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UCI logo 2015Peter Sagan outsprints Mark Cavendish to retain the rainbow jersey
Peter Sagan of Slovakia has retained the rainbow jersey after outsprinting Mark Cavendish to the line in Doha from a select group that had formed after the race was blown apart by crosswinds in the desert. Tom Boonen of Belgium, who had predicted that the wind could be decisive and who had five team mates in the front group, was third.
The split came with around 175 kilometres left of the 257.5 kilometre race, Belgium seemingly executing their game plan to perfection by getting six men into the first echelon, who slowly reeled in the early break ahead of them on the road.
Also present were defending champion Sagan, the British pair of Cavendish and Adam Blyth, and others with their eyes on the rainbow jersey including Niki Terpstra of the Netherlands, Norway's Alexander Kristoff and Australia's Michael Matthews.
Missing out, however, were the German trio of Andre Greipel, Marcel Kittel and Tony Martin, and with the Belgians pushing the pace in the front group, any chance of getting back on had evaporated long before the end.
Some 25 or so riders were left in the front group as the entered the final circuit, and with a little over 2 kilometres left, Tom Leezer of the Netherlands chanced his arm.
Inside the final few hundred metres, it was touch and go whether he would hold on, but he was caught with the line in sight as the three men vying to add a second road world championships win to their palmares went head to head.
.@petosagan goes back to back at @UCIDoha2016!pic.twitter.com/fGOmmWKhda
— CyclingHub (@CyclingHubTV) October 16, 2016
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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I wanted Cav to win of course, but if not him then Sagan is the perfect World Champion.
Sagan is top of the UCI rankings for this year, and deserves this win and another year as world champion. Its good for the sport though, as your likely to have the world champion colours being up the front of most races next year.
Would of been nice for Cav to win, but also happy that Sagan got it.
Yes, seriously. What's with #Africa ?
Be insteresting to see which one; Sagan or Froome is better known in the wider public - but for people who follow the sport, as good as Froome is, Sagan has to be the man.
The entire UK team were up the front across the Desert and did big turns to iniate the break - which the Belgians then drove forward. I would guess that several found themselves in the red just as the Belgian team put their attack in, but at least they delivered Cav into just the right place.
Peter Sagan is one of the strongest riders around, his background mountain bikes has allowed to go from strength to strength on the road. He's the real deal in cycling. What a character as well
That was a cracking race, but Cav looked to have made a bit of a hash of the ending. Makes you feel for Adam Blythe as he put in well over 150km of work for him. Don't know what the Team Sky boys were up to. It's a shame that Gaviria crashed out too.
Cav won the silver medal in the Elite Men's World Championship. That is fucking brilliant!
What does everyone want?
Gold (and the jersey), of course! That's what I was hoping for, anyway.
Cavendish knows he could have won but made a mistake in the sprint:
"I'm a little bit disappointed. I feel like I lost gold rather than I won silver."
It will surely bug him for some time. But Sagan had as much speed as Cavendish and burst through a tiny gap on the inside.
I can't work out why people are comparing Sagan and Froome or dissing another top rider for no reason. Who let the Sun readers in?
Rowe had a puncture and I think Thomas had some kind of mechanical in the crosswinds.
Edit: Rowe's reaction on twitter:
"Personally a shit day, disappointing to puncture out the front echelon. That's our sport and sometimes it's a bitch !!!"
And Thomas:
"Gutted for Cav!! And gutted I couldn't help more, punctured as the race was splitting to bits... #echolonswaitfornoman"
yeah whatever.
Sagan is the biggest star in cycling by a mile at the moment. Shits on Froome #Africa
Binary bollocks.
What's the subtext of that hashtag?
Horses for courses; Sagan won't win a GT soon so he hardly shits on anything Froome does, or has Sagan been winning TT's I've not heard about? Sagan has a lot of hair, I will concede that.