Dr Hutch

I very much enjoyed watching Mark Cavendish winning some stages at the Tour of Turkey last week. The best bit was the joyous irony of almost every cycling journalist and fan with a social media account using, almost as one, the phrase, “Form is temporary; class is permanent” to describe Cav’s return to… well, actually it would be form.

The moment for praising someone’s class is when the form isn’t there. In this instance it would have meant rather more a couple of years ago, when Cavendish was fighting through a lingering illness that would have nudged almost any