Cavendish shrugs off previous night's crash to win Derny race at Gent Six
'I'm a bitꦯ banged up but I feel OK' s🐈ays British rider on day 2

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Cavendish was able to bounce back from 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:his crash on the opening night of the 2019 Gent Six to win the second Derny race of the♉ evening on Wednesday night.
The British rider was forced to sit out the first Madison event on Tuesday evening after crashing in the one-lap time trial, with it having a🔯ppeared that his back wheel🍌 had slid out from underneath him.
that his crash was down to a new bike position that he'd been trying."I'm a bit banged up after yesterda🍃y, obviously, but I feel OK – thank you," the 34-year-old said in the video interview.
"It's a complicated story, but basically my position's changed; my weight's a lot more forward, and actually I hadn't done any test runs on a flying lap, and my weight was just too far on the front, and I just could𝓰n't turn the bike," he explained.
"Going around the banking, I knew half a second before that I was fucked, really. I was still above the red [line], and ౠI knew I was going down. It's a tight banking, you know? It's a real tight track; you really have to steer the bike, and I couldn't steer back," explained Cavendish. "I knew I was going to come down, so I could prepare for it, so I've come off a bit better. But it's not ideal, that's for sure."
Asked whether he was disappointed not to be able to show his good form, having 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:finished second overall with partner Owain Doull at the Six Day 🥂London at the end of last month, Cavendish was confident that he'd be able to sh🐭rug off the crash.
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"There are still five days to do that," he said. "Gent is the hardest Six Day. It's the Tour de France of track cycling. I'm always eager to show, but it's not easy to show. You have to be in your top form and have everything go right, anꦅd then y🌠ou can fight for the win."
Indeed, Gent partner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Iljo Keisse would go on to win the Super Sprint on Wednesday night before Cavendish then caඣme up trumps to win the Derny race. Keisse and Cavendish – w🌸ho won the Gent Six when they last rode it as a pair in 2014 – now sit sixth overall (out of 14 teams), on 58 points and a lap down on current leaders Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt of Germany, who have 59 points.
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