BEST SPRINT FINISHES OF 2024 🔥 ｜ Eurosport Cycling

Mirko, it's just a couple of wheels behind Cavendish. It's 750 metres to the line. A reminder that they're approaching the five final 100 metres into a headwind and 500 metres against the wind is a long 500 metres. Left-hand side, you can see it going. They still can't see the finish. That comes with 250 metres just left to go. On the left-hand side, it's Mark Peterson's team who are starting the sprint. His team is behind now. It's now Mathieu van der Poel on the right-hand side. There is Mark Cavendish following the wheels. He's going to have to go off the wheel of Ackermann if he's going to do it. Marijn van den Berg is there as well. Only now they will start to see the finish line. It's slightly uphill and there is Mark Cavendish. There is Mark Cavendish through the centre. He's hit the front here. Mark Cavendish is there. There's a crash behind. Mark Cavendish. This is history. First, there was Merckx. Now, it's Mark Cavendish standing on the shoulders of giants. The Tour de France and the greatest of all time. Van Dijk leads it out on the front. Pfeiffer-Georgi is at second wheel. They're going to get the bell this time. Ellen Van Dijk leading it out. She's looking around for her teammates. Pfeiffer-Georgi is through to the front. Ellen Van Dijk on the inside. It's Lidl-Trek, DSM-Foenig, Visma-Lisebaek, FDJ-Suez, SD Werks, Pro Time. And Lidl-Trek on the back. Capecchi getting boxed very, very slightly. Pfeiffer-Georgi on the inside. Now, looking to try and launch this one down the back straight. Elisa Balsamo comes over the top. Looking to try and become the second Italian to take this one. Vos up the inside. Balsamo goes around the outside. Here comes Capecchi. Georgi on the inside. Marianne Vos comes towards the line. Here comes Lotte Capecchi over the top. It's the rainbow jersey in the Roubaix Velodrome. Lotte Capecchi writes her own piece of history here for SD Werks Pro Time. Following the wheels is Walscheid. Along on the right-hand side as we look at it as well, his teammate Ewan. Is it going to be a comeback for him? We look around. We wait and we look. Cimolais there, but where's Gaviria? This is Holly Vader now on the back and on their train. You can see winning the corner there. You've got the main man from UAE, but there's a chink to the left, a move to the right, a problem and some riders had to stop their sprint. Consonni trying to get on the wheel now. Cimolais leading them into there. Again, there's elbow stuff. It's so messy at the end of the Giro d'Italia this, but there's one final turn to go. And look at Medlir hit it on the cobbles now. Tim Medlir coming off his wheel is Milan. He can't do it, can he? It's Medlir on the front trying to equal things up. Milan trying to get in front through the center. Milan's there, but it's Medlir. 3-3. Tim Medlir wins in Rome. It's a third stage win and one that will go down forever. Here in the Tour de Romandie, the stage win is going to go to SD Works Pro Time, but where is it going to go? Is it going to be Davy Vollering? Is it going to be Lotta Capecchi? We'll expect a straight-out battle between these two. 200 meters to go now up towards the top. Vollering on the front, looks back over the shoulder. Out of the saddle, shifts through the gears. Capecchi poised and ready, looking to try and come off the wheel of her teammates. No gifts given here. Vollering and Capecchi are going to throw the bikes to the line. Oh, so close. It looked like a photo finish. Echoes of Strada Bianche, that one, we would say. You've got Bredevold and Franzi Koch in that German Champs jersey is going to hand over now to Pfeiffer Georgi. The British champ now comes through to try and lead this one out for Charlotte Ecole. She's got Raquel Barbieri locked in and ready, right on the wheel, but here come SD Works down the left-hand side of the road. Big move now. Lorena Wiebes is locked and loaded right on the wheel. Blanka-Vach fighting for supremacy here at the front. Barbieri now starts to make that move for the team of DSM Fermanich-Postenel. Lorena Wiebes has got an issue here. Wiebes has got an issue. It's going to be Barbara Gorischke that takes off here. Charlotte Ecole comes off the wheel. Charlotte Ecole comes through. Lorena Wiebes lost her chain or something, but it's Charlotte Ecole that comes through to take the first stage here in The Hague. Charlotte Ecole of DSM Fermanich-Postenel takes the stage victory. 