I would obviously love to see Cav win it, but wouldn't mind at all if Tommy V managed somehow to stay away for the last lap 🙂
And now Hoogerland breaking away? Awesome 🙂
Looks like it'l be close!
Its gonna be a scrap!
exciting and available here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cycling/14975894.stm
Getting twitchy, isn't it?
un'kin-believable!!!!11
How far back was he before that sprint?! 😯
YOU BEAUTY!
What a finish!
What an exciting finish....
hero even without a train no one can touch him what speed
it looked like hed lost that sprint a dozen times by the time theyd got to 400m
YES!
The man's a legend.
CAV!! Yeah 😀
what a finish!
seems to have a sealed-off helmet.. interesting! (and sweaty)
i'll get the clingfilm out
Kin ell
Awesome finish
GET IN THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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don't want the job of awarding the bronze!
humble winning as well and thanking the team
Proper hero
World champion for Britain
Now lets rejoice.
Lovely stuff! 🙂
Get in!!!
GET IN CAV!!!
Awesome win!!!!
Awesome team performance I'm sure Wiggins has a 1200 BMW motorbike engine fitted 😯
Result!!! Great finish but how does wiggins go like that!! 😯 awesome!
The last British World Champion was in black and white...
Team Sky might be a bit useful next season 😉
you little beauty CAV,,,YEEESSSS,,,
Fantastic result!!
Considering that Cav and Greipel supposedly don't like each other it was nice to see Greiple being the first to congratulate him. Respect to you sir!
That was a proper team win
well done Cav for the win but well done to the team for not panicing and controlling the race.
That was nervewracking as hell in the final 5 km...actually make that the final 150 km 😀
Felt at times like it was Britain v the World!
Are the highlights going to be on TV?
They're on BBC2 now
Nice one.
Twice in my life time 🙂
Man I think my heart rate was 190 watching that finish!!! Awesome result, now people can stop criticizing Cav! Not the biggest fan of Wiggo but boy did he do THE Most insane big arse turn on the front, great to see GB boys working as a team..maybe the GB girls can learn something from watching that!!!
Wow that was a good race. Lots of attacking and break aways, SOOOO much better than the female elite race, which was only really a three lap race with everyone hanging about. 😐
Why don't the women attack more??????
Proud to be British and a great year for British cycling, well done Mark and the team
Who knows! They were all far too cagey and made it really dull viewing! I feel for Vos though, 2nd for the 5th year in a row, she was in bits on the podium!!! That sucks, more so than 4th for a 2nd time, hey Nicole? She had no lead out train!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
It's going to be great to see Cav in the rainbow jersey in the TdF next year.
what a great day to be a British cyclist! Cav was awesome, Wiggo an absolute beast on the last lap. By all accounts the team are already pissed, it's gonna be a big night!!!
Cavendish in 2011: 2 Giro stages, 5 Tour stages, a Tour de France green jersey and a world title.
Not a bad year, really.
Interesting to see the GB riders in skinsuits and with blocked vents/helmet covers today. More mad science from the Professor?
@bradwiggins
Cav wins, I think its safe to say tonight we are all going to get shitfaced! Lock and load
Wonder if its enough to get him sports personality of the year ....?
What a great race.
what a great day to be a British cyclist!
yes
What a great race.
+1, just watched it after getting back from work, stunning result and bigging up the team post race, well done all.
warton - Memberwhat a great day to be a British cyclist!
Cav ain't British. He is a manxman is he not and the isle of man is not a part of Britain
Just to be pedantic like.
that'll be why he rides for the GB team then
It's good to see a fellow manxman doing well at something 🙂 tj is right about the isle of man not being part of gb or uk, I am presuming rather like playing for England cav has a relative who is gb. Either that or the fact we are a crown dependency somehow allows it..
Either way get in there Cav!! 😀
[i]Cav ain't British. He is a manxman is he not and the isle of man is not a part of Britain[/i]
Cavendish won as a member of the Great Britain team, ergo saying 'what a great day to be a British cyclist' is a perfectly sensible thing to say.
Assuming he's riding under the British Cycling banner...
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Well as Cav doesn't count, seeing he's not British just a Manxman 😉 The rest of the GB team gets my vote for giving one of the greatest ever British team performances. Simply awesome 😀 😯
Breathtaking ride from Cav and the team. Wonder when the Team Sky announcement will come?
No one let anyone down on Sunday. "It was daunting," Millar said, "but everybody did their job even more than we expected." The Scot had been sharing a room with Cavendish in the team hotel. "What can you say about Cav? He's a funny little bastard. We've watched every race together in our room and every time we've watched a finish he's been off his bed, shouting: 'I promise I'm going to win on Sunday.'" The most impulsive and emotional of men but the most cold-blooded of athletes when the fires of competition are at their fiercest, Cavendish would be keeping his end of the bargain.
Cavendish dedicated "the biggest jersey you can get" to his national team, adding: "I'm limited, I can't win the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, so this is the biggest jersey I can achieve.
"I wear it on behalf of Great Britain."
Maybe you should tell him he aint British TJ.
MarkCavendish
twitpic.com/6qt98o well it's sunk in after waking up to this! Yesterday I was seriously in shock & disbelief. British World Champion!
TandemJeremy - Member
Cav ain't British....
...Just to be pedantic like
he's more British than you are Scotish 😉
If you look at the full results you can see the sacrifice the rest of the team made: Wiggins finished 3 minutes down, Millar and Hunt 8 minutes down, all presumably having gone out the back door after working themselves half to death for Cavendish....
It really was phenomenal, I was sure he had lost it with 400m to go, all of a sudden Cav seemed swamped. But he just doesn't know how to lose. Brilliant performance and the rest of the GB team put in a hell of an effoert to get him there
Wonder if its enough to get him sports personality of the year ....?
Not a chance - even if he has won almost everything it's possible for him to win this year in one of the hardest and most competitive sports going. It will be a golfist. Might make the top 3 though.
Cav ain't British.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_people
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/61
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/680/contents/made
Fabian isn't that happy
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