[jyl]

****in’ A! Cav did it!

So many riders congratulated him, and he found and put his arm around the breakaway rider - really nice to see.

The overhead shot was cool. His team did a good leadout, dropped him in P5, then Cav came up the outside followed by Bouhanni, hung in the wheel of the guy (Phillipsen) who had taken the lead, picked his moment, came around and accelerated with authority to a decisive win. Bouhanni couldn’t come around Cav but looks like he got second.

Supposedly his new coach at DQS has been training Cav for pure speed rather than climbing. That makes sense as they didn’t expect to be sending him to any Grand Tours. He didn’t get any altitude training. That’s feels like the year when Cav went to the Tour and the Olympics, had a lot of track training rather than training to get through the Alps. This raises the question of whether he can survive the mountain stages and get to Paris. Some expect him to pull out mid-Tour or to miss the time cut on a climby stage. Anyone looked at the route profiles and have a guess at how many sprint stages there are before the sprinters start struggling with time cuts?