500 meters to go. It's Vingegaard at the front. Pogacar, who has never lost a two-up sprint in his professional career. Six, seven percent all the way to the line in Le Lyon. Almost five hours in the saddle. No breakaway allowed to go since the start. In fact, it should have been today a breakaway bonanza. But in the end, a massive attack in central France has sent the GC riders to the top of the charts. Will it be Vingegaard? Will it be Pogacar with today's number one? It's Vingegaard at the front. Pogacar waits, stalks his prey. Ever so closer. And we know he has the kick. We know he has the speed. Now he goes. Today, Pogacar trying to get into slipstream, but Vingegaard is hanging on. He's going to have to give it a second go here. Pogacar trying to come around. Vingegaard's holding it. It needs another effort. Vingegaard, so, so good. Vingegaard to the line. And look at that. What a story that is. Finally, Pogacar is beaten in a two-up sprint. And Jonas Vingegaard is very much present and correct at this Tour. In the fight, takes the stage. It's a miraculous comeback from where he was. So, Pfeiffer, Giorgi up towards the front. The British champion. I'm seeing Guy Riallini a little bit far back. Giorgi right on the front here, looking to try and lead this one out here for Riquely Barbieri. It's SD Works that have got the front. Tiff Cromwell trying to get in on the action here for Canyon SRAM. Laetitia Paternoster for Liv J. Koelula. Poised and ready. It's Barbara Gwarecki, though, that is setting up. She will hand over now to the world champion Lotte Capecchi, who will launch it down the center of the road. Consoni goes left. It's Capecchi on the front. Consoni moves up here. And now they take off. It's Riquely Barbieri straight down the center with Wiebes. Lorena Wiebes comes through. Win number one of the season for Team SD Works. Wiebes delivers yet again for Team SD Works. No sign of Groenewegen just for the time being either. Waiting for those red shoulders to show themselves. Big pick up here. Fabio Jakobsen still waiting for Sam Bennett to launch. He may well do so right now. And it's a drag to the line. And suddenly Mads Pedersen finding himself in a superb position right now. Oh, this is what you want. But to lease on his case, here comes the Belgian champion. Gaviria is also in the frame here. We said sometimes he comes very, very good. Germain is on the barriers here. It's going to be a three-up throw to the line. Oh, Bini has done it. That is amazing. Bini and Germain wins it for Intermarche 1T. That is absolutely magnificent. And we will hand out our congratulations to all who made that through. What a dramatic finale that was. And Bini and Germain makes the very best of it. Ashley Moolman-Pasio is right there. But if they take this any further, it's going to come down to a sprint. And Lorena Wiebes and Marianne Vos are both there. But Damie Vollering is driving this one on here for SD Werks. They know that they've got the potential winner in here in Lorena Wiebes. Chabbe moves up for Kanyon Schramm. This is a lead out now from Damie Vollering. 500 meters to go for Vollering. Here come the team of Wisma-Lise Beidt. They've got Marianne Vos further down the group. Anna Henderson is right in there. Juliette Labus, can anyone launch a move? Or is it going to be a big classic win here for Lorena Wiebes? Van Acht leading out here for Vos. Longo Borghini is there and poised and ready. Longo Borghini's got Wiebes right on the barriers. Lorena Wiebes trying to come through. Longo Borghini is there. Wiebes gets some clear road ahead of her. Lorena Wiebes with Vos challenging. Oh, did Marianne Vos steal it on the line? Lorena Wiebes celebrated. What a finish. She's got it. She's celebrating, I think. Oh, they looks like it. Look at that. Let's have a look at the photo. Marianne Vos steals it on the line from Lorena Wiebes. What a win. The overhead shot here. Wiebes celebrates. Vos throws the bike at the line and takes the victory.