discussion Sir Mark Cavendish

[Jim R]

Recently knighted, Sir Mark Cavendish, has today won his 35th Tour de France stage. The greatest sprinter of all time. He had shared the record with the Belgian Eddie Merckz but today his win means the record is all his.
Congratulations on a truly incredible career and a record which, in all probability, will never be broken.
And he's British :smiling3:

 

[Dave Ward]

And he's British :smiling3:

...............well, a Manxman
Dave

 

[Guest]

He had shared the record with the Belgian Eddie Merckz but today his win means the record is all his.

So now he can make a claim along the same lines as Noël Vantyghem:

Together with Eddy Merckx, I won all the Classics to be won. I, Paris-Tours, he, the rest.

(because Paris-Tours is the only Classic Merckx never won).

 

[Guest]

Recently knighted, Sir Mark Cavendish, has today won his 35th Tour de France stage. The greatest sprinter of all time. He had shared the record with the Belgian Eddie Merckz but today his win means the record is all his.
Congratulations on a truly incredible career and a record which, in all probability, will never be broken.
And he's British :smiling3:

A well done to him. And well deserved.

 

[Andy the Sheep]

Numbers are in favour of Sir Mark Cavendish or Cav as his team mates call him, but his victories are all sprints while Eddie "the cannibal" Mercks won most of his stages leaving the rest lagging behind by meters, seconds or minutes. Anyway, a sprinter like Cavendish is something the cycling world won't see for many many years on. Chapeau!

 

[Miko]

Numbers are in favour of Sir Mark Cavendish or Cav as his team mates call him, but his victories are all sprints while Eddie "the cannibal" Mercks won most of his stages leaving the rest lagging behind by meters, seconds or minutes. Anyway, a sprinter like Cavendish is something the cycling world won't see for many many years on. Chapeau!

Well done Cav, nice to have a Brit at the top

Miko (Eddie Mercks is twenty per cent of the answer to the ultimate quiz question, 'Name five famous Belgians'?)

 

[Guest]

Another, if you’re talking sportsmen, would be Raymond Ceulemans.

Who?

The man who has more world championship titles than probably anyone else, ever, in anything.

 

[Jim R]

Miko (Eddie Mercks is twenty per cent of the answer to the ultimate quiz question, 'Name five famous Belgians'?)

We're getting off topic but Audrey Hepburn was Belgian. Well she was born Edda van Heemstra Hepburn- Ruston in Brussels. There's a plaque on her house. Now you can't get more famous than Audrey :tongue-out3:

 

[Guest]

She was born in Brussels, but had the British nationality because her father was British and her mother, Dutch, but Dutch law only allowed passing nationality on through the father so she didn’t have double nationality even if she considered herself half-Dutch. Her name would also not have included Van Heemstra, as that was her mother’s surname, and again, her official name would have been given name(s) plus her father’s family name. Which, looking it up, was Audrey Kathleen Ruston.

 

[Miko]

Another, if you’re talking sportsmen, would be Raymond Ceulemans.

Who?

The man who has more world championship titles than probably anyone else, ever, in anything.

If we have to say'who? ' then that doesn't qualify under the definition of' famous'

 

[Guest]

That depends, of course, on what you’re interested in