record tomorrow, and break it in Paris, if not before.
I would love to see him equal the record, looks like it won't be today unfortunately.
Couldn't believe what I was seeing yesterday with Van Aert. After being beaten by half a wheel by Cav in a sprint the day before, he goes and wins after a double trip up the Ventoux. Super human
Record equalled.
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Should be nailed on for SPOTY, but he’ll be beaten by an English diver, and I don’t mean Tom Daley!
I think he might actually beat the record on stage19 before Paris, but to do it Paris would be so good! He seems so grounded these days and has so much respect for the race, and seems genuinely surprised at his success this year, but, and it’s a big but, I wonder if he might just back himself to win in Paris and not try to beat the record before. Altho having said that I just think he loves winning at Le Tour so expect him to go for 36!
He was shattered today but another great effort by quick step team and Cav.
Surely nobody will want to be the party pooper and stop number 35 ?
What a job by DQS, equal to HTCs efforts. They’d lost that but still pulled it back.
34, unbe****inglievable.
Puts the antics of footballers into perspective, today there was a crash at 70kmh, rudest went off the edge of the road into a ravine, their fall stopped only by hitting a tree. They just hit back on their bikes and carried on,no fuss. A few years ago Geraint Thomas hit a telegraph pole at speed and fractured his pelvis, 3 weeks later he was riding into Paris having competed the tour. These guys are phenomenal beings.
If he hadn’t crashed on first day in 2014, been elbowed out by Sagan and suffered ill health he’d have put the record out of site years ago. Merckx was a beast, and there will always be suspicions, but he could win any type or race, which fir me makes what Cav has done even better, he only has one weapon in his armoury.
He’s beaten not just 1,but 3 generations of sprinters, there are world class sprinters whose careers started after his first win and who retired before his most recent.
He has won around 1 in 6 of the stages he has riden in the Tour. Nobody else comes remotely close. Be particularly nice if he breaks the record in Paris.