So another Tour of Britain day and another controlling ride by Sky. A break went to mop up the intermediate points and bonuses and then the team containing the World Champion and Tour de France winner stepped up and blew the peloton apart to bring the break-away back. This lined it all up for a sprint (is there a stage that they can’t make a sprinters’ stage) on the seafront at Blackpool. As Wiggins led the race hard in the rain the outcome became less and less in doubt and Cavendish fired through to make it two wins in two days.
With a win and the time bonuses he gathered, Cavendish has had to give up his World Champion’s jersey in favour of the race leader’s golden one for today. I can only imagine this would give him a bit of mixed feelings in the last week he gets to wear the rainbow stripes.
Get a whole lot less work done for the rest of the week by sneakily watching it unfold here.
Elsewhere the sport of buying more and more expensive kit in order to win (also known as “Triathlon”) was shaken to its very core by a guy completing the Nations’s Triathlon in the States on a city hire bike from Washington D.C. Having not even bought his bike and therefore undermined the whole point of triathlon I imagine there was a fair amount of discussion over whether his result could stand, but I applaud him.
Finally it’s time to start getting excited (as if there hadn’t been enough to get worked up about this year) about RedBull Rampage. It’s all going off on the 5th to the 7th October and the first pictures of the course are sneaking through. It’s unlikely to disappoint.
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