No problem focusing on the Sprinters jersey if you have the men to help - there's nothing wrong with the Eisel-Renshaw-Cav part of the train it just lacks a little something more.

Would hope they'll let Mick Rogers loose when it comes to the mountains though and they have a good young rider in the shape of Tony Martin.

Well it's obviously short of one in Adam Hansen.

Wonder what Andre Greipel was thinking yesterday?

Cav's got one at last.

Presumably not flicking the Vs this time?

Not this time no

Good to see Cav bouncing back today. Although I think it is fair to say that green has gone. Showing he is made of better stuff than most British sportstars though, takes guts to come back like that just 24 hours after a poor performance.

As a mate of mine put it "Good to see it really matters. Let's hope the England football team were watching. Really shows the difference and the degree to which some athletes care more about the sport than the pay packet..."

Renshaw. Take a bow son. Superb work in the build up to that one. Looked like Garmin had made a bit of a gap, but he just barged his way through with his shadow in tow and then bang, gone, over. Sensational.

It was a sensational lead out from Renshaw. Garmin looked to have it set up perfectly with 500m to go but he set up Cav for a relatively comfortable victory.

What a great job Mark Renshaw has done for Cav these last couple of days and nice to see it being recognised

Mark Renshaw is a beast of a lead out man, just look at the last stage of the Tour last year. He could have won that stage for himself if he hadn't pulled Cav with him, they were miles clear. In fact if it was anything but the Tour, I would expect Cav to gift him a stage at some point.

Cav summed it up after the finish, saying that the squad maybe are one or two men light - as a few enlightened punters on here have pointed out too, I should add - but when Renshaw's in that sort of form it doesn't really matter

Dominant ride by Chavanel today and he's back in yellow. That'll help eradicate the memory of that damn [ipavé[/i that screwed him up so much.

eurosport kept saying similar things. no ones mentioning that he's only been in yellow because everyone else sat up on monday

Fair point, but not everyone has to bow to the will of Cancellara