Tour de France 2011

[usav]

Congrats to Mark Cavendish on being the first UK winner of the Green Jersey (and on winning the final stage once more)

Ahem.  He's not from the UK.

Ok, British then.

[UK Redsox]

Congrats to Mark Cavendish on being the first UK winner of the Green Jersey (and on winning the final stage once more)

Ahem.  He's not from the UK.

Apologies

I actually did a quick check on the IOM's status and read UK. I guess that my source was wrong.

Can we agree on "British" ?


BTW, what about the IOW, Shetland, Lundy etc. Are those in the UK ? They're not on/in the "Great Britain" part of "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"

[Jon Crofts]

Congrats to Mark Cavendish on being the first UK winner of the Green Jersey (and on winning the final stage once more)

Ahem.  He's not from the UK.

Apologies

I actually did a quick check on the IOM's status and read UK. I guess that my source was wrong.

Can we agree on "British" ?


BTW, what about the IOW, Shetland, Lundy etc. Are those in the UK ? They're not on/in the "Great Britain" part of "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"

IOM has it's own Parliament, The Tinwald IIRC, all the others are just islands.

[TopDeck113]

Cav's development in his early days was under the auspices of British Cycling.

[lovejoy]

... at T mobile??!!

[TopDeck113]

No, on the track prior to that.

[TopDeck113]

In addition to the Green Jersey, this afternoon Cav won the World Road Race Championship in Denmark.

An outstanding achievement and the first winner from these islands since Tom Simpson in 1965.  On the back of that, Simpson went on to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.  By rights - and barring a last minute drop goal by an Englishman in the Rugby World Cup final or an orchestrated campaign by the supporters of Man Utd for Rooney - Cav should do the same. 

[stubbsyandy]

What a superb race and what a finish from Cav!!

[cdbearsfan]

I don't know too much about cycling but I reckon winning the World Championship and the Green Jersey in the same year is a fantastic achievement. He should really win Sports Personality of the Year now but I bet he doesn't.

[N'Rexy]

What a ride by the whole team. Bossed it all day and that's a great feat.

We also finished top of the World Champs medal table 2 golds, 2 silvers, 2 bronzes.

We are officially the best cycling nation on earth!

[usav]

I don't know too much about cycling but I reckon winning the World Championship and the Green Jersey in the same year is a fantastic achievement. He should really win Sports Personality of the Year now but I bet he doesn't.

Coudln't agree more, but you know it will be Rooney or some twat like that .

[SteveN]

The whole GB Team were superb, Miler called the tactics correctly and Wiggins put in a magnificant performance and Cav was Cav- a legend.

Cavendish very rarely chokes, the expectation is that he will win every significant bunch sprint finish and he does - pampered "golden generation" footballers please note.

The GB team and Cavendish should be a shoe in for Team and Sports Personality of the Year, but it probably won't happen.

[Dave Cooper please]

Note how Cav, in his post-rate interviews, rarely used the word 'I'. It was all "We did superbly, the team were fantastic, we raced perfectly." He is by far the fastest sprinter out there but he knows he needs his team to deliver him to the finish.

[Dave Cooper please]

I don't know too much about cycling but I reckon winning the World Championship and the Green Jersey in the same year is a fantastic achievement. He should really win Sports Personality of the Year now but I bet he doesn't.

The BBC don't show cycling so he won't get plugged.

[lovejoy]

It was a team effort. Wiggins cycled like a monster.

Too much prominent Sky advertising on kits if you ask me though.