Tour de France 2024 - this time it’s personal

Scheldeprijs, KBK, that's what you call really scraping the barrel. By the way Froome also has a Non-Yellow competition jersey from each GT as well. KOM from Tour, Giro, points from Vuelta.

It really boils down to Cav, his World Title, Milan-San Remo, and his GT sprints wins versus Froome, 4 Tours, Giro and Vuelta plus GT podiums. Winning the biggest bike and most important race in the World 4 times should make it a foregone conclusion, but apparently not.

For the record, the Tour has a co-efficent rating system for Tour stages to decide time-cuts with a rating of 1-6 on toughness, with 1 being the easiest and 6 the toughest. Naturally enough, the flat stages are rated 1 with hard mountain stages/TTs rated 5/6. Froome has 7 Tour stages and they are all TTs/Mountain stages. When you apply the co-efficent values, Froome has a higher score than Cavendish. Says it all really, one competes for the meaningless stages that serve no real purpose other than to get the race from A to B, and the other is racing/competing when **** gets real with the endgoal of winning "the" most prestigious prize. A bit like comparing the Champions league and Europa league.

and comparing Cav and Froome is like comparing apples and oranges - both absolutely world class and both the best to have ever done it but you can’t compare the 2 imo

i think that thought was on his mind as he neared the finish line, he didnt try and keep remco away and was happy at the back of the 5/6 riders that finished at the same time.

He threw the first punch at jonas and it was a good idea to test him early in the tour to see how his fitness actually is. Good to see jonas is up for it because it looks like outside of pog and jonas the others wont challenge for GC and if jonas wasnt able to respond today it could be tour practically over.

The battles ahead between them are going to be fascinating

If it suits Pog will give it away again. He won't be too pushed chasing down a breakaway on stage 4.

Well there is more to the green jersey than winning sprint stages, otherwise Cavendish would have won more than 2. Right?

How childish are you exactly? People are not allowed to objectively evaluate a rider on their achievements and put some context to them. You seem to address very little of what I say, but sure do a lot of whining about it.

is cav vs froome the cycling version of ROG vs sexton?

POG needs to be carefull as well and pick his moments, hes already got a grand tour in his legs, and a dose of covid and that could be telling over the next couple of weeks. You would expect a similar tactic tuesday, yates to go full out at some stage about halfway or 3/4 way up the Galibier and pog to attack with 1 or 2 km to the top to see if he can get a gap.

Hes got a big day coming up Tuesday and Friday but he should be in a team bubble the rest of the week to conserve as much as possible.

he has also been happy to let someone else wear it and deal with the media commitment's that go with it