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发帖数: 3290 | 1 Cavendish是2007年首次参加环法的。
Obviously he was very nervous in 2007. His teammate Roger Hammond who hadn't
ridden the Tour then tried to calm him by saying that it was the same
riders Mark had already been racing against and often beaten since the start
of the season, often when Mark wasn't nearly as fit.
Right? Sorry, Roger, wrong! Cavendish replied,
It was faster, a lot faster, 5 kilometer an hour faster - and it didn't
matter whether is was uphill, downhill, round corners, on narrow roads or
wide ones. Yes, they were the same riders, the 189 best in the world, and
yeah, I'd already beaten most if not all of them at some point or another,
but not all in the same race. In no other race had every bloke in the
peloton trained to peak for precisely the second they rolled off that start-
ramp in the prologue. In no other race could a good ride, any day out of
twenty-one, change a fella's life. The stakes, the noise, the hype, the
adrenaline - it was all just more: five kilometers an hour more. |
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