Originally Posted by
Stadjer
What politics would that be? Only the British journalists are as disrespectful to claim Cavendish has equalled Merckx. Cavendish is a sprinter, winning stages is his job. If in the process of trying to win stages he would pick up let's say 5 GC TdF wins we would be talking about equalling Merckx, and in that case rightly so. If Cavendish would have won, it would be seen as a testament of how good he is in his specialism, nothing less but certainly nothing more.
None of the British journalists are saying anything other than Cav equalling the 34 TDF stage win record and being the best sprinter of all time. One is a fact and the other hard to dispute. Nobody is dumb enough to compare Cav with Merckx as a GC rider. There is no disrespect, Merckx is widely considered by the British journalists to be the best rider of all time. I haven’t read anything to the contrary anyway.