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Cavendish wins
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Yay. I was getting worried about him.
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He was in danger of becoming a likeable character???
Yes people like Cipollini had arrogance by the bucketload as well, but he had a certain elan and panache to pull it off...
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Not a cavendish fan...
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Well I like him.
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"Not a cavendish fan..."
"Well I like him."
That's what I like about this forum...
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I've been growing to dislike him over the past few months, but the emotion he showed on the podium yesterday (the full waterworks) won me over again.
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but the emotion he showed on the podium yesterday (the full waterworks) won me over again.
Oh you mean when he was greeting like an bairn...heh heh. Seriously though folks You can't take away the fact that he's a brilliant sprinter and he's obviously got a lot on his shoulders at the moment. I was really happy for him yesterday he just needs learn to take the rough with the smooth.
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Great finish today!!
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Cav is an amazing talent and all his boyish personality traits just show that he is truly passionate about the sport he competes in. I don't really think it matters that much that he sticks his fingers up in the Tour of Romandie, or throws his bike and helmet about after Wednesday's finish.
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Very few likeable Tour winners. THey are focussed on only one thing, their lives are consumed by it and the drug use has altered their brain chemistry.
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Alledgedly
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Yes of course, some of them are such athletes that they have super human powers of recovery and then there is Floyd Landis demonstrating the pharmaceutical bounce. Big Ed once lost a stage and he was so annoyed that the next day he just went out there and blasted form the start, and for some reason, even tho he had recouped the time and was winning the stage by miles he just couldn't stop, he was so pumped up and in the zone he failed to notice the rather obvious statement he was making. This was collectively interpreted as Big Ed just proving a point as of course he was very anti-drugs.
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I like to read cycling biographies and I have read quite a few. So far only Tommy Simpson has come across as likeable. I haven't read Boy Racer yet though, I'm not sure I want to know!
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likeable winners at anything might be quite rare? loveable losers more common? John McEnroe quite an amusing commentator but Superbrat on court etc Ballesteros in good mood/ young blood was likeable champion. Vulnerable winners? How common?
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And again
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Mark Cavendish's third stage win of the 2010 Tour de France was overshadowed when HTC team-mate Mark Renshaw was disqualified for head-butting.
"http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8826472.stm
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Again
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That was a really superb finish on the Champs Elysees. Great stuff.
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"That was a really superb finish on the Champs Elysees. Great stuff."
Indeed
All his stage wins -
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He flew across the finish line like a genetically modified Manx Cat!
I think that must rate as one of the best sprint finishes ever.
Watched the round up on ITV4 so feel quite knowledgeable...Posted 13 years ago # -
If he hadn't been so completely out of it in the first few days he would have cycled off with the green jersey. Apparently, he has finished his romance with Miss Paraguay and been back to Isle of Man to visit his brother doing a six stretch for importing coke.
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I've never imported Coke but I have been drinking it for the last few days since number one son's chum told me that Fanta and Lilt have fish gelatine in them.
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fish gelatine? Does son's chum mean ising glass finings made from swim bladder of the cod/sturgeon and found in many popular beverages (well guinness, various beers) or does he mean beef/pork gelatine used to filter other drinks such as sherry/wine?
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Number one son's chum didn't know why there weren't on the veggie list, he works in McDs, so I checked it out and the Googles said it was fish gelatine.
http://www.vegetarian-gourmet.com/fishy_fanta.html
http://www.gmwa.org.uk/foodguide2/index.php?page=viewquestion&id=160
http://www.veggiewines.co.uk/popularmixers.htm
Isinglass I knew about but don't drink beer/wine/spirits so I'm not bothered. My vegan hill walking chum seems to ignore it...
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Ahh McDonald's, that explains it. Everyone else gets their gelatine from a pig or a cow but they extract it from the leetle fishes. I bet Fanta in the real world outside of McDonalds does not have fish in it [but then I checked your reference and there is fish in everything, or molluscs].
My vegan friend also draws the line at ising glass finings. Obviously, he would go for beer without it but it is really only the co-operative that will label bevvy as non-vegetarian.
Picked some wild raspberries out at carnwath today (quite windy on the way out but blown back). Exchanged nod with guy from Alpine Bikes who has grown a beard.
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Uni Cafe for lunch but had the same wind as you.
Was this the Alpine guy who used to work in Dales?
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Uni Cafe - how much is Spag Ball now? was £1.37 in my day with cappucino 30p and 2 oz of sports mixtures 16p and the small cone off the son with the bad elvis wig 20p. So a slap up meal for less than two quid but it was 100 years ago.
THe Edinburgh Alpine guys used to work in Bike Co-op I believe. THe bearded one is quite thin, with strawberry blond hair and now pretty good beard.
Same wind - well the Strathclyde Passenger Transport used to run their big orange buses to Carnwath which was always a sight to behold 20 miles short of Edinburgh but then Saughton Jail has more than 50% of its inmates coming from The Dear Green Place
